KRZYSZTOF LENK
Krzysztof (Kris) Lenk, 1936–2018, a renowned graphic designer, information architect, and consultant in visual logic. Professor at Łódź Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Poland (1973–1982), and Rhode Island School of Design in the USA (1982–2010). Co-founder and creative director of studio Dynamic Diagrams (1990–2001).
“Good typography is not rooted in the technology of composition or printing, but in the complicated processes of human perception.”
–Krzysztof Lenk
PASS IT ON: DESIGN, TEACHING, LIFE
RETROSPECTIVE
CATALOG
SIX LESSONS IN
TYPOGRAPHY
A short documentary in which Krzysztof Lenk recounts his career as a designer and educator.
Other Books & Essays
| Krzysztof Lenk, Paul Kahn (1997). “Krysztof Lenk and Paul Kahn: Dynamic Diagrams”, chapter in Richard Saul Wurman, Information Architects. New York: Graphis. pp. 190–201. ISBN 9781888001389 |
| Krszysztof Lenk (2009). Projects and Doodles / Projekty i bazgroly. Gdańsk, Poland: słowo/obraz teorytoria. ISBN 978-83-7453-914-2 |
| Krzysztof Lenk (2010). Pokazać. Wyjaśnić. Prowadzić. / To show. To explain. To guide. Cieszyn, Poland: Śląski Zamek Sztuki i Przedsiębiorczości. ISBN 9788392954194 |
| Paul Kahn, Krzysztof Lenk (2001). Mapping Web Sites. RotoVision SA. ISBN 2880464641 |
| Krzysztof Lenk (2011). “Czarne na białyn, w ruchu…”, chapter in Przemek Dębowski and Jacek Mrowczyk, Widzieć/Wiedzieć, Wybór najważniejszych tekstów o dizajnie. Kraków, Poland: Karakter. pp. 429–435. ISBN 978-83-62376-90-2 |
| Krzysztof Lenk (2011). Krotkie teksty o sztuce projektowania. Gdańsk, Poland: słowo/obraz teorytoria. ISBN 9788374539982 |
| Krzysztof Lenk (2011). Typografia – Wystawa prac studentów programu typografii, Wykład “Słowa i teksty“, Warsztat z typografii. Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu. ISBN 9788388400780 |
Articles & Journal Papers
| Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk. 1992. To Show and Explain: The Information Graphics of Stevin and Comenius. Visible Language, Vol. 26, No. 3-4 (Summer/Autumn 1992), pp. 272-281. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234713997_To_Show_and_Explain_The_Information_Graphics_of_Stevin_and_Comenius Paul Kahn and Krzysztof Lenk. 1998. “Design: principles of typography for user interface design.” Interactions 5(6): 15 (Nov./Dec. 1998). https://doi.org/10.1145/287821.287825 David Zeltzer, Ann M. Bisantz, Krzysztof Lenk, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Randall W. Simons. 1998. “Visualization (panel): the hard problems.” In ACM SIGGRAPH 98 Conference abstracts and applications (SIGGRAPH ’98). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1145/280953.281550 Kahn, Paul, Krzysztof Lenk and Piotr Kaczmarek. “Applications of isometric projection for visualizing web sites.” Information Design Journal 10 (2001): 221-228. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/idj.10.3.03kah |
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