We had the pleasure again this year to visit the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022 which took place for the 74th time. After two…
Typodarium 2023
A 365 Day Type Calendar
With a sure instinct and a global network, Raban Ruddigkeit and Lars Harmsen are always scouting new fonts. The most exciting find…
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type
Autumn/Winter 2022/23
Mum probably told us, “The oven is a danger zone.” Still, we had to experiment our first burn to know how hot…
MC1R Magazine #7
The Magazine for Redheads
There is a new issue of MC1R Magazine #7 —The Magazine for Redheads and we love it! The blow up issue represents the…
Buchbinderei Spinner
Don’t forget the bookbinders …
We were recently allowed to take a look at the bookbindery Spinner in Ottersweier in the northern Black Forest, which has been…
Film Festival Cologne
Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 2
It moves organically in nature. Its texture is familiar to us in a pleasant way. It breathes. Its surface is smooth and…
Call for Submissions Yearbook of Lettering 2023/24
Become Part of the First Edition
After six successful editions of the typeface compendium Yearbook of Type, we are now starting a new series of books dedicated to lettering:…
the books are alright
Symposium on Book Design
The Institut für Buchgestaltung (IFB) at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences invites you to celebrate the medium book at the symposium the…
Make it Circular Challenge
By What Design Can Do
What if we could get to the root of the climate crisis, and make our lives not less but more fulfilling at…
Making Of Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type
Daring with Type
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type is in production and will be published end of October! This issue is all about experiments with type—offering…
Büchertempel
Die schönsten Bibliotheken aus aller Welt
Libraries are so much more than collections of books. They are archives of knowledge, sources of inspiration, places of equal learning, encounter,…
Raskal
By Swiss Typefaces
Raskal is a visual statement. Its design digitally translates and transforms handwriting and hand lettering’s most exciting elements. Although it has a…
FURE Magazine
The Future of Reading
People are reading, everywhere. There is more text in this world than ever before. Because humanity writes and reads more than ever…
Babyn Yar
Past, Present, Future
“These are, as of the date of publication, the 28,016 known names of those killed in Babyn Yar:” In the center of…
On September 28th, the opening of the exhibition 60 Years of Forte, which honors the typeface of the same name, took place…
Weltformat Graphic Design Festival 2022
Never Not Moving
Six exhibitions, a symposium with international graphic artists, a competition for newcomers and panel discussions sum up this years edition of Weltformat.…
finding Forte
A Typographic Search for Traces
Forte, this lively and friendly typeface that everyone knows, has been used, misused, and overused for over six decades now, ever since…
Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper
By Jeremy Tankard
October’s Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper is designed and published by Jeremy Tankard Typography. Rockhopper plays with the idea of two typefaces in…
NaN Success
By NaN
NaN Success is the latest release by Jérémy Landes at Berlin-based label NaN. The three sub-families—Success Titling, Success Sans, and Success Text—all…
Forward Festival Berlin 2022—Recap
Forward Went Day and Night: 13 Hours of Non-stop Creativity
We were lucky enough to be invited to the Forward Festival Berlin 2022 and spend two inspiring days in Berlin from September…
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