Stefan Marx Typeface & Book Launch @ Café Tiergarten 🌸

We’re inviting you to the launch of ABC Stefan, a typeface and artist book, where we’ll celebrate transforming the artist Stefan Marx’s iconic handwriting into a digital typeface.

We’ll be taking over the new Café Tiergarten in Berlin’s modernist Hanseviertel for Gallery Weekend, with a launch party starting at 4pm on May 2nd. We hope to see you there!

Dinamo Typeface Stefan Digital Invite Front Web
Dinamo Typeface Stefan Digital Invite Back Web

the event

ABC Stefan is our upcoming handwriting font — as well as the title of our new specimen-accordian-book hybrid designed by Simon Merz and veryes. The book examines what it means to take something as personal as an artist’s handwriting and make it accessible for others to use, with 2.5m of glyphs, a drawn A-Z, an essay by design writer and curator Billie Muraben and a poem-artwork by the grandfather of zine-making, AA Bronson.

At 6pm, Stefan and Johannes will perform a flip-chart spectacle touching on handwriting and type making. Kristin has organized us drinks, cake, a DJ set, and a pop-up Dinamo Editions/Stefan Marx bookshop that’ll be open all weekend. Stefan will also paint a mural.

Café Tiergarten is the new project by our friends Leonie and Simon from GROTTO, a cafe-and-event space which the pair have been renovating in preparation for this special launch (follow along with Simon’s YouTube renovation diary here).

Dinamo Typeface Stefan Hansaviertel Web

Reopening soon: Café Tiergarten in the listed Schwedenhaus (Swedish House) building from 1957

Dinamo Typeface Stefan Cafe Tiergarten Under Construction Inside Web

Deep in renovation prepartions...

Cafe Tiergarten Under Construction Outside Web

@cafetiergarten @grotto.berlin

about stefan marx

Over the past 20 years, contemporary artist Stefan Marx has lent his unique handwriting to a variety of media: paper, canvas, porcelain, and textiles. He publishes artists’ books and zines, designs record covers for various labels, and shows his work in international exhibitions, at book fairs, and galleries. Stefan lives and works in Berlin.

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Dinamo Typeface Stefan Cat Web

We often share links to upcoming events, launches, and things we’ve been enjoying on the internet. This time, Stefan shares his recent recommendations with us: