International Design Talks

0-45-90-180 Chinese gathers speed

Susanne Zippel
Berlin 2012
Saturday, 19 May 2012 | 15:00 | TYPO Show
German

0-45-90-180 Chinese gathers speed

Susanne Zippel
Berlin 2012 | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | 15:00 | TYPO Show | German
Susanne Zippel discusses a single Chinese character in order to explain how written Chinese works and what the main differences are between the lolographic lettering system of CJK characters and the alphabet-based systems of the Latin letters we use.
Susanne Zippel

Susanne Zippel

In 1998, Susanne Zippel graduated with a diploma in Communication Design from the Academy of the Arts of Berlin-Weißensee. She lived and worked in South East Asia for ten years. She is the author of »Fachchinesisch Typographie«, a book recently published by Hermann Schmidt Publishers in Mainz,... Read More

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