For three decades, I worked as a graphic designer in Vienna – one of the world’s cultural capitals – primarily for clients in the arts and culture sector. I founded and later left studios, collaborated with international agencies, and authored books on urban typography.

Hosted walks and talks, curated exhibitions, initiated independent projects and supported long-term clients, including the Wien Museum for almost 25 years. And I travelled extensively through Europe and Asia, documenting typographic findings for my typetraveldiary.

Now, in 2026 and in our mid-50s, we’re starting anew:
living nomadically between Japan and Southeast Asia, looking for new projects and adventures.

Self-initiated projects

2022
Finding Forte
Publication and exhibition at designforum Vienna.

2021
Mid-Century Vienna
Publication and exhibition at the construction fence of the Vienna Museum.

2021
Will I ever see you Again?
Poster intervention marking one year of the Lockdown for Vienna’s club scene.

Since 2019
Type Travel Diary
A global collection of typographical finds. A closer look at the typographical details of a city often leads to unexpected discoveries. Many of the local peculiarities described contribute charmingly to the flair of the destinations, yet are threatened with extinction.

2018
Vienna’s Last Signpainter Bio Pic 
In cooperation with Better Letters London, this documentary film was produced about Josef Samuel, Vienna’s last sign painter, and his sign painting museum, the only one of its kind in Europe. Between August 2018 and September 2019, the film was screened at festivals worldwide.

2017
Sign Week Vienna – Festival for Urban Typography
Vienna has a long tradition of individual city signage and was once considered the metropolis of sign painting. Sign Week Vienna, which I organised and curated, was intended to commemorate this heritage and stimulate discourse about the changes in the city and their impact on Vienna’s characteristic (typo)graphic coding.

Since 2016
Typo walks, among others for the Vienna Museum, design austria and the Typographic Society Austria (tga).

2016
Ghostletters Vienna Publication
They are fleeting witnesses to history, constantly threatened by dismantling and repainting: ghost letters appear wherever lettering is removed from portals, leaving behind traces. Published by Falter Publishers, this book sets out in search of traces of the once proud lettering that was once an essential part of Vienna's visual identity but has now largely been lost.

Vita

Since 2026
Digital Nomad in Asia, focusing on own projects and collaborations.

2011 – 2025
Graphic design with a focus on cultural institutions, including the Vienna Library in Town Hall, the Vienna Museum, City of Vienna Art Ltd., Atelierhaus Wien, and the Stadtvilla Eisenstadt.

2001 – 2011
Account Director Digital McDonald’s Austria (for Tribal DDB Munich)

1996 – 2000
The Lounge Interactive Design GmbH
Founder, Managing Director

seit 1995
Freelance graphic designer

Articles, including

Slanted
Page
Novum
typograpHer
Printmag
Austrian Posters
BLAG Better Letters Magazin
Design made in Austria
typostrate
Fonts in Use
The Gap
Vice
Falter
Monocle Magazine
Vienna, Intl.
ORF, FM4, Ö1 (Austrian Broadcasting / TV)