The visual concept for the book was to follow the character of the installation. The see-through quality of the book echoes the transparent character of “Oasis No.8” itself. The first and last pages of the book, including the cover, were printed on transparent paper. A feature that brought a challenge of its own in printing. The curved text beginnings with „banana swing“, first a mistake. The printed WhatsApp conversation, never questioned. Made with thread stitching, the book features numerous large-scale photographs as well as scientifical data carefully shown in infographics, and texts from several authors, in both German and English.
Uncanny
Unheimlich (“Uncanny”) is a reference to Freud’s term.
I undertook to embody the uncanny and surround the negative space with a ragged repetition of the title and idea of the book – “Unheimlich” as the essence of this term – a meeting with something very familiar, which leaves an ominous feeling.
This repetition principle is expressed on the front as well as on the back cover to become one unit. The back cover inherits the points from the letter i, extracted from the front cover word “Unheimlich”. It is a reference to a poetic rhyme, when words from one line convey particles of the sounds from the previous one.
Thus, Unheimlich is dark poetry and an uncanny encounter with the past.
SOLO
SOLO is the first self published book by designer, photographer and author Nikolai Dobreff.
The book collects words and photos from a trip through South America. Nikolai fled heart broken to Rio de Janeiro and turned his diary entries from more than 2 months traveling into ten melancholic stories. “Too much gone to stay yourself”. In addition to the texts, the book also contains over 70 photographs from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
172 Pages. Paper: Mohawk Extra Rough & Munken Lynx. Open multicolored thread stitching. Transparent Hot Foil Stamping on the cover. Swiss Brochure.
Wines of Santorini
The wines of Santorini is a comprehensive guide and visual trip to the magic island of Santorini and its wines narrated by Yiannis Karakasis a Greek Master of Wine. The book consists of twelve chapters where experimental illustrations introduce each one. The layout has enough space for the reader to take time and enjoy reading the facts and history while going through poetic photography.
Overall the unique feeling of the book is something that hardly can be found in wine publications.
DOSIS 3
A club as an exhibition venue:In summer 2021, after more than a year of pandemic-induced downtime, the Institut fuer Zukunft (IfZ) reopened its doors to host two exhibitions, DOSIS 1 and DOSIS 2. Works were produced by a total of 58 artists, who took over the premises. The book contains views of the exhibited artworks, demonstrating the (im)possibility of combining the ideas of club culture and artistic production. It also contains material on the works on display and essays. The book is not a record of the exhibition; rather, it shows how the club can be transformed, with a period of crisis causing new ideas to be implemented.
– IfZ is an electronic music club in Leipzig, founded in 2014
daemon
Daemon is a photographic novel with text and pictures from photographer Malte Sänger. Using assistive technology he assumed the position of the DAEMON in order to understand the condition and feeling of being constantly enveloped. The result of these various approaches and observations is a diffuse look into our present and also a look into the future: where will new technologies and artificial intelligence take us? The question is unresolved, and the viewer has the feeling that he is enveloped by an intangible plasma cloud – the DAEMON.
Silver Award German Photo Book Prize 20|21
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Photo credit: Harry Griffin
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Design: Laura Coombs
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Editor: Mindy Seu
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Publisher: Inventory Press
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Biblio-Graph.org
Biblio-graph is a work-in-progress web application developed by Archival Consciousness in collaboration with de Appel Archive. The images are captured by staff, researchers, and the community of the archive and published on biblio-graph.org. Fragments of publications can be visualised in a timeline, browsed in a map view or as a graph of relations. The graph shows the network of people, organisations and publications in the archive. With biblio-graph, we are experimenting with graph technologies and linked data in the front end to map the collection and aggregate visual information into the database, which later will be annotated to enrich metadata and data from the content of publications.
Rijksmuseum Cookbook
Irma Boom has designed a remarkable cookbook for the Rijkmuseum. Printed on very thin, parchment-like paper, it features hundreds of full-color illustrations of objects from the collection.
In the cookbook, 50 ingredients characteristic of Dutch cuisine – from potatoes and seaweed to cod and eel – form the basis for 130 traditional and modern dishes. The recipes are inspired by paintings from the museum’s collection.
24 Stunden
„24 Stunden“ is a book project that both visualizes time and allows you to physically count it. It includes a total of 24 books, each visualizing one hour of the day and each page representing one second of the day. At the intersection of each hour to the next, the book can be put together to form a circle, creating the image of a clock.
While the books can function as a kind of calendar and offer the opportunity to record moments and experiences, tied to a very specific time, they can also be used as a stopwatch or timer. It takes about as long to turn the pages as the time indicated on the pages. The book spine with the ruler printed on it can be used as a tool for measuring objects.
Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age
“Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age” examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. The book includes over twenty interviews with major figures in design.
On the level of design the first part contains a more academic account of the research, while in the second part the design team proposed to analyze the texts with the help of machine learning algorithms and thus to rearrange them in thematic fields.
Research team: Demian Conrad, Rob van Leijsen, David Héritier
Graphic Design: Johnson/Kingston
If you’ve seen it all close your eyes – Coco Capitán
“If you’ve seen it all, close your eyes” presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán’s handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts – everywhere, all the time – often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán’s writings grant an insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony.
Elements
Based on a collaboration between art and cultural institutions in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg and Liège, Elements is a publication-catalogue that gathers a series of art and design exhibitions and programs that have taken place in 2021. It was commissioned and published by the Jan van Eyck Academy, where Offshore was part of a residency program in 2020/21. The conceptualization and editing of this book was in the hands of Jan van Eyck alumni Jessica Gysel and Offshore. Offshore was also responsible for the Art Direction and graphic design.
AGI New Members (2007–2017)
The book, edited and designed by Jianping He, and published by hesign in 2018, includes most updated design works of more than 200 new members of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) from the last ten years. Each new member also expresses his/her opinions on the current situation that graphic design is now facing. The unique book design won the the Macau Design Award 2019, the Red Dot Grand Prix 2019 and the iF Design Award 2020.
Sc(hrift)rolle / Wer wir sein wollen
Ferdinand von Schirach spricht in seinem Buch “Jeder Mensch” von alten Utopien, die Bestandteil unseres Grundgesetzes waren/sind und stellt die Frage, ob wir nicht neue Utopien brauchen, um den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu begegnen. Dazu schlägt er sechs neue Grundrechte vor, welche zusammen mit der Charta der Grundrechte der EU die textliche Basis dieses Projektes bilden.
Die Sc(hrift)rolle ist ein scrollbares Buch oder wenn man so will ein analoger Onepager. Es gibt keine Seiten und so ist Leser*innen kein Springen oder Blättern zwischen Kapiteln möglich, wodurch sie stärker an die vorgegebene Reihenfolge des Inhalts gebunden sind.
6,000 DANDELIONS
6,000 dandelions from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Massachusetts. The dandelions have been picked, pressed, dried, and laminated between clear plastic sheets.
Daemon von Veerle Vervliet
it is a Photobook, developed during the time of covid-19. A work together with Malte Sänger.
Anfachen Award VII
The Anfachen Award VII has launched its call for submissions. This time it’s about how you perceive, interpret, and artistically implement the idea of ENERGY! Your posters should inspire aesthetically and cause a stir.
You are free to choose from which personal, political, aesthetic, or formal angle you want to approach the subject of “energy.” We accept photographic, painted, graphic, and typographic works. With your participation you accept the following conditions.
The 25 best posters will be selected by an international jury and will first be displayed in Hamburg. They will confront the public in busy streets and highly frequented squares, become a subject of discussion and reflection, and thus encourage a broad and sustained debate on the topic.
Starting in June 2023, the selected posters will first dominate Hamburg’s cityscape for four weeks and then go on tour. In this way they will be seen in other German cities and also cause a stir internationally. Therefore, if language plays a role in the design, a German and an English version must be submitted.
A maximum of three posters can be submitted. The posters are to be in DIN A0 / 841 mm × 1189 mm format. We only accept designs in portrait format. The data (tif or PDF in CMYK) upload on the Website. If a poster is selected as one of the top 25, the printable data will be requested separately.
Anfachen Award VII
Jury: Larissa Bertonasco (GER), Erick Ginard (MEX), Haika Hinze (GER), Mandy Kunze (GER), 2xGoldstein (GER), Arseniy Zhukavin (RUS),
Patron: Klaus Staeck
Submission deadline: May 7th, 2023
Opening of the poster exhibition in the streets of Hamburg: June 28th, 2023
Posters can be displayed worldwide (looking always for new cooperation partners): August, 2023
Local Print Studio
In June and September, Metapaper organizes Local Print Studio with more than 40 partners from print and design, an afternoon of full paper, and print fun.
For the Local Print Studios, Metapaper has teamed up with exciting local printers in each region to inform you about all kinds of printing techniques, finishing, bindings, as well as future trends in paper and printing. Best of all, it will all take place in one afternoon in a relaxed atmosphere with snacks and drinks.
Topics that you can look forward to
- How and where can I have my small print runs printed? And where is the right place for bigger print runs?
- What printing techniques are there and what are they suitable for? What is behind Riso, letterpress or indigo digital printing, for instance?
- What types of finishing and bindings are available in my region?
- And of course there are lots of creative print examples of every type and great giveaways.
Olaf Stein, Creative Director of Metapaper: “With the Local Print Studios, we want to offer agencies, designers, students and companies the opportunity to get as much inspiration as possible about paper and print from their own region in a relaxed atmosphere in one afternoon. From print run one to infinity, in every conceivable printing technology and with just about every finishing and binding.”
Local Print Studio
June 15th, 2023, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.: Letterpress Gallery p98a in Berlin
June 22nd, 2023, 2 p.m.–8 p.m.: Kernweine Gallery in Stuttgart
June 29th, 2023, 2 p.m.–8 p.m.: Fotostudio G3 in Munich
September 14th, 2023, 3 p.m.–8 p.m.: Kunst und Haltung in Düsseldorf
September 19th, 2023, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.: Cantina Fux & Ganz in Hamburg
Visit here to sign up for the Local Print Studio in your region for free.
Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design)
On occasion of the Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design), we are happy to welcome you to a small get-together. With a short introduction by the editors, refreshments, and the possibility to buy a copy of the design classic!
The facsimile reprint of the book Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of german design history. In 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt questioned the way design objects were generally perceived, talked, and written about. They were looking for an alternative understanding of what constitutes good design. The group led by Friedrich Friedl and Gerd Ohlhauser started to collect ordinary things such as bottle openers, air pumps or bus timetables. These objects, all from anonymous authors, were exhibited at the faculty under the title Das gewöhnliche Design.
The approach was original enough so that the Rhenish Open-Air and Regional Museum Kommern bought the extraordinary ordinary exhibits, repeated the show, and printed an exhibition catalog. The catalog contained among others contributions by Bazon Brock, Peter von Kornatzki, and Adelhart Zippelius. The 110 black-and-white photographs provide a specific snapshot of what unspectacular product normality meant in the mid-70s.
Newly edited by Frank Philippin and Florian Walzel, the facsimile The Ordinary Design presented by Slanted returns the work to a wider audience. More than just making a design classic available again, this renews the question: How much of design is owed to the ordinary? In a time that dedicates its cultural attention almost exclusively to novelty and exceptionalism the every day utility is the silent opponent of “design.”
Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design)
When?
Friday, April 21st, 2023
6 p.m.
Where?
Socialform
Rundeturmstraße 16
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
New Slanted Publishers Team Members
The Slanted Publishers team extends a warm welcome to our new team members. We are pleased to introduce Helene Hohmann (Offenbach University of Art and Design) and Josephine Schröder (Bauhaus University Weimar) as our new interns! Over the next few months, they will be working on exciting book projects and contributing to Slanted Magazine as a part of our team.
Helene Hohmann (left)
Assistance Graphic Design & Editing
Helene is studying Graphic Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and joined the Slanted team for her six-month internship in March 2023. She loves everything to do with books, editorial design, typography and knitting fun things. She is now fully involved with Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0 & Slanted Magazine #42—Books.
Josephine Schröder (right)
Assistance Graphic Design & Editing
Josephine is studying Media Culture at Bauhaus University Weimar, where she also completed her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication last summer. She joined the team for a six-month internship in March 2023 and is a fan of books of all kinds, typography, graphic design, especially editorial design, photography, and drinking a lot of coffee. At the moment she is mainly busy with current book projects.
Glad to have you here 🙂
Best Book Design from all over the World 2023
The competition Best Book Design from all over the World 2023 is an attempt to compare the technical and aesthetic level as well as the appropriate and artistic design of books beyond national borders.
In 2023 the jury awards the publication Susi + Ueli Berger. Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum 1968–2008 from Switzerland with the GOLDENE LETTER, the highest mention. The book, published by Scheidegger & Spiess (Zurich), was designed by Dan Solbach, Fabian Harb, and Maria Peskina.
In addition to the highest award, the GOLDENE LETTER, another 13 books from Denmark, Germany, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, and South Korea were awarded. The awards are non-monetary and are intended to stimulate greater international dialogue in the book design scene. The institutions taking part have honored books in national design competitions. Only titles are accepted that have already been awarded prize in their home country or have been recommended by a body of experts.
Five jurors from five different countries—Aslak Gurholt, Billy Kiosoglou, Siri Lee Lindskrog, Maša Poljanec, and Coline Sunier—came together in the German National Library in Leipzig from February 23rd until 25th to examine and evaluate books from 30 different countries. “I think we’ve been through 600 books. It’s quite exhausting, but it’s quite an experience. It also changes the way you approach your own work.”, says juror Billy Kiosoglou about the jury’s work.
Juror Siri Lee Lindskrog adds: “Some of the books we noticed because they had a new approach to what a book can be or how the content of the book may interact with other formats, like digital formats for example. Other books were noticed because they had a very important statement or some content, we could see was very valuable to be published and spread into the world. Others were noticed simply for their formal quality.”
This year one can get an acoustic impression of the jury session in a special episode of their podcast.
During Leipzig Book Fair 2023 the publication Best Book Design from all over the World 2023, designed by Christian Lange (COCCU), will be released. This year’s 14 awardees will be honored on Friday April 28, 2023 at 4pm at the Stiftung Buchkunst booth at the book fair (Leipzig Bookfair, Hall 2 booth G600/F601). Everybody interested is welcome. Not only the 14 awarded publications and the shortlist of the international competition, but all the other submissions (around 600 books from 30 countries) will be on display at Stiftung Buchkunst’s booth.
Here you can see the list of all winners
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0
Get ready, there is a second Call for Submissions: Submit your work for our Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0.
Since Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type sold out in a very short time and tons of people continue asking if we have a few issues left, we decided to reprint the publication—roughly the same, but different. Meaning all pages will be black and white and we will add some additional work. With this call, we would like to encourage all those who missed the first call to participate in the upcoming second edition by sending in their work now!
Experimental Type deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. The issue presents projects incorporating the accident into the design process, works based on mistakes and inaccuracy, fonts that derive from a concept or a system—in the end work that experiments or goes unconventional ways in design. The publication showcases cutting edge approaches as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to ai-generated typefaces or variable fonts.
Graphic designers, illustrators, artists—you’re very welcome to submit your artwork with a statement/quote that explains your work. Submissions can be uploaded until May 6th, 2023.
After the call for submissions has closed we will curate and review all contributions and get in touch with you afterwards, if your work has been selected. The magazine will be published in early autumn 2023.
AUSGEZEICHNET!
The exhibition AUSGEZEICHNET! presents a retrospective of the prizes awarded by the Werkbund Label since 2006 for extraordinary and remarkable ideas, concepts, projects, initiatives, actions, and companies.
How can the future be made visible and what makes a future worth living? Since 2006, the Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg has been awarding the Werkbund Label every two years for exceptional projects, initiatives, and companies that demonstrate outstanding innovative, forward-looking or creative quality, serve as social or political role models, use environmentally friendly technologies, and energies or promote developments in civil society. The Werkbund Label focuses public attention on topics that make a relevant contribution to shaping the future and tackling ecological and social issues.
The exhibition presents a surprising and colorful bouquet of award-winning projects, ideas, companies and initiatives from 2006 to 2022, from Karlsruhe to the world. Founded in 1907, it is still an important source of inspiration when it comes to future issues in architecture, urban planning, design, ecology, education, and training.
AUSGEZEICHNET! Werkbund Label 2006–2022
When?
Vernissage: Thursday, April 13th, 2023, 6 p.m.
Exhibition: April 13th – May 14th, 2023, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where?
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe am Rondellplatz
Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 17
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
Opening by District President Sylvia M. Felder and Alexander Grünenwald, 1st Chairman of Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg, there will be an opportunity for guided tours and discussions.
Registration by mail here