Indra Kupferschmid

Indra Kupferschmid (2010)

Indra Kupferschmid (* 1973 in Fulda ) is a German typographer and professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken. She currently lives in Bonn and Saarbrücken.

Indra Kupferschmid studied visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar and graduated from the Dutch type designer Fred Smeijers. Since 1997 she has been teaching typography at the HGB Leipzig , FH Bielefeld , Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HTWK Leipzig , Burg Giebichenstein Halle / Saale , FH Düsseldorf and giving lectures and workshops at home and abroad.

She has been researching font classification for many years and is a member of the DIN standards committee . Their classification according to the form principle is u. a. published in Hans Peter Willberg : Wegweiser Schrift , Max Bollwage: Typografie Kompakt and their typography manual Letters rarely come alone (awarded as one of the most beautiful German books in 2002).

literature

• Indra Kupferschmid: Letters rarely come alone . Niggli-Verlag, Sulgen CH 2004. ISBN 3-7212-0501-4
• Helvetica forever. History of a script . Lars Müller Publishers 2007. ISBN 978-3-03778-120-3
• Lars-Christian Uhlig (ed.): New building on the horn: a model estate in Weimar . Bauhaus University Weimar, 2005. ISBN 3-86068-246-6
• Walter Stamm-Teske, Lars-Christian Uhlig and Indra Kupferschmid: Inexpensive housing construction in Austria. A selection of projects . Publishing house Bau + Technik 2001
• Indra Kupferschmid in: Bauhaus women - teachers and graduates of the Bauhaus University Weimar , exhibition catalog, 2019, p. 102 ff.