International Design Talks
Nina Stössinger (*1978) is a graphic designer who focuses on type and typography. With a background in text and web design she began to love type when she studied at Burg Giebichenstein HKD Halle, and in her postgraduate course on type design at the ZHdK Zurich. Since 2008, she has been running her own studio in Basel. She works on typographic projects at night and on the side. She published her first font family FF Ernestine in 2011.
A perhaps partly amusing account of Nina Stössinger’s very serious journey into the jungle that is typeface design: A tale of joys and challenges on the path to completing her first publicly released font family, and a musing on learning to draw, and learning to see; on the responsibility that lies in designing letters; on collaboration and self-sufficiency, substance and seriousness, passion and perseverance – on being earnest, and making FF Ernestine.
