Katharina Nejdl

Very excited that grid-type.com was awarded in the Tech and Web categories, as well as Recognised in the Typography category of the 2025 @internationalcreativeawards . GridType is a grid-based type tool inspired by historical grid-based type design with stencils, such as the Plaque Découpée Universelle from the 1870s. Create your own stencils by selecting a grid and adjusting various parameters, such as the number of rows, columns, or the level of complexity. Draw your letterforms within these grids and download them as a font file. Full case studies of Awarded and Recognised work are published on the International Creative Awards website creativeawards.international

MI 13.05. | Antrittsvorlesung | Prof. Katharina Nejdl Ich freue mich sehr, ab diesem Semester die Professur für Kommunikationsgestaltung im Integrierten Design an der HfK Bremen zu übernehmen und meinen digitalen Schwerpunkt dort einzubringen: „Wie sieht eine digitale Publikation aus? Welche Formen nehmen wir online an? Kann AI Plakate gestalten? Mit diesen und anderen Fragen beschäftigt sich Katharina Nejdl in ihrer Praxis und Lehre. Als Grafikdesignerin und Developerin interessiert sie sich dafür, digitale Technologien – wie Web, AR und AI – als grafische Mittel einzusetzen.“

Mehr dazu bei der Antrittsvorlesung am MI 13.05. um 19:00 Uhr, mit anschließendem Empfang. 13.05. | 19:00 Auditorium (1.09.060) Hochschule für Künste Bremen Am Speicher XI 8 Portraits © @louisastickelbruck

In this workshop we explore how type design can become a process of encoding, translating ideas, data, or emotions into visual systems. In typography, letterforms always encode more than just the words themselves. Their form, structure, and rhythm become part of the message and shape how we experience written language. This workshop is led by Katharina Nejdl (@katharinanejdl ), a graphic designer, developer, and educator interested in using digital technologies such as web, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence as graphic tools. No experience needed, but don’t forget to bring your laptop! You can find tickets, and more information about Katharina and this workshop via the link in our bio. 🔮 LINE UP: Coming soon! 🪩 DATES: 28 November 2025 10:00-12:30 🪐LOCATION: The Grey Space in the Middle, Paviljoensgracht 20-24, The Hague 🪙 PRICE: €15 Full/€5 Students 🌑 In partnership with The Grey Space in the Middle 🌙 Funded by Creative Industry Fund NL, Pictoright Fund, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Instituto Cervantes

Have you ever thought about a type design-world tour? This gets possible with the »SEEN Around the World-Symposium«, April 9–11 2025 at LUX, Mainz (Germany). More than 30 inspiring international typographers and type designers will be part of it. All talks will be live-streamed. Free tickets can be booked from Monday, March 17 on our website. Line up series 5/8 Rejane Dal Bello is an award-winning designer and has more than 25 years of experience in graphic design and branding. She recently wrote the book »Citizen First, Designer Second«, which is among the top 50 must-read design books of all time. Lizá Défossez Ramalho’s work spans art, typography, and design, including signages, typographic interventions in buildings, and collaborations with architects and artists. She is active in research, curating, publishing, and teaching and recognized internationally with awards. Katharina Nejdl deals with questions like »What does a digital publication look like? What shapes do we take online? Can AI design posters?« in her work. As a graphic designer and developer, she is interested in using digital technologies – such as web, AR and AI – as graphic tools. Golnar Kat Rahmani runs her own studio in the fields of type design, multilingual editorial design & typography. Through her project »Type & Politics« she endeavors to detach Arabic-Persian letters from ideological & political negative circumstances. For more details about the designers have a look at the UN/SEEN website! @rejanedalbello @r2design.pt @katharinanejdl @golnarkat @designlabor.gutenberg @hsm.lux @hsm.gestaltung @hsm.kommunikationsdesign @bmbf.bund #seen #aroundtheworldsymposium #womenintype #graphicdesign #animation #typography #code #international #symposium #mainz #riodejaneiro #london #saopaulo #porto #berlin #amsterdam #teheran @unseen.women.design

TONIGHT AT STROOM: We are excited to announce the yearly type edition of Zefir7: Type on Tuesday, this year with @aleksandrasamulenkova and @katharinanejdl !Free entrance – Come by! Tuesday, 18/02/2025 Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1, The Hague 7:30 PM: Doors open 8 PM: Start of the program Free entry to all species BNO members get a free drink We hope to see you there! Aleksandra Samuļenkova is a Latvian-born type designer based in the Netherlands. She designs for Latin, Cyrillic and (occasionally) Greek, and consults on the former two scripts. Aleksandra is known for her typeface Pilot—one of the few contemporary type designs that has been cast in metal, as well as for her award-winning Cyrillic and Greek extensions of notable typefaces such as IBM Plex. Aleksandra also specializes in designing diacritics and special characters for the Latin script, and enjoys lecturing on the topic at various educational institutions, among others—her alma mater—Type and Media Master programme at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, and Type@Cooper in NYC. Katharina Nejdl is a designer and developer based in Amsterdam. She recently published her website grid-type.com, a grid based type tool, which she will talk about during this evening. “What does a digital publication look like? How do posters become participatory? What new perspectives does AI open up for design?” Katharina Nejdl deals with these and other questions in her work. As a designer and developer, she is interested in using digital technologies - such as web, AR and AI - as graphic tools. Katharina Nejdl studied at the Sandberg Instituut, UdK Berlin and ZHdK. She teaches creative coding and gives workshops. In 2019 she founded the digital literary magazine ­ (), which explores new forms of digital reading, writing and publishing. Presented by @zefirzeven @bno.nl & @stroom_den_haag Visual by @terrafic.soup typefaces: tonka & an unreleased script type face by @celinehurka :) lettering done by @terrafic.soup using grid type by @katharinanejdl

GridType Lab presents: Ornamental Utopia ______ 01.12.24 | Workshop & Talk w/ @celinehurka & @yamunaforzani 15–18:00 | Workshop | Sign up [link in bio] 19:00 | Talk | Open for all [RSVP link in bio] @post____office | Hoofdweg 403 | Amsterdam ______ Christmas is just around the corner so come and get your unique artsy christmas cards ready. Join Céline and Yamuna on the 1st of December for this cutesy celebration of all things type. Using the grid-based framework of GridType, together we will create ornamental designs perfect to get you into the festive spirit. The afternoon will also have open discussions around topics that the hosts have been exploring in their work such as inclusivity, feminism, textiles, type design and tool making as art/design practices. This workshop is open to everyone – even the grinch. No prior knowledge required. Please bring your laptop, for anyone who can. ______ Workshop by @celinehurka , @yamunaforzani & @katharinanejdl Talk by @celinehurka & @yamunaforzani Hosted at @post____office Thank you to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible. ______ GridType Lab is a workshop series about type & tools. Check out /lab for more info. grid-type.com is a grid-based online type tool by @katharinanejdl . Yamuna Forzani is a multidisciplinary artist and queer activist whose practice centers around a desire to build her queer utopia that centers and celebrates her community, making them part of and inspiration of her creative outputs. Yamuna’s work takes form through textile, she explores the medium in collaboration with other design, artistic and social initiatives - often involving, organising events, dance performances, embedding fashion and costume, public art and versatile installations.  yamunaforzani.org  Céline Hurka is an independent type designer based in The Hague, NL. In her practice, she aims to play with, question, and break the conventions that have prevailed for the past hundreds of years. She is fascinated by how meaning is attached to form and transforms over years of usage in different contexts. celine-hurka.com

GridType Lab presents: Typographic Fortune Telling ______ 23.11.24 | Workshop & Talk w/ @charlotte__rohde 15–18:00 | Workshop | [fully booked] 19:00 | Talk | Open for all [RSVP link in bio] @post____office | Hoofdweg 403 | Amsterdam ______ In this workshop, we’ll explore how typefaces can convey distinct personalities, moods, and narratives. Typography isn’t just about choosing letters; it’s about crafting voices and characters through type. In this session, we’ll start by dissecting the unique “character” of well-known typefaces, examining how subtle details—like curves, angles, and proportions—can communicate different emotions and ideas. From here, we’ll exchange characterizations and reinterpret someone else’s typographic characters into a new typeface. No prior experience in typography is needed. ______ Workshop by @charlotte__rohde & @katharinanejdl Talk by @charlotte__rohde GridType Lab is a workshop series about type & tools. Check out /lab for more info. grid-type.com is a grid-based online type tool by @katharinanejdl . Hosted at @post____office Thank you to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible.

GridType Lab Workshop Series ______ 23.11.24 | Workshop & Talk w/ @charlotte__rohde 01.12.24 | Workshop & Talk w/ @celinehurka & @yamunaforzani XX.01.25 | Workshop & Talk about Type Tools tba @post____office | Hoofdweg 403 | Amsterdam ______ GridType Lab presents a workshop series about type & tools. We’ll explore topics from typographic fortune-telling through feminist ornaments to in-depth discussions on type tools. Join us as we examine type and technology from multiple perspectives, featuring talks and discussions with (type) designers, artists, font engineers, and developers. ______ Check out /lab for more info. grid-type.com is a grid-based online type tool by @katharinanejdl . Hosted at @post____office . Thank you to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible.

A grid-based online type tool. _______ GridType is an experimental type tool. You can generate different types of grids with it, draw your letters within these grids and download them as a font file. Try it out now at grid-type.com! _______ Thank you to everyone involved in the process and to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible.

A grid-based online type tool. _______ GridType is inspired by historical grid-based type design with stencils, such as the Plaque Découpée Universelle from the 1870s – a single stencil that allows you to draw all the letters of the alphabet. On grid-type.com, you can create your own stencils by selecting a grid and adjusting various parameters, such as the number of rows, columns, or the level of complexity. _______ Thank you to everyone involved in the process and to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible.

A grid-based online type tool. _______ GridType is a grid-based type tool. There are nine different grid types available, giving an insight into my research about grid construction. Some grids are geometric, based on rectangles, triangles, or circles. Others are inspired by how different display technologies, such as pixels and segments, have influenced type design. Additionally, there are references to historic grid-based type design, including Wim Crouwel, the Bauhaus and the Plaque Découpée Universelle. _______ Thank you to everyone involved in the process and to the @stimuleringsfonds talent development fund for making this project possible.

www.gesammeltewoerter.ch _______ Der Gedichtgenerator der Literatur-Plattform Gesammelte Wörter ist auch mobil nutzbar. Jetzt von unterwegs eigene Lyrik-Souvenirs kreieren. 
Diese werden auf der Webseite gespeichert und können während des Festivals an einer Station im Volkshaus gedruckt und mit nach Hause genommen werden. Die Wörter des Gedichtgenerators speisen sich aus Texten von:
BuchBasel Kollektiv, Anne Sauer (@fuxbooks ), Enis Maci (@enis_maci ) und Mazlum Nergiz (@enjoycombustion ), Barbara Bleisch (@barbarableisch ), Fabian Saul (@fabian__saul ), Caroline Wahl (@carowahl ) _______ Gestaltung: Lena Hegger (@lenahegger ), Katharina Nejdl (@katharinanejdl ) Programmierung: Katharina Nejdl (@katharinanejdl ), Florian Zia (@florianzia ) Konzeption: Lena Hegger, Katharina Nejdl, Chris Möller, Annina Niederberger, Noemi Parisi (@mionep.a ), Marion Regenscheit (@marion_regenschein ) Redaktion: Chris Möller (@juliecoopernickel ) Installation: Lara Siri Bunjes (@laraasirii ), Lena Hegger, Tobias Grabowski (@tobe_grabow ), Nicholas Schüller (@nicholas.schueller ) _______ Ein Projekt der BuchBasel 2024 (@buchbasel ). Mit Unterstützung des Bundesamts für Kultur, des Kantons Basel-Stadt und des Kantons Basel-Landschaft.