- * Indra Kupferschmid ist Typografin und Professorin an der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte.
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- Udo Jürgens – Indra
- I had never loved Helvetica
- Live Type Research in Barcelona
- Typeradio Interview
- Students and font licenses
- Auto-optical
- The task of the designer is sometimes also to prevent things
- Mike
- Things in Use
- Die Römische Linkskursive
- hurst
- Typographic Chinese Whispers
- Sarre by Sascha Timplan
- Publishing
- My German Reunification
- The Ideal Type Newsletter
- End of Saarbatical
- I hacked my Messages
- Discounts
- Taking Over Type Foundries
- Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009
- Typographers are scholars
- Alastair Johnston rants about Helvetica
- The Hamilton Woodtype Museum is the coolest place in type world!
- Notes from Lyon
- Type used in Germany’s best designed books of 2012
- On Responsive Typography
- Multi-axes type families
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not
- sans serif
- Fonts and intellectual property
- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
- Font Shopping 2011
- Underused Gems Revisited
- ATypI Konferenz Leipzig 2000
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About
Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer and teacher based in Bonn and Saarbrücken. After studying visual communication at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and with Fred Smeijers in the Netherlands, she founded her own studio mainly working in publication design; research projects on architecture and housing; typeface development for print, packaging, consumer-product interfaces and electronic devices.
Since 1997 she has been teaching typography and type design at several design schools, and since 2006, she has been a professor at HBKsaar, University of Fine Arts Saarbrücken, at the South-West German border to France. She’s a member of the DIN committees on legibility of typefaces and type classification, which has also been a long time research field of hers. For the rest of her life, she will be working on Type Record, an extensive database on fonts and related matters.
Her typographic reference book, Buchstaben kommen selten allein, published by Niggli, was awarded one of the best designed books in Germany. She is co-author of Helvetica forever, by Lars Müller Publishers, writes articles, contributes to websites such as Fonts In Use, Webtype and Typographica, takes part in juries, gives lectures regularly and presents other great minds at the annual TypoBerlin conference.
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> My deleted LinkedIn profile
For requests and other inquiries: indra at kupferschrift de
The typefaces used on this site are Serge for headlines and Ibis RE for body copy, both designed by Cyrus Highsmith and available at Font Bureau and Webtype.