Short before I ran beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf I was invited to be a guest in Ohne den Hype, a German podcast by Sven Saro about design related topics. Good fun and you can listen to it here. Reply via Email | Continue reading
Opening up my RSS reader, a cup of coffee in hand, […] The act of spending that time in those feeds still feels like a very deliberate, intentional act. Yes! I agree, Tim. Reply via Email | Continue reading
I am usually not a person complaining. Especially not about things in the past. But when being asked, I told how hard the pandemic has hit me personally and us as a family. Not only financially, but more importantly emotionally. Because I really love, what I am doing with beyond … | Continue reading
Like Gruber says: Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Reinstall the app if you’ve already deleted it; otherwise, make sure you’re running the latest version. Tap the “I Don’t Need a Refund” bu … | Continue reading
It’s January 31st. I stop my car in front of a Japanese shop in the area of Düsseldorf’s central station. It is a grey day and the person I am picking up is my friend Vitaly Friedman. He took the train from Berlin to Düsseldorf to meet me there. From Düsseldorf we drove over to B … | Continue reading
For a longer time my friends of Storyblok and I are working on the idea of bringing free meetup-like community events to you. What was cooking for a while finally is starting now with our first two stops in Brighton and Leeds, in the UK. “Oh come on Marc! Advertising events of a … | Continue reading
In general we all live roughly 4000 weeks on this planet. I have used up most of mine – 2531, to be exact – already and reading this makes me think of course. Concerning that I already used up so many weeks, I am in a certain time of my life and the website states: That’s likely … | Continue reading
This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. I just recognised that the last post I had written before mentioning the video of Danny is from a week ago. I directly thought ”Nah … can’t be true. It was three days ago max. when I had … | Continue reading
When Danny Gregory spoke at my beyond tellerrand event in Berlin in 2016, he was telling me about his idea to start Sketchbook Skool. Lovely to see it growing and lovely to se their videos. This one is about why you should “Love your sketchbook lettering”. You changed your mind? … | Continue reading
Today the Kickstarter for Marcin’s book “Shift Happens: A Book about Keyboards” started and I was looking forward to it. And even though I swore to myself never again to back anything on that shitty platform, I did. Mostly, because I know Marcin, but surely not to give any more t … | Continue reading
Those who follow me on Instagram might have seen pictures and I already also told you about the Wonderwalls Exhibition in Düsseldorf. This week it is the last chance to visit the exhibition – and you should do so. After this week the exhibition of Selim Varol, who was a guest in … | Continue reading
When I joined Mastodon in 2018, I liked the concept and am always excited and curious to try new things. But like others described already, it somehow did not feel right. Maybe I wasn’t ready for the concept, maybe I was comparing it too much with Twitter – I don’t know. In the e … | Continue reading
Language connects us. Language connects one heart and mind to another mind and heart. Through space and time. Language transports meaning between minds, sense between bodies, it can make us understand each other and ourselves. It can make us feel what others feel. Language is a b … | Continue reading
Tweetbot was the app of my choice for Twitter for most of the time since I started using Twitter in March 2007. I think it always was a reason that I still use Twitter nowadays, as I was able to see a chronological timeline and could filter the content the way I wanted it. Event … | Continue reading
I bet this is a version where Craig Hockenberry had people revising a lot already. Still you can hear the frustration of him, when he has written the blog post. There’s no sense in clinging to the personal whims of a clown leading a shit show. Especially when his circus will end … | Continue reading
Nice post by Ahmad Shadeed once more. This time about conditional CSS. I like to think of CSS as a conditional design language. Over the years, CSS was known as a way to style web pages. Now, however, CSS has evolved a lot to the point you can see conditional rules. The interesti … | Continue reading
I am an absolute sucker for icons, to be honest. And here is a set of open source free icons, available in variable stroke SVG format, web font, Figma, React, Vue and Flutter ready to use packages. 2337 free and consistent icons. Reply via Email | Continue reading
Even though I’m sometimes absolutely not looking forward to taking the dog for a walk, because, well, I have to and it’s not a matter of choice (unless I train her to go to the toilette), I do enjoy the stroll through the forest. I enjoy it any time of the year as each has its ni … | Continue reading
I guess it is “for 2023” since we are close to the end of the year, but a lot of those typefaces are lovely in general. And I love the fact that one by Ulrike Rausch is listed here. ;) Reply via Email | Continue reading
Really interesting read over there at iA about pricing software. Furthermore you are able to tell iA how much IA Presenter should cost in your opinion. Reply via Email | Continue reading
This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. More a note to myself than to anyone else, but I was planning to bring back my little podcast, I run in German, that I enjoy back for a while now. The biggest issue I had was, that I was … | Continue reading
Trying to verify my phone number on the German Paypal website … Description: In the video you see a part of the Paypal web interface and me trying to click a link in a flyout-menu to verify my phone number, but before I am able to click it, the menu disappears. Reply via Emai … | Continue reading
No need for me to write anything that has been said already. But here are some links about what people said. Bastian Allgeier has written a longer post with his opinion about and his experience with Mastodon: Suddenly there was this old Twitter vibe. Real conversations. Real peop … | Continue reading
My friend Eva-Lotta Lamm just published a course about visualising information through illustration. Learn to structure presentations and other content as well as take expressive meeting notes in real time by combining text and sketches The course is on pre-sale right now for €1 … | Continue reading
I had to smile a lot when listen to these two. Brendan Dawes and Hugh Elliott in conversation in the Can’t Sell This podcast. Reply via Email | Continue reading
For many years my number one tool on any of my computers is iA Writer. I love it and use it more than anything else. it does exactly what it needs to do, is fast and does not distract me from what I want to do, using the tool: writing. Now iA is working on a text based presentat … | Continue reading
Once more Felix Braden has released a very tasty typeface over there at Floodfonts. It is called Sirenia and feels very organic. The whole set contains 1270 characters and includes many decorative elements as well as swash variations. I really like the warm look and feel and can’ … | Continue reading
This was the first year back in New York after 2019. And here is my set of photos from Smashing Conference 2022 in New York. Reply via Email | Continue reading
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My good friend Bastian Allgeier has been a guest of the Shoptalk Show with Dave and Chris again. Fun episode to listen to. Reply via Email | Continue reading
Totally forgot about the platform for a while. I had reasons not to be on it back then, but now Vero seems less broken than things like Instagram. So, I am on Vero to post photos. Let’s connect! Reply via Email | Continue reading
Three weeks before I ran beyond tellerrand in Berlin Léonie wrote me to ask, if I’d be up for co-hosting this years [Inclusive Design 24] online event. Of course I am! The event takes place on September 22nd and even though it is the 17th birthday of my son at this day, I will fi … | Continue reading
The Working Products Conference takes place on September 15th and 16th For beyond tellerrand I often team up with other events and we help to promote each other. The reasons are as easy as follows: There are a lot of other interesting and good conferences taking place all around … | Continue reading
I have been in Brighton after a long time for the very first time. The last dConstruct has taken place after it was announced for 2020 already and I have some impression in photo form here for you. Reply via Email | Continue reading
We celebrated 10 years of Smashing Conference in Freiburg last week. I have taken some photos and uploaded them here. Reply via Email | Continue reading
dConstruct announced one last event in 2020 to celebrate the 15th year of dConstruct in Brighton. Sadly Covid was in the way of the 2020 edition and therefore 2022 was the year. Here are a few impressions. | Continue reading
Ten years ago Vitaly and I started Smashing Conference In 2011, on the very first beyond tellerrand conference I ran, Vitaly Friedman was part of the line-up. We had just got to know each other and met for the first time, when we did a road trip to the New Adventures Conference i … | Continue reading
2317 free SVG icons for popular brands. Downloadable as SVG or PDF Reply via Email | Continue reading
I have had the honour to be invited to the Why We Create Podcast – great fun! From time to time I get invited to an interview or asked to speak or, like this time again, to be a guest in a podcast. Often times the inviting people ask me to speak about what I do and how it all sta … | Continue reading
I just re-watched the two trailers that Andy Brügemann and Stefan Nitzsche released before the pandemic for their documentary about my beyond tellerrand (@btconf) events. And even though it feels strange to listen to myself or knowing there is a film to be released about what I d … | Continue reading
I am running a couple of days each week for many years now. For a couple of years I was thinking about getting a bike to ride it in addition to running. I got one now – and I wish I would have done before. The bike how I bought it (left), outside during a ride(middle), with the T … | Continue reading
I have been busy running the first beyond tellerrand event in 2022 in Düsseldorf. It was absolutely fantastic. Even though the event has not been sold out, like any other before, the vibe, the atmosphere and the warmth people created was amazing. Speakers, audience, partners … th … | Continue reading
It has been quite a while since I had the honour of being a guest in the Workingdraft Podcast. The podcast in German language is a long running show and in their 525th episode it was about time to chat about all things events again and being an event organiser in times of Covid. … | Continue reading
Those of you who use Kirby CMS for client projects might like the idea of giving your client a more branded experience in their panel. Here is a nice cookbook recipe by Isaac Bordons. Reply via Email | Continue reading
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Lovely to see that another event has survived the bloody pandemic. Hello Bump Festival in Belgium … good to have you back! Reply via Email | Continue reading
Admirable when someone collects something meticulously. Here Antonio collects photos of laptops with stickers on devlids.com. Reply via Email | Continue reading