Lena Weber

Lena Weber is a graphic system designer and creative coder, focusing on the development of design tools and typographic systems.
She is working as a freelancer after completing her master's degree at Bauhaus University in 2022.
In her thesis „Ambiguous Aesthetics – creatively coded graphic design as encrypted information“ she explores the aesthetics of coded design by mixing philosophical and technical with visual approaches.
In addition to her work for clients and self initiated research, she teaches workshops and lectures at various universities.

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Selected Clients:

Forbes Magazine
Schweizer Bundesamt für Kultur
AG Cook
GOAT
Figma/Config Conference
Society of Artistic Research ConferenceSlate & Ash
Bluemarble Paris SS24 Collection
Wired Magazine
Holo Magazine
Kunsthistorisches (Max-Plank) Institut Florenz: Coded Objects Research Group
Zurich University of Arts ZHdK
Bauhaus-University Weimar

Teaching

Summer 2024 – Hochschule Rhein-Waal: Prototyping & Code
Winter 23/24 – New Design University: Generative Gestaltung
Winter 23/24 – Bauhaus University Weimar: Archiv der Zustände: Zwischen Idee, System & Grafik
Summer 2023 – Bauhaus University Weimar: Tools for Visual Research
Summer 2023 – Hochschule Rhein-Waal: Prototyping & Code
Winter 21/22 – Bauhaus University: Semester-course: Archiv der Aspekte

Workshops

Coming up: 20-22.01.2025 Variable Fonts Workshop, ABK Stuttgart
27-30-10.24 – Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg: Creative Coding
15-17.4.2024 – Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (ABK) Stuttgart: Creative Coding
6-8.11.2023 – HEAD Genève: Numerical Realities
06.09.2023 – Captcha Design Festival: Symposium & Workshop Hochschule Mannheim: RESULTS
20.06.2023 – Bauhaus University Weimar: Introduction to Creative Coding: Processing
10.05.2023 – Workshop AtypI Paris Conference: Let's make a variable COLRv1 Typeface

Lectures/Talks

27.10.2024 – Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (ABK) Stuttgart: Graphic Systems
22.05.1024 – Type N' Toys: Typoclub Bern
15.04.2024 – ABK Stuttgart: Infinite Unpredictabilities
18.01.2024 – KD Lounge: Chaos Menu
08.10.2023 – Inscript Experimental Type Festival (virtual)
29.07.2023 – Lips Talk 2023 / Ladies Wine Design Mannheim
04.05.2023 – UdK Berlin, Klasse Hickmann & Burrow: Typographic Systems
21.03.2023 – Elisava Barcelona Masters Program: Ambiguous Aesthetics – Guest Lecture
17.03.2023 – Creative Coding Meet-up Barcelona: The Aesthetics of Creative Coding
20.01.2023 – SRH Berlin School of Design and Communication (BSDC) – Guest Lecture
13.12.2022 – Bauhaus University Weimar: Graphic Systems – Guest Lecture

Read

TYPEONE Magazine – Issue 07 – Life in boxes: The restrictive yet boundless type systems of Lena Weber
Type.Today – Limitations – Interview
It's Nice That – Lena Weber’s animated typeface is a celebration of digital gradients
Lena Weber on Ambiguous Aesthetics – Interview by Tim Rodenbröker
Lena Weber on flexiblevisualsystems.info by Martin Lorenz

Research

Ambiguous Aesthetics – Graphic Design as Encrypted Information – Master Thesis: 2022
Iterationen – Aspekte des Rasters (Aspects of the grid) – Bachelor Thesis: 2020/21