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Oliver Reichenstein

@reichenstein.bsky.social
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Founder of iA. iA.net

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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Had a great time giving the talk on Madness and Imagination this morning at Beyond Tellerrand #btconf. Here are the slides (raw unedited). I'm on the way to Berlin right now. Will be back tomorrow. sharing.ia.net/presenter/b5...
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Madness and Imagination
Madness and Imagination Dare to Know, Dare to Imagine, Dare to Make
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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 11/03/2026
You boss needs to be convinced that the investment for #btconf for you is worth every cent? Here are arguments to tell him it‘s a great investment! beyondtellerrand.com/convince-you...
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Why Your Employee Should Attend beyond tellerrand
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...
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iA @ia.net · 16/12/2025
20 years of iA in Wallpapers. This set celebrates the launch of iA Writer for Windows in 2018. ia.net/topics/ia-wi...
Windows Start Button Focus and Caret, day mode Focus and Caret, night mode
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iA @ia.net · 09/12/2025
Today’s wallpaper set illustrates the infinite fascination of looking at letters up close. ia.net/topics/ia-wi...
Lowercase g from close * 24.
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iA Notebook @notebook.ia.net · 13/11/2025
Last day today. The iA Notebook pop-up at Tsutaya Books Daikanyama runs until November 13. You can try writing and feel the texture of the paper. If you can’t visit, the notebook is also available online: store.ia.net store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/e...
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【フェア】日本店頭初販売、「iA Notebook」で書くことをはじめよう。 | 代官山T-SITE
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 07/11/2025
Who wrote this? Did I or ChatGPT? What if you could see it at a glance? With iA Writer you can. It clearly separates generated text from human authors. ia.net/topics/see-w...
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iA @ia.net · 01/11/2025
iA Notebook at T-SITE, Tsutaya Books Daikanyama, Tokyo. store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/e...
iA Notebook at T-SITE, Tsutaya Books Daikanyama, Tokyo.iA Notebook at T-SITE, Tsutaya Books Daikanyama, Tokyo.iA Notebook at T-SITE, Tsutaya Books Daikanyama, Tokyo.iA Notebook at T-SITE, Tsutaya Books Daikanyama, Tokyo.
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I've always wanted to see iA Writer on posters in the streets of Zurich. This week we took a few days to make a draft. What do you think? They are inspired by the VW bug ads from Ogilvy. I think they work as posters as well as magazine ads (magazine ads are not gonna happen though).
iA Writer Poster (English)iA Writer Poster (German)
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 10/09/2025
Really enjoyed @reichenstein.bsky.social‘s thoughtful and entertaining talk at #smashingconf today! Amazing to see how philosophical ideas influenced the design of iA’s apps and what designers can and could learn from philosophy – and vice versa. A lot of food for thought!
Oliver on stage, wearing a suit and raising his arms, with the title slide of the talk next to him that reads Philosophy for Designers
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Marc Thiele @marcthiele.com · 10/09/2025
This is happening when you are REALLY into your talk. Thanks so much, @reichenstein.bsky.social ! Great joy watching you at @smashingconf.com
Oliver Reichenstein in stage rubbing his stomachOliver Reichenstein on stage wildly gesturing
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Here is my final draft of the presentation for tomorrows Smashing talk in Freiburg: sharing.ia.net/presenter/be... There will be still a lot of editing. I the spirit of the talk: Face the truth, feedback for this prototype is very very welcome.
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Philosophy for Designers
Oliver Reichenstein Philosophy for Designers Freiburg, September 10th 2025
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 03/09/2025
iA Presenter is on ProductHunt, today: www.producthunt.com/products/ia-...
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iA Presenter: Instant Slides | Product Hunt
Most presentation apps make us spend hours fiddling with layouts, colors, and fonts… only to end up with boring, cluttered slides. iA Presenter takes a different approach: it lets you focus on your st...
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 28/08/2025
Imagine a presentation app that allows you to write professional presentations in under 20 minutes. Its beautiful typographic templates automatically scale to any screen. Create, fine-tune, rehearse, and present your deck anywhere. And, you can do all of that on a phone. 
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A Presentation App That Works on Your Phone
iA Presenter is now available on iPhone, iPad and Mac
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iA @ia.net · 14/07/2025
Imagine a form field that looks and feels like your phone’s screen has a real indent. If the glass effect is tied directly to the surface interaction, the animation would feel consistent… ia.net/topics/liqui...
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Liquid Glass
Design or Kitsch?
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Great work from the team designing the iA Booth for Life Style Week at Tokyo Big Site. Come by to say hi if you're there. www.lifestyle-expo.jp/hub/en-gb.html
iA Booth at Tokyo Big Site Lifestyle WeekiA Logo in white.
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iA Notebook @notebook.ia.net · 30/06/2025
The iA Team will be at the LIFESTYLE Week TOKYO fair (Big Sight) this week to showcase our award-winning iA Notebook. Come by our booth and say hello! www.lifestyle-expo.jp/hub/en-gb.html
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Japan’s Leading Tokyo Lifestyle trade show | Discover Lifestyle Trends
Join LIFESTYLE Week Tokyo to discover the latest lifestyle trends in gifts, stationery, homeware, and fashion. Connect with 45,000+ high-quality international buyers at Japan’s leading B2B lifestyle t...
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Second time at Infinite Loop. First ADA nomination. First time at Apple Park.
At Apple ParkADA Finalist pinAt Infinite Loop
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iA @ia.net · 06/06/2025
Design awards usually go to what’s new. But here’s the paradox: The only way to tell if a design is really good is if it stands the test of time. So getting picked after 15 years is good news for good design. For ideas that hold up. For products built to last. ia.net/topics/apple...
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Apple Design Award Finalist After 15 Years
Good design takes time
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iA @ia.net · 03/06/2025
iA Writer is a finalist for the Apple Design Awards 2025! developer.apple.com/design/awards/
Apple Design Awards 2025
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Cleaning up the website for iA's 20th anniversary this year. Almost through all the illustrations. About 20 are missing and some are still lame. We will go through all of them and fix tagging, categorization and formatting, too. Try to find hi res images, where available. Taking care.
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Blog illustration two x SocratesBlog illustration for blog post (Writing and Staying Motivated) with asterisk in the background Illustration for blog post "Ethics for Designers" showing pixels gun with mouse pointer holding it
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Johny Ive: "... the problem is that much of my contribution you can’t easily measure with a number." 
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“What we make stands testament to who we are.”
Jony Ive and the philosophy of design
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iA @ia.net · 06/05/2025
"To understand bread you need to make bread." Without using our hands to create what we want to understand, we do not properly comprehend what we read or hear. ia.net/topics/maker...
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Maker’s Knowledge
We only know what we made ourselves or: Why we want to know how things are made.
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iA @ia.net · 01/05/2025
The third Tokyo Focus Track just went live. We wrote a little blog post about our new little series: ia.net/topics/tokyo...
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Tokyo Focus Tracks
Sitting on a train, you don’t need to do anything—you just move forward. It’s the perfect mindset for writing.
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
They call it Meta, because that company is a parody of a parody.
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
From the limited insights of I got into how tech people are communicating among themselves, this describes it very well: www.semafor.com/article/04/2... By @semaforben.bsky.social
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iA @ia.net · 23/04/2025
Our second Tokyo Focus Track: Take the full 360 on the Yamanote Line with us. Big type. Train sounds to chill and write. youtu.be/w913VyhFTbE
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Tokyo Focus Track 02 - Yamanote Line
YouTube video by iA Inc.
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iA @ia.net · 22/04/2025
We're humbled and honored and... No! We're completely hysterical, pompous and showing off. We've earned it. ia.net/topics/ia-no...
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IA Notebook Wins Red Dot: Best Of The Best 2025
The iA Notebook has just won the Red Dot “Best of the Best” in Product Design 2025.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧵 Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky. He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070... 🔭 🧪 #galactic
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
You know Laravel? We're hiring: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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iA Inc. hiring Laravel Full Stack Developer in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | LinkedIn
Posted 1:23:27 PM. Role DescriptionWe are looking for a Laravel Full Stack Developer at iA Inc. The role will involve…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I wanted to quickly explain why, school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing another major Epos: ia.net/topics/markd... This is, I kid you not, about 1/6th of what I wrote. I'll publish the rest later.
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Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish
Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What is more calming than looking at type from close? Riding the Tokyo Metro line? How about doing both at the same time? 
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 With iA turning 20 years in 2025, we’re launching an audio series that captures the relaxing atmosphere of these journeys with big type.
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Tokyo focus tracks - Keihin Tohoku line
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I have a similar respect for Miyazaki and his team as I do for Van Gogh, Aristotle, Beethoven or Ingeborg Bachmann. Seeing Princess Mononoke in the 90ties was a revelation. Every single movie he made left a big impression on me. I cannot possibly use the Ghibli generator—just imagine how he feels…
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
For a change, here's a movie tip: Adolescence, directed by Philip Barantini is a masterwork. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolesc... It's so good that I want to watch everything Barantini has done. Every episode is one shot. But it's not just technically breathtaking. The acting, the writing, everything.
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Adolescence (TV series) - Wikipedia
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 08/03/2025
Gareth’s Storytelling workshop for MCR Pathways, made with Presenter: sharing.ia.net/presenter/b3... (Proud of something you’ve made? Share it with us at support@ia.net)
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The Art of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling Midday, Tuesday 4th March 2025
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iA Writer @writer.ia.net · 26/02/2025
iA Writer for Windows 2.0: Enjoy a faster startup time, total UI refresh, and improved tools to help you write. ia.net/topics/ia-wr...
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Room with a View: iA Writer for Windows 2.0
Last December we released the iA Writer for Windows 2.0 beta as part of the iA Winterfest giveaway. After further tweaks and testing we're pleased to announce that the update has been released.
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 19/02/2025
iA Sharing: The easiest way to share dynamic presentations. Stop worrying about 3rd party upload services, oversized email attachments, and restrictive file-protocols. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PHe...
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Web Sharing for iA Presenter [Extended]
YouTube video by iA Inc.
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iA Writer @writer.ia.net · 15/02/2025
iA is proud to support NYC Midnight’s 2025 Screenwriting Challenge again. The Challenge gives writers the chance to show off their skills and win prizes, including their own copy of iA Writer or the iA Notebook. @nycmidnight.bsky.social ia.net/topics/nyc-m...
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NYC Midnight: Screenwriting Challenge 2025
We are sponsoring NYC Midnight's 2025 Screenwriting Challenge for the second year running.
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
‪This is brilliant and as long as there is intelligence, there is hope. By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.
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iA @ia.net · 13/02/2025
A new batch of iA Notebooks is available at the shop of Kunsthaus Zürich, home to one of Switzerland’s finest art collections. ❤️
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iA @ia.net · 03/02/2025
After reviewing a vast number of submissions, we’re pleased to announce the winners of the first iA Awards. It wasn’t about perfection—it was about stories that made an impact. Discover the voices that stood out: ia.net/topics/ia-aw...
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iA Awards: The Winners
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: the 2024 iA Award winners are...
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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 14/01/2025
The Fediverse to be real must cross competitive lines. Users may want to use both Instagram and Pixelfed. I never believed that Zuck’s company, what ever he calls it, had gone all kumbaya. www.404media.co
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 13/01/2025
I am thinking about Pablo Casals, one of the greatest cellists of all time, when was asked, at the age of 81, why he practiced four to five hours a day, Casals said: “Because I think I am making progress.”
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We need to move away from all of Meta. Now. Zuckerberg and his circle of tech moguls are driven by the same kind of world domination fantasies we’ve seen unfolding in Trump. Bluesky might work, but Mastodon still seems like the most viable option to me. www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
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‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes
Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 04/01/2025
Good idea, good concept, good execution, good design: iA Presenter. 💪 @reichenstein.bsky.social ia.net/topics/share...
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Share Your Presentation in a Single Click
Sharing a presentation should be quick. But it's slow. Viewing a presentation should be easy. But it's hard. Until now.
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iA @ia.net · 03/01/2025
What is all the best, anyway? It sounds like the best is something else for each of us. So we just say “I wish you all the best”, move on, completely forgetting the common trait that the best has. The common trait of all the best is that it’s not owned but shared. sharing.ia.net/presenter/14...
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Someone’s Very Best New Year’s Wish
Someone’s Very Best New Year’s Wish
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A new Bobby Fingers for Christmas. Breathtaking as expected. youtu.be/NF4VJJKTjy8?...
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Joe Rogan and The Black Keys Diorama
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Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The most Swiss thing I can think of is that we clean our tunnels. Apparently, we have been cleaning our tunnels for over 50 years. Apparently it's done for safety, but the real reason is that clean tunnels are just more Swiss than dirty tunnels.
Swiss tunnel cleaning truck in action
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 25/12/2024
Our final iA Winterfest 2024 gift brings even more eye candy to your devices with the iA Presenter screen saver. ia.net/topics/ia-pr...
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iA Presenter Screen Saver
Our final iA Winterfest 2024 gift brings even more eye candy to your devices with the iA Presenter screen saver.
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iA Presenter @presenter.ia.net · 19/12/2024
With Presenter you can share your presentation using just a link. It works in any browser, on any device.
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Web Sharing for iA Presenter
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iA @ia.net · 18/12/2024
Sharing a presentation should be quick. But it’s slow. Viewing a presentation should be easy. But it’s hard. Until now. ia.net/topics/share... With Presenter you can share your presentation using just a link—that works in any browser on any device.
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Share Your Presentation in a Single Click
Sharing a presentation should be quick. But it's slow. Viewing a presentation should be easy. But it's hard. Until now.
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