I love building things from the ground up. My career has been shaped by complex, long-term ventures, many of them still ongoing. Some are my own, like the type foundry and the political magazine I co-founded. Others I built together with larger organisations like Correctiv. I also love teaming up with people on shorter projects that excite me and help me grow my craft.
Fundamental for my work is my care about social equality and climate action. Personal goals alone has never been enough for me: a liveable planet and a fair society matter just as much, and both can only be achieved and sustained collectively. That's why political work is a part of my life I wouldn't be without, from local initiatives to wider campaigns, hired or pro-bono.
My interest in design began early, and it didn't come out of nowhere: my father published a mountain bike magazine and ran an advertising agency. I grew up among designers and editors, surrounded by Macintosh computers, print proofs, camera gear and mountain bikes. At 16 I began working as a commercial graphic designer, and at 18 I moved to Nuremberg to study graphic design. I have worked freelance in Berlin since 2011.
As a child I loved drawing and was a huge fan of manga. My dream was to become a comic artist myself, but the daily discipline of drawing never gripped me enough to build a career on it. Even so, drawing was my first way into visual design, and I still take on illustrations whenever an interesting project comes along.
Typography has been one of my main interests from the start; as I see it, it sits at the centre of visual design. I know its history in depth and follow the contemporary market closely, always curious about new foundries and releases. Towards the end of my studies I began designing type myself – a path that eventually led to co-founding the type foundry Dreamtype in 2025.
I started programming during my studies, driven by a fantasy of unlimited power: learn the languages, and you can build anything, free of material constraints. How naive I was – though recent AI models have brought that fantasy surprisingly close to reality. Either way, building websites and software has become one of the parts of my practice I enjoy most.
