Things I do
since 2009	Font finishing service for type designers, i.e. making typefaces ready for release. Clients include Viktor Solt-Bittner, Brass-Fonts, Facetype and the Typejockeys.
since 2008	Magazine editor for “4c Magazine for Print and Design,” mostly about Mac software and hardware, Vienna, Austria.
since 2005	Freelance translator Dutch/German (a.o. Gerard Unger’s While You’re Reading).
since 2003	Type design workshops, introductory and intermediate courses in type design, a.o. for the Graphische and the Typographische Gesellschaft Austria, both in Vienna. Since 2008 also internationally.
since 2002	Type design for numerous graphic design projects.
since 2000	Teacher at the Graphische, Vienna: Typography, Illustration, Theoretical and Applied Media Design, Media Technology.
Things I used to do
2009–2011	Book design for “edition a” publishing house, Vienna, Austria; included cover designs as well as typography.
2007–2010	Poster design for the TU Delft, Netherlands.
2006–2007	German teacher at the Hogeschool Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2003–2004	Cartoonist for “Konstruktiv,” the magazine of the Austrian board of architects and civil engineers; and other clients.
1999–2003	Infographic designer at daily newspaper “WirtschaftsBlatt”, Vienna.
1998–2005	Freelance photographer: Miscellaneous photo assignments, a.o. reports and portraits.
1997–2005	Illustrations for “Freizeit” magazine. Creations of weekly published graphics and illustrations for the weekend supplement of Austrian daily newspaper “Kurier”.
1997–1998	Art director at “One World” event and PR agency. Responsible for corporate and logo designs as well as graphic assignments for various events.
1996–2006	Freelance graphic designer: Focus on page design and corporate design.
Education
2003–2013	Dutch Studies at the University of Vienna.
2003–2012	Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Thesis on Immanuel Kant.
1997–1999	Photography and Visual Media at Graphische, Vienna. Diploma with Honors in September 1999.
Skills and stuff
Languages	German (mother tongue, traditional and reformed orthography), English, Dutch (native-like), Afrikaans (fluent), French (moderate).
IT skills	Focus on Mac OS based systems and design-centered software, as well as workflow optimization through AppleScript and other means of automation. I am experienced in FontLab Studio, Glyphs, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark XPress, TextMate and other common applications.
Software licenses	I own valid licenses to Mac OS X, Adobe Creative Suite, Quark XPress, FontLab Studio, Fontographer, Glyphs, Robofont, OTMaster, Prepolator, Superpolator, MetricsMachine, RoundingUFO, UFOstretch, LNS ScriptDebugger, TextMate and various other software.
Driver’s license	European B category
Private interests	Movies (Nouvelle Vague, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Hal Hartley, Patricia Rozema), music (Beethoven, Mahler, Stravinsky, Reich), scripting (JavaScript, AppleScript, Python), cartoons and comics.
Prizes and awards
2000	Honorary membership in the Verein für Qualität im Journalismus (Association for Journalistic Quality), Vienna.
1998	Winner of the Stockerau Municipal Logo competition (town in Austria).
1998	Winner of the logo design competition for the FTW (Research Center for Telecommunications, Vienna).
1996	Winner of the Imagine’96 computer graphics competition.

Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer.

Born on 8 March 1977 in Vienna, Austria. For further questions, feel free to contact me via e-mail.

I am one of the founding members of the Typographical Society Austria, established in 2002, and to me Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer is the leading Austrian specialist in the field of type technology.

His knowledge and skills in digitizing play an essential part in our attempt to compensate Austria’s historical deficit regarding typographic culture and type design. Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer is helping us to achieve our aims (the creation of a typographic tradition in Austria, internationality – as opposed to provinciality – through mutual non-competitive exchange of knowledge and experience, application and appreciation of typography, education in design and technology). He does so not only through his exceptional expertise in Unicode and both methods of and software for font generation, but also, crucially, by sharing and passing on his knowledge to the young generation and older and established people willing to learn.

In many courses and individual lessons he has worked with beginners and professionals, showing high personal commitment, patience and understanding. For beginners he uses simple, easy to follow methods, professionals are given crucial assistance with specific problems related to font design. His highly responsible teaching activities are based on an attitude of perpetual learning, a basic characteristic of his personality.

Recommendation by Martin Tiefenthaler.

Martin is the driving force behind the TGA, the Austrian Society for Typography, and a typography teacher at the Graphische, where he regularly organizes guest lectures by international type designers such as Gerard Unger, Luc de Groot, Jeremy Tankard and others.

Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, to me, is both a good friend and a trustworthy partner.

I like his slightly cerebral way, his way to address things, his journal comic mekka blue. A nice piece of satire — with a true background.

When it comes to computers, he is my first address. I always ask Rainer first — about software, news, and whenever I have problems with my G5, whatever it is. Without him, a lot would simply not work in my studio, computer-wise that is.

His black and white photography fascinates me, and his (occasionally very) eccentric humor keeps cracking me up.

His most important traits are his reliability and his endurance when dealing with problems — Rainer keeps working on it until it’s solved, when others would have given up a long time ago.

He is there when you need him, and he is good and amusing company, even though, for my taste, he is a bit too much into Woody Allen. ;-)

Rainer, I wish you all the best, and hope to keep you as a friend for a long time to come!

Recommendation by Ronald Putzker.

Ronnie is an Austrian graphic designer and photographer, and one of the country’s leading sequential artists. He is internationally known for his bestselling graphic novels Anna Stein, Inspector Burnadz and Aglaya.

I got to know Erik via his delightful webcomic. When he hadn’t been updating for a while, I sent him a message, only to learn that he had temporarily moved to Rotterdam.

At that point in time, I was organising a debate for the Platform of Ethics and Technology at Delft University on the virtual world of Second Life. So we met over a cup of coffee and I asked if he would be interested in designing a poster for us.

Since the entire campus is swamped with posters trying to get the attention of the students, I wanted something really catching. So I asked Erik if he could think of something. And he did most successfully, capturing the concept of cyberethics and the digital world in a very creative way using Michelangelo’s hands of Adam and God.

Not long thereafter, I was involved with organising a two day workshop on The Ethics of Neuroimaging. Another concept that is not easy to make explicit in a single picture. Erik came up with several nice ideas. We discarded one of them because it was too much in the style of the Second Life debate poster, and this workshop was not organised by the same platform.

Erik supplied us not only with a design for the poster and flyers, but also added a lot of very useful variations on the logo we could use, for instance for the visitor badges, the booklet, the website, etc etc.

When one of our keynote speakers had to cancel and we found a replacement speaker, he provided us with overlays for the already printed posters and altered the designs without much ado.

It was a pleasure!

Testimonial by Saskia Polder.

Saskia Polder-Verkiel works at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. More precisely, she is a representative of the Department of Philosophy, and as such, she is, amongst other things, organizing international conferences and workshops. By the way, she calls me “Erik”, since in Dutch (as in most languages besides my native German), I am usually referred to by my middle name. I enjoyed working with her and the people at her department a lot. Plus, I got free coffee at every meeting. :-)