Video: Astrid Bin – Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character

Astrid Bin jumped in for Berlin’s 2025 edition on short notice. In a video chat about two weeks before the event it was clear that she’s a perfect fit. For beyond tellerrand. For the closing slot, For the audience of beyond tellerrand.

In her presentation, she is targeting our dorkiness and asks us in a lovely way to be a little more dorky in our daily life/work.

Watch this wonderful closing talk in our YouTube channel, as well as here and on her beyond tellerrand profile.

Dork Patterns: The Story of Little Character

This is the story of the time I went on a wild goose chase, trying to capture a font that kept eluding me. This mysterious font seemed to have no origin, no author, no history, and maybe wasn’t even really a font at all.

In this talk I tell the story of how this font took a circuitous route through the early days of Silicon Valley, passed by the inventor of the camera phone, through a compiler, and hid for over three decades inside legacy software before becoming my months-long obsession. This is how I (and others) tracked down its origins, how it proves that everything a designer does counts, and that we’re all much more interconnected than we think.

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More information about and photos of Astrid Bin on her beyond tellerrand speaker profile page

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