Session Host

Johannes Bergerhausen

Johannes Bergerhausen, born 1965 in Bonn, Germany, studied Graphic Design at Hochschule Düsseldorf. From 1993 to 2000, he lived and worked in Paris. First he collaborated with the Founders of Grapus, Gérard Paris- Clavel and Pierre Bernard, then he founded his own studio. In 1998 he was awarded a grant from the French Centre National des Arts Plastiques for a typographic research project on ASCII. Since 2002, he is Professor of Typography at Hochschule Mainz, Germany. In 2004, he started the decodeunicode.org project, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Guest lectures worldwide. With his colleagues in Mainz, he founded the Institut Designlabor Gutenberg in 2004. Semester of research 2007 in Paris. 2011 he published »decodeunicode — Die Schriftzeichen der Welt«. In 2012, he was awarded with the Designpreis in Gold of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2014, he published »Digital cuneiform« with a cuneiform font. Since 2014 he is visiting professor at ANRT in Nancy, France. In 2016 he initiated the project »Missing Scripts« with ANRT Nancy, HS Mainz and SEI Berkeley. 2018 poster and website worldswritingsystems.org 2019 Exhibition »Missing Scripts — The Proposals« togehter with Ilka Helmig at West Den Haag, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands. 2020 Publication »picto-, ideo-«. Member of ATypI and Gutenberg-Gesellschaft.

worldswritingsystems.org
decodeunicode.org
helmigbergerhausen.de

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