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02/08/2021
Type & Feminisms
The August issue of PAGE magazine as well as PAGE online.
29/12/2020
The new culture of type specimens
The type specimens of Weissenhof Grotesk and
ABK Stuttgart are both part of the book
Support Independent Type: The New Culture of Type Specimens
released by Slanted Publishers this month.
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06/10/2020
Referenz Grotesk press
Several magazines and blogs have featured the type family
Referenz Grotesk, designed by Stefanie Schwarz and
Dirk Wachowiak, including Slanted, Page, Novum (07.20),
Design made in Germany, Femme Type and It's nice that.
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05/06/2020
Type & Research
The Bauhaus Journal gives a glimpse into
Stefanie's plans and research at Bauhaus University
Weimar where she has been appointed as
junior professor for typography and type design.
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12/03/2020
Typeface release
The type family Referenz Grotesk by Stefanie Schwarz
and Dirk Wachowiak has been released by the type foundry
Sudtipos in Buenos Aires.
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09/12/2019
Nomination in Tokyo
The corporate font ABK Stuttgart designed by Stefanie
Schwarz and Dirk Wachowiak has been selected by
the Tokyo Type Directors Club as Prize Nominee Work
and will be included in the winners' exhibition and
Annual Awards 2020 book.
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12/05/2019
On the radio
Stefanie Schwarz and Dirk Wachowiak have been interviewed
by the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur for a
documentary about the historic Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart.
They discuss how living in one of the modernist buildings
also influences them as designers and inspired their well-known
typeface Weissenhof Grotesk.
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04/03/2019
Type Design Workshop
Together with Dirk Wachowiak, Stefanie has been invited
by the Winchester School of Art to give a type design
workshop within the MA Communication Design programme.
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20/07/2018
New Corporate Font for ABK Stuttgart
Just released: The new corporate font "ABK Stuttgart"
designed by Stefanie Schwarz and Dirk Wachowiak for
Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design aka "ABK Stuttgart".
After 18 months of hard work the type family with 8 styles
and 3,596 glyphs in total is ready to be set, read and seen.
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17/01/2018
Lecture at HKDM Freiburg
Stefanie is invited to give a talk at the Hochschule
für Kunst, Design und Populäre Musik Freiburg.
Titled "Type and context" she will discuss how her
work is driven by various research contexts.
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21/05/2017
Weissenhof Grotesk at Weissenhofwerkstatt
The design process and some applications of the font
Weissenhof Grotesk are exhibited during the weekend
of the International Museum Day on 21 May in the
"Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe" at
the historic Weissenhof estate in Stuttgart.
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18/05/2016
Weissenhof Grotesk press
Several magazines and blogs have featured the new font
Weissenhof Grotesk, including Design made in Germany,
Slanted Magazine (spring/summer 2016), Novum (05.16)
and Page Magazine (06.2016). Moreover it was among
MyFonts' Most Popular Fonts of 2015.
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05/05/2016
Interactive Type Workshop
Stefanie will hold a workshop at Kingston University
in London on creative coding and interactive type.
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26/11/2015
Typeface release
New font "Weissenhof Grotesk" by Stefanie Schwarz and
Dirk Wachowiak just released by the Indian Type Foundry.
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25/04/2015
Exhibition at Dortmunder U
Two of Stefanie's works are part of the exhibition and
research project "Dialogues on books", which presents
innovative concepts in the field of book design.
In collaboration with the Buchlabor of the FH Dortmund
it is held at the Dortmunder U - Zentrum fuer Kunst
und Kreativitaet and runs from 25 April until 7 June.
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28/11/2014
Typography Conference in Portugal
In November Stefanie will present her research about
interactive type at the 5th Meeting of Typography
in Barcelos, Portugal. The conference is organized
by the resident Design Department of the Polytechnic
Institute of Cavado and Ave.
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04/08/2014
Lecture at design festival
Stefanie holds a lecture at the design festival Captcha
that is themed around the subject of experimental
typography and organized by students at the University
of Applied Sciences in Mannheim.
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22/05/2014
Talk at Studio Visuell
Along with Andy Altmann (Why Not Associates),
Stefanie has been invited to give a talk
at the yearly summer event of Studio Visuell
in Stuttgart.
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09/04/2014
DesignScience Workshop
Together with DesignScience founders Anne Odling-Smee
and Patrick Roberts, Stefanie holds a workshop at
Imperial College London. Funded by the Wellcome Trust
and aimed at researchers from all disciplines of science,
it imparts design basics as well as the importance
of visual communication design within the field of science.
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06/03/2014
On the Underground and beyond
One of Stefanie's type experiments can be seen across
London - in art, design and cultural destinations
as well as on the tube. The artwork was created during
her MA at Central Saint Martins and is now featured
in a campaign to promote her former school and other
colleges of the University of the Arts London.
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10/01/2014
open2type launch
In collaboration with Dirk Wachowiak,
Stefanie has launched the typographic research lab
open2type which is conceived as a field of
experimentation as well as a platform to showcase
their type-related projects.
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12/10/2013
Published x 2
Two of Germany's widespread design magazines
Page (October issue) and Novum (November issue)
feature the results of a workshop held by
Stefanie, together with Dirk Wachowiak, at the
School of Design in Pforzheim.
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15/08/2013
DesignScience associate
After previous collaborations with DesignScience,
Stefanie continues to work with the London-based
institution and becomes one of its associates.
By applying design to science and science to design,
DesignScience aims to develop innovative ways
of working across these two fields.
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24/05/2013
Lecture at Royal College of Art
Stefanie has been invited to give a lecture at the
Royal College of Art. The talk outlines her research
that explores analogue, digital, traditional and
future type-related design methods and technologies.
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22/05/2013
Lecture at Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
invited Stefanie to give a talk about her
investigations how type can be designed and used
as an interactive and creative tool.
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02/05/2013
Holz, Blei, Bits und Bytes
Stefanie will lead a discussion at her typography and type
design workshop at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design.
Students and alumni are invited to debate on the meaning
of letterpress in the digital age and in which way digital
and analogue methods could coexist.
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11/03/2013
MerkWuerdig Workshop
Together with Dirk Wachowiak, Stefanie has been invited
by the School of Design at Pforzheim University to
give a type design workshop. For three days 20 students
were working on typefaces that had to be related to
the topic "MerkWuerdig" which means peculiar or remarkable.
In the end all participants contributed to a publication
that features their merkWuerdig fonts.
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25/01/2013
Certificate of Typographic Excellence
The poster "Work in Progress" has been selected by the
judges of the Type Directors Club in New York to receive
the "Certificate of Typographic Excellence".
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