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The latest issue no. 3/2016 of "Blickpunkt LKW+BUS" is available. Besides the editorial design for the print magazine, I was also responsible for the smart phone as well as the tablet app for iOS and Android. In this video, I give you a short insight into this multimedia app. Since beginning of this year, I here and there work with these "reverse pull-out tabs", as I like to call them, for my clients’ interactive rich media magazines. The story titled "Iveco zeigt Flagge" in this video also features this "reverse pull-out tab". #app #tablet #iphone #interactive #magazine

Developing a font is something very complex and requires a lot of expertise, attention to detail and talent. Serifs yes or no, the contrast of a font that has a big impact on the grey tone of a text and many other characteristics give letters a soul and give a text a certain look. This is why there are professional typographers out there, who produce fonts. In autumn 2015, Adobe presented a new project in Adobe MAX: Adobe Project Faces. It looks like a font generation app, but see for yourself (for all non-Americans: Don’t worry, this is not a cult, but a product presentation in American style): I have to admit: Adobe really put a lot of brain and effort into this and obviously worked with absolute typography-pros. Thumbs up! Many aspects of typography have been taken into account here. However, what about: the interplay of letters, the harmony of the copy as a whole and many details like ligatures for example. At the moment, I doubt if Project Face really comes in handy when producing fonts for a big amount of text. It might work for short texts, posters or headers though. If you ever produce a font in Adobe Project Face and want to use it for a big amount of text, please: test, test, test! That simply means: Go into Indesign, put a lot of placeholder text on a few pages and print them out. If Project Faces becomes really popular and takes over in the future, the question comes up, if we will read less books and magazines because of a possibly impaired readability – if Project Face will be used for the main copy by designers who are not very familiar with typography (is Project Face targeted at them? Who knows.) A question, that might be answered not before many years have passed .... #typography #font #fonts #adobe

My infographic "Heart Attacks on the Rise" that shows facts about heart attacks, their reasons, symptoms and how to prevent them, was thoroughly analyzed by infographicdatabase.com and got an in-depth design review. #infographic

I designed the latest issue ONE:16 of the interactive and multimedia app magazine "connecting comPETence" . You can download the app on your iPad or your Android tablet from the Google Play Store . #ipad #app #tablet #andoird #apple

The latest issue no. 1-2/2016 of Austria’s largest transport magazine "Blickpunkt LKW+BUS" is now available as print and app magazine for tablets and smart phones (iOS and Android). New is the special swipe effect that allows readers to swipe text boxes out of the display - a reverse pullout tab so to speak. This creates a great visual effect for picture-heavy stories. #editorialdesign #app #interactive

Over the Christmas and NYE holidays you can eat and drink a lot and spend a wonderful time with family and friends. However, this can also be quite hectic. These candles can help to relax: By the way: They also create a pleasant atmosphere in case you have to sit in front of the computer and work a lot during the holidays. Candles like these really make working much nicer. #candle #christmas #xmas

In this and my upcoming blog posts over the next weeks, I want to show you some web and poster designs of some great festivals. Let’s start with Mardi Gras (4 March 2014) that takes place in New Orleans (USA) every year. It’s indeed a very colourful and carnivalesque festival. You can’t deny the European origin from the Medieval Times. The purple colour gives a feel of magic and fantasy which is great. Also the combination with the green colour is okay. However, the green is too dark and when you scroll down to the bottom of the website, you see that the dark green looks very old-fashioned and not nice. Tradition and vintage yes, but old-fashioned? Please not! Instead of dark green, the designer should have chosen another colour or another shade of green. http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com In my next blog post I feature a festival in Belgium by the way ... #posterdesign #festival #mardigras

Today I show you part two of my (current) 24 favourite fonts that I picked from my font "stock" of 1300 fonts altogether. I ordered the fonts alphabetically, not by my personal taste. DANIEL (Great handwriting, good readability and supports fast reading.): ENRIQUETA (Very good readability, a bit edgy but still timeless.): GEARED SLAB (A high grey level but great for headers, short text, quotes etc.): HEADLINER NO. 45 (Rough, strong, loud, a real eye-catcher, also suitable for Vintage projects.): MAGESTA SCRIPT MIX (Mysterious, suitable for Vintage projects.): MARLON BOOK DB (Very good readability due to high minuscules.): METROPOLIS 1920 (A font that I have seen quite often lately. Used with care, it looks elegant especially with 2-coloured projects.): MISSION SCRIPT (Clear, strong, great handwriting.): Example: I used Mission Script as an eye-catching design element in an online advertising campaign for a newsletter as well as a landing page. MOSAIC LEAF (Goes well with nature themes on big billboards.): PEA CARRIE SCRIPT (Very good for food packagings – natural, healthy products. The minuscule height in relation to the majuscule height is interesting here.): PUPCAT (Minuscules and majuscules have almost the same height what creates an interesting effect.): Example: I used Pupcat for an exclusive olive oil packaging to support the nature theme. SAHARA (The shadow creates a 3D effect, great for headers, a good choice for Vintage projects.): #typography #font

Today’s blog post is about the web design of the probably most famous festival in the world – Tomorrowland. Originating from Boom (Belgium), it now also takes place in Atlanta (USA) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). The festival’s concept was perfectly translated into the design concept of the website. Playful flowers, vintage style paper with burn marks and an interesting grid effect in the background definitely transport a feel of fantasy and dreamland. You see at first sight that design professionals worked on this website. The corporate design was perfectly executed here, very well done! http://www.tomorrowland.com My next blog post features a festival in England ... #posterdesign #tomorrowland

What comes to your mind when thinking of Holland? Cheese, tulips, windmills, a mind-altering substance being sold in shops where you might find or might not find coffee and ... of course – wooden shoes! I have never had the honour of trying on authentic Dutch clogs. As they probably feel as uncomfortable as they sound, I chose to buy soft „wooden“ shoes at Amsterdam airport a while ago. (What else can you do while waiting for a connection flight ...) So I thought I research a bit on Dutch wooden shoes and here I want to show you some outstanding models. The "Münsterländer Holzklumpen" proove that also Germans have a sense for nice wooden shoes indeed. Some models are really elegant. Seen on bluedelft.com . This model I discovered at putinstyle.com . Don't ask me what this has to do with the Russian president ;-) Seen at eggeller.com . Seen at fiskarscraft.typepad.com/my_weblog . When thinking of wooden shoes, the designer Patricia van Lubeck sets the standards for extraordinary models. My soft clogs from the airport in Amsterdam - convenience meets "taste". #holland #amsterdam #clogs #fashion

Summer time is travel time. So I went to South America to explore some of the greatest spots of Peru, Ecuador as well as the Galapagos Islands. As a designer I find it really important to get inspirations from different angles. Below you see a few photos that I took of beautiful things I found on my holiday: (Copyright photos: Helene Clara Gamper) #ecuador #per #galapagos #inspiration #holiday

Photoshop and colour selection effects of modern cameras make it possible: The black and white photography is having a comeback (or was it ever even dead?) and combined with smart colour selection. This creates a great photo look and the viewer’s eye is led towards a specific photo area (or the product on a billboard). Here you see a few examples: #colour #advertisement