›Dinner at the White House‹ at the Kennedy Center

The permanent exhibition ›Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy‹ at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC opens to the public today!

I am thrilled and honoured to have worked with Richard The of TheGreenEyl on an installation that’s part of this exhibition: ›Dinner at the White House‹ – an interactive table, at which visitors are introduced to the historic dinners the Kennedys hosted at the White House. I collaborated on the UI design and developed the backend and frontend software.

The exhibit contains 6 touchscreen plates, through which visitors can simultaneously view the guests who dined with Kennedy in the past and also select contemporary guests they would choose to invite to a dinner at the White House today. Quotes from the invitees appear on the surface of the table suggesting the themes and connections between them.

This permanent exhibition at the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy has been designed by creative director Abbott Miller of Pentagram in collaboration with architects KieranTimberlake, consulting curator Ileen Gallagher and an advisory committee of five leading U.S. historians.

A big shout out to Richard The from TheGreenEyl for commissioning me to collaborate on the UI design of the Interactive table and develop the backend and frontend software. @ardakmukanova@jiangnan_nichole@rozi.525 you were an amazing team to work with. Marian Mentrup thank you for the great sound design and collaboration. Krittika Arvind and Andreas Schmelas, thank you for the professional exchange and support.

If you’re in the area, do check out: ›Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy‹. It’s open to visitors daily from noon to midnight with free admission and no tickets required.

Interactive Research Table at Erik Spiekermann Retrospective

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In recognition of Erik Spiekermann being awarded the German Design Award for his outstanding contribution to Design in Germany, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin will be exhibiting an extensive body of his work.

We are pleased to display our interactive research table at the show. The multi-touch interface offers an insight into Erik Spiekermann‘s network of partners – visualizing relations between them and a multitude of works.

The table was developed by the designers network Plural (Kilian Krug und Severin Wucher in cooperation with Markus Lerner).

»Erik Spiekermann – The Face of Type«
23. März – 6. Juni 2011
Opening: Tuesday, 22 March 2011 · 7pm

Bauhaus Archiv
Klingelhöferstraße 14
10785 Berlin

Further information and pictures

Project website:
was-war-deutsches-grafik-design.de

Gotham typeface

After a long time, the name of a great new typeface I used to catch sight of quite often, was wispered to me: Gotham, by the foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones. EasyJet uses it for the headlines in it flight magazine, for example, and it seems to be used quite often especially in the UK area.

Thanks a lot to the living identifont-engine Christoph.

Transport Font

Finally i’ve found the typeface of London’s street signs. It’s called Transport and was created by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir in 1963. I love this font, though you see it quite often here.

Some might recognize a slight resemblance to two of my really favourite typefaces, DIN 1451 (German Standard Committee, 1936), which is used for the German transport system and the improved version FF DIN (Albert-Jan Pool, 1995). The roundish letters of “Transport” like C,O,Q are much rounder tough than those of “DIN”, but in a nice way.