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Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23

Posted on 12. January 202312. January 2023 by eric_fritsch

At the end of the winter term 2022/23, the graduates of the Design and Architecture departments of the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf will present their projects during the Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23.

Around 200 young designers and architects specializing in Architecture, Interior Design and Civic Design as well as Communication Design, Exhibition Design, New Craft Object Design and Retail Design are looking forward to your visit.

You can take a look at the graduation projects here.

What good advice should you give young designers and architects to take home with them on their journey through life? Beyond the ubiquitous cultural pessimism, all potential wisdom can be found somewhere within the information garbage of our civilization. Semiotic fragments and constellations that can be combined and reassembled in many different ways. You can even find happiness. But where do you start? Where to look?

The inspiration for the Werkschau design is Marjory, the ‘all-knowing, all-seeing Trash Heap’ from the 80s children’s series The Fraggles. Marjory—a living compost heap with magical abilities and alternate genders—serves as an oracle to the Fraggles. There are also two rat-like sidekicks: Gunge and Philo, who act as representatives and interpreters of the wisdom of the Trash Heap. Occasionally they decorate Marjory with jewellery made from garbage. If the two rats say “The Trash Heap has spoken!,” questioning time for petitioners is over.

Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23

When?
January 27th, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
January 28th, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Where?
Hochschule Düsseldorf
Peter Behrens School of Arts
Building 6
Münsterstraße 156
40476 Düsseldorf

More information here
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Design: Lorena Beste, Mats Dübbers, Anna Gangluff, Lynn Ruberg, Joelle Schonhoff und Chiara Toteda / Code: Stefan Völker / Supervision: Prof. Holger Jacobs / Public Relations: Eric Fritsch und Stephanie Muscat-Bruhn

Lagois Photo Competition 2023

Posted on 11. January 202310. January 2023 by Tessa Breuer

Climate justice concerns us all. We all know that we cannot treat our planet carelessly. But how can we lead a socially and environmentally responsible life? Protect the environment and manage resources sustainably? Only by changing something together in order to enable sustainable living conditions for inhabitants of the Global South and future generations. Lagois Photo Competition 2023 is looking for outstanding photographic works on the subject of Sustainable Living.

The competition is worth € 5,000.–. They are looking for photo reports about people or groups who live climate justice. Small and big heroes, who are fearlessly committed to protecting the environment against global warming, taking responsibility, and driving social change.

Is the future green and the ecology blue? How can we save our Earth? Will artificial intelligence help us do that? We want to make the causes, consequences, and options for action for climate justice visible—be it the cultivation of regional food, the expansion of urban green spaces, or the production of sustainable products. Other topics include sustainable mobility, social justice, nature conservation, water, biodiversity, and upcycling.

Please note that only applicants residing in Germany can be awarded BUT the best photos of all applicants—no matter where they reside—will be presented in a traveling exhibition throughout Germany as well as in a book of photographs which will additionally be published on the subject.

The photo competition comprises two categories and addresses both professional photographers as well as youngsters aged 14 to 27 years. Closing date for entries is March 26th, 2023.

Furthermore, they award a promotion prize for a project that is not yet realized or completed. Closing date for the promotion prize is January 15th, 2023.

The best photos will be presented in a traveling exhibition throughout Germany, and a book of photographs will additionally be published on the subject.

The Regional Bishop for Munich and Upper Bavaria, Christian Kopp, is the patron of the competition. Cooperation partners are the Bavarian Protestant Youth (ejb), Mission One World, Oikocredit Germany, the environmental department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the diakonia Bavaria, fair trade ConSozial, and the printing house Pigture.

Lagois Photo Competition has been offered every second year since 2008 by Evangelischer Presseverband für Bayern e.V., the Bavarian Protestant media association. The prize was named after the Bavarian priest Martin Lagois (1912–1997) who shaped Protestant media communication due to his efforts in media work.

Lagois Photo Competition 2023

Entry deadline: March 26th, 2023
Promotion prize deadline: January 15th, 2023
Conditions for participation can be found here

TDC69 Call for Entries

Posted on 10. January 202310. January 2023 by Tessa Breuer

The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, announces significant expansion in accepted work and a host of additional changes to its annual awards with the opening of TDC69 Annual Competition call for entries.

Previously divided into two competitions, one each for Communications Design and Typeface Design, the program is now a single competition under this year’s umbrella of TDC69, consisting of three disciplines: Type Design, Typography, and, for the first time, Lettering.

The new dedicated discipline for Lettering is for work where the letters were created or modified. This includes contemporary lettering, traditional calligraphy, sign painting, wordmarks and custom logos, digital or analog distortions, eccentric display typefaces, and more. This new discipline has its own dedicated jury, made up of some of the world’s leading lettering practitioners and experts.

The Type Design discipline is for entries showcasing the design of typefaces. New this year, it also allows for entries of any thematically applicable code or software, such as software for creating or generating type.

The third discipline, Typography, is the broadest one. It encompasses any design or creation that uses type, lettering, or written language as a significant element, and is an expansion of what was previously the TDC Communications Design discipline. Typography includes graphic design, UI/UX, environmental design or architecture with typographic elements, film, animation and motion design, social media campaigns, new media, and anything else where typography is used.

To be eligible, work must have been produced or published in the 2022 calendar year. This year’s awards competitions continues TDC’s commitment to expanding the level of diversity and representation in its juries. A full lust of this year’s juries by discipline can be found here.

TDC69 Call for Entries

Regular deadline: January 17th, 2023
Final deadline: March 3rd, 2023
Enter here!

The Faces Behind Typefaces

Posted on 9. January 202323. December 2022 by Alisa Kusti

Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites, in collaboration with Type Directors Club presents The Faces Behind Typefaces, a selection of insightful conversations about typographers who have made extraordinary contributions to the creative field—Paula Scher, Paul Rand, Gerard Unger, Ed Benguiat, Rubén Fontana, Emigre, and Adrian Frutiger.

Designed in the form of an editorial, The Faces Behind Typefaces coincides with the 75th anniversary of the The Type Directors Club, part of The One Club for Creativity.

Starting from humble beginnings with 20 members in New York, TDC serves a global audience of typographers, type designers and lettering artists around the world with dozens of engaging online events, the renowned Type Drives Culture annual conference, and the profession’s most prestigious awards competitions.

Take a look at the platform here.

The F*word

Posted on 6. January 202322. December 2022 by mareneyra

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” With their legendary 1989 poster, the activist group Guerrilla Girls drew attention in New York City to the fact that although women are a popular motif in art, very few female artists are exhibited in museums, galleries, and art institutions. For more than 30 years, the internationally known collective from the USA have been dedicating themselves to humorous, enlightening, and reproachful works that uncover sexism, racism, and discrimination as well as the abuse of power and rampant corruption in the art world. For the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G), the Guerrilla Girls are now developing a work that will take a critical look at the museum’s own collection. In the exhibition The F*word — Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design at the MK&G, the collective’s posters will form the starting point for a group show encompassing some 500 works dating from 1870 to the present day.

The F*word

Where?
MKG Hamburg
Steintorplatz
D-20099 Hamburg

When?
02/17—09/17/2023

Opening Hours:
Tue.–Sun., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thu. 10 a.m.–9 p.m.

14.–, reduced 8.– Euro
Free entrance each first Thursday of the month
Free entrance for people under 18 years

The Lexend Project

Posted on 5. January 20239. January 2023 by Tessa Breuer

WPP creative company Superunion, in collaboration with Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, typographers David Berlow and Santiago Orozco, and Google Fonts, has evolved Lexend, a legacy font system, originally developed by Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup and designer Thomas Jokin in 2019, to change how the world reads. Lexend fonts are created to reduce visual stress and improve reading performance, with particularly useful implications for those with dyslexia.

The Lexend Project is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup (Founder of Lexend), Dave Crossland (Google Fonts), Thomas Jockin (Type Designer), Linnea Lundquist (Type Designer), Santiago Orozco (Type Designer), David Berlow (Type Designer and Founder of Font Bureau), Héctor Gómez (Type Designer), Rosalie Wagner (Type Designer), Jeromy Lohmann (Head of Brand at CosmosDirekt) and Superunion.

By creating an open-access, variable typographic system through Google Fonts that can be easily accessed globally and on any digital device, the partnership is helping to make reading accessible and easy for everyone; reducing the stigma around dyslexia and improving opportunities for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. According to the European Dyslexia Association, between 9 and 12% of the global population are thought to have dyslexia, regardless of culture or language.

Led by Dr Bonnie Shaver-Troup, an educational therapist and the founder of The Lexend Project, and supported by Dave Crossland/Google Fonts, Lexend fonts were rendered for Google Fonts in 2018, combining font software with academic-based research into type design. It pulls the most important typographic factors in reading-proficiency into a variable font that improves readers’ “Words Correct” per Minute score, the measure of reading fluency that calculates the number of words read out without mistakes in a set time.

Lexend first launched with a Regular weight, but now has expanded through the collaborative partnership to offer multiple weights and make it a variable font, usable across a wider range of formats. The range of thickness in the design of the font and the hyper expansion allows readers to customise their reading experience to suit their needs. Since Lexend launched on the Google Fonts platform, the font has had over 2 billion detected webviews, where the font was rendered on a website, and has been downloaded more than 500,000 times through Google Fonts.

The evolved Lexend font was adopted by CosmosDirekt, Germany’s leading digital insurer, as part of its new identity brand development programme, created by the Superunion team.

The Lexend Project
Watch a film about the project here
Download the font here

Klingspor Type Archive

Posted on 4. January 202322. December 2022 by turbo type

Klingspor Type Archive is the new online platform of the Klingspor Museum, where the holdings of the former type foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach, Germany, are made digitally accessible.

The new catalog offers interested parties expanded access to the internationally sought-after archive as well as usability that is independent of prior and specialist knowledge. Filled with historical material is additionally contextualized via links, short articles, research projects, and the addition of contemporary design. The website was initiated and designed by the two HfG graduates Laura Brunner and Leonie Martin (together they are forming the design studio turbo type). Numerous opportunities are offered for unintentional browsing, but also for targeted searches. In keeping with the foundry’s work, the website’s interface is rounded off by a font family exclusively designed for the digital archive. The database set up especially for this project will be gradually filled in the coming year.

So for the visual experience just take a look at the Klingspor Type Archive every now and then—and at the analog archive in Offenbach anyway!

Slanted Winter Break 22/23

Posted on 22. December 20229. January 2023 by Clara Weinreich

From December 23rd we will be taking our annual winter break to recharge our batteries and tackle many new projects in the new year full of energy! From January 4th, 2023, we will be back in person for you. Please note that from now until January 4th, 2023, there will be no support from the Slanted Shop (subscriptions included) and shipping will take a little longer than usual. In the meantime, we will be happy to take your orders—and this is especially worthwhile, because we need more space in our warehouse and offer selected magazines and special editions starting at €5.– until 12/31/2022 (online only, as long as stock lasts). First come, first served 😉

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, media partners, supporters, cooperation partners, friends, editorial staff, and all contributors who make Slanted in all its facets possible. This year has been so incredible for us with all the wonderful book and magazine releases. Many of them have already won awards, and some have been reprinted or are out of stock. In addition, we moved the office into an old factory building at the docks in Karlsruhe.

A big thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

At the same time, we had to face many challenges: Exploding paper prices and production costs, lack of resources, incredible postage costs for worldwide shipping and more. We work every day to make our publications available worldwide and to keep prices acceptable to the reader. A task that is not always easy …

As we scroll through our social media channels, it makes us very happy to see how you, our readers and community, celebrate our work and become a part of it yourselves. That’s why we’ve collected some impressions of the past year here—these make us always smile!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Your Slanted Team

Photos: © Instagram + © Slanted Publishers

Science Notes

Posted on 21. December 202220. December 2022 by Tessa Breuer

Each issue of Science Notes explores one topic via journalistic formats, literary texts and artistic contributions. The design changes completely with every new topic.

When they started to make the women-issue they were caught in a trap: There where so many do’s and don’ts out there, that they had a hard time to envision what their approach to this largely contested topic could be. In the end, they found, that first and foremost they had an awful lot of questions: how distinct is sex? How big is the clitoris? Is there such thing as the female brain? And why are there so many female robots? They decided to make a magazine that asks questions—and one question in particular: What’s woman?

Given that the answer must remain open and that there seem to be not so many clear cut distinctions and mostly smooth and blurry transitions, art director Sandra Teschow asked the incredible artist Hélène Baum-Owoyele to contribute to the magazine. Hélène is an afropean illustrator and graphic designer. They thought that her signature watercolor illustrations are the perfect visual counterpoint for their questions about what’s woman.

Science Notes

Publisher: Science Notes
Art Direction: Sandra Teschow
Illustration: Hélène Baum-Owoyele
Editors: Thomas Susanka, Olaf Kramer
Release: September 2022
Format: 23 × 31 cm
Volume: 99 pages
Language: German
Printing: Offset printing, Paperback
Paper: Circle volume White, (FSC Recycled), Blue Angle certified
ISSN: 2568-1974
Price: € 6.–
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FURE Conference 2023

Posted on 20. December 202210. January 2023 by mareneyra

After a break of more than two years due to the Corona pandemic, FURE Conference 2023 looks forward to welcoming you back on March 17th, 2023.

There are more texts in this world than ever before. Mankind is writing and reading more than ever: books, reports, newspapers, blogs, tweets, and even WhatsApp messages. A logical conclusion therefore must be: Things can’t be all that bad in terms of reading ability—the constant warning about a decrease in reading competence is perhaps more the lament of a pack of cultural pessimists after all.

On the other hand, it is not only what we read that changes us, but also how we read. We still know too little about how the digital age is changing us and how we can shape the transition to the new technology.

What new roles can print take on in the age of digitization? What are the ideas and possibilities in digital reading? How do the two media influence each other, both positively and negatively? How is our reading behavior changing? How can reading hold its own against other technologies such as playing games, listening, or watching?

For the possible answers to all these questions, FURE was created as a platform for theory and practice to create space for statements, visions, and positions of designers, media professionals, and creative people.

FURE Conference 2023

When?
March 17th, 2023

Where?
MSD—Münster School of Design, FH Münster
Leonardo-Campus 6
48149 Münster
Germany

Get your ticket here

AI as Aesthetics Imperfection

Posted on 19. December 202212. December 2022 by Gianpaolo Tucci

Artificial Intelligence is taking over many digital experiences, optimizing and streamlining processes, tasks, and operations aiming for a self-learning mechanism (Machine Learning) able to be trained by input in form of data and analytics.

The age of co-creation has begun. In the context of art, and AI image generators, this technology opens up a new era in which humans and machines can smoothly collaborate in “Creating Moments.” With each input a visualization as an output will be delivered. Machine learning extensive training, still based on human inputs, to feed a community shared consciousness where all AI brains are feeding it, but as a brain being tailored to the individuals; Each to become an extension of the self.

This collection of artifacts is about experimental typography co-created with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning (a tool called mid-journey) giving a glimpse of the infinite possibilities for typographical experiments on individual letters words and compositions. The scope is to visualize a less technical and functional usage for typography.

To value his artistic expression found in the versatility of typography body shape, colors, materials, environment, light, mesh-up, and styles cross breeding, by associating in each chapter a different conceptual application that affected the shapes with a new metaphorical semantic. These are Aesthetic Imperfections.

Sans Sans

Posted on 16. December 202212. December 2022 by Tessa Breuer

MuirMcNeil Sans Sans is an economical, robust and versatile sans serif type family. Its design is imprinted with the DNA of a number of protean sans serif typefaces from the latter half of the twentieth century, elegant late modern styles that are often referred to as ‘neo-grotesques.’ In developing this typeface, every contour, stroke, curve, and counter form has been honed to its most natural shape in order to render each individual glyph in the simplest, smoothest possible form.

Sans Sans is the initial outcome of a project that MuirMcNeil has been developing intermittently over several years. The project’s primary objective was to distil the latin alphabet into an organic system of archetypal components, not as an end in itself, but for subsequent use as the subject of a series of experiments investigating various rudimentary functions of typographic form such as legibility, symmetry, emphasis, rhythm, and frequency.

A starting point rather than a final conclusion, it was developed as a live specimen—a typographic genotype with potential for analysis, dissection, deformation and reformation into new visual organisms.

It is intended as an alternative to those contemporary typefaces that extend into a myriad of styles and subfamilies. It has been conceived as an unequivocal, distinctive design, drawn in two styles, upright and italic, each in 13 matching weights.

Sans Sans

Foundry: MuirMcNeil
Weights: 13 weights and matching italics
File Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF & WOFF2
License: 1–5 users
Price: £ 260.–
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100 Beste Plakate 22

Posted on 15. December 202212. December 2022 by mareneyra

100 Best Posters 22 is going into the next round and we are very looking forward to it.

You can now take part and submit your work to the largest annual poster competition in the German-speaking world. Only the hundred best make it into the highly regarded traveling exhibition, starting in Berlin, the 100 best posters will be on display again from the middle of next year on an exhibition tour in the three countries, in Korea, as well as in other locations.

Until January 20th, 2023, you can register online and upload your work. After that, the online pre-selection will take place and at the end of February the jury will select the 100 best posters.

The 100 beste Plakate 22 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz competition is organized annually by 100 Beste Plakate e. V. and aims to publicize special achievements in poster design from the three countries in the form of a yearbook and several exhibitions.
Posters of all genres and printing techniques that were designed, printed, and published between January 1st and December 31st, 2022, can be submitted.

Designers (graphic designers, design studios, agencies, students), clients and printers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are eligible to submit entries. Participation is subject to a fee (from € 50.–, graded according to the number of posters); students and members of 100 Beste Plakate e. V. receive a 50% discount.

The appearance for the new competition including yearbook (to be published in June 2022 by Verlag Kettler) is designed by studio lindhorst-emme+hinrichs, D-Berlin, in ccoperation with Erkin Karamemet (Font), D-Berlin/Köln and Luis Seyffert (Animation), D-Lübeck.

General information on the competition and the comprehensive online archive of all posters from 2001 onwards can be found on the website.

100 beste Plakate 22 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz

Deadline: January 20th, 2022
Categories:
(A) Posters as advertising media for business, culture, and social affairs, commissioned works with posting in semi-public or public space.
(B) Posters as self-advertisement, as author graphics or as experiment.
(C) Posters by students, realized with school accompaniment.
Fee: Participation is subject to a fee (from € 50.–, graded according to the number of posters), students and members of 100 Beste Plakate e. V. receive a 50% discount.
Register here

Memberful Design

Posted on 14. December 202213. December 2022 by Tessa Breuer

Dutch design agency Momkai celebrates its 20th anniversary, and as a gift to the creative community in Europe and beyond, launches Memberful Design. This new publication shares insights to help build communities and design for belonging. First guests include Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa, global CTO of Greenpeace; Eddie Opara, Partner at Pentagram in New York; and Avery Trufelman of 99% Invisible and Articles of Interest.

Using podcasts, toolkits, and essays, Memberful Design taps into the experience of leading design practitioners. This is a show about design strategies that help initiatives create a lasting impact. Guests include entrepreneurs, design thinkers, and visionaries from across the spectrum. You can listen anywhere you get your podcasts.

Memberful Design is the evolution of Verwondering, the leading design podcast of the Netherlands. Now, Harald Dunnink and his team bring this award-winning series to the global stage in English. Every episode explores how to create more meaningful connections and grow active communities. From startups looking to grow their membership programs to NGOs sparking movements, Memberful Design has insights everyone can use.

Creator and host Harald Dunnink: “The project came out of a realization shared by many: We face increasingly complex challenges, from entrenched polarization to rising sea levels. None of us can solve these types of problems alone. It takes communities acting together to create solutions. The power of the collective requires the commitment of the individual.”

Strategy director Brenna Foster in Berlin: “It can be a challenge to break through the noise and inspire action. Where do you start? How do you connect people? These are the kinds of questions Memberful Design explores. To find answers, we’re talking to experts from across the creative spectrum.”

It is the evolution of a previous knowledge-sharing initiative by Momkai: the Dutch-language podcast Verwondering. After four successful seasons, the podcast nabbed an international European Design Award. In response, the show is transforming into an English-language podcast to help serve the larger creative community.

Memberful Design

Visit the website here.
Subscribe to the Podcast on your podcast platform of choice.

Slanted on the Docks

Posted on 13. December 202214. December 2022 by Clara Weinreich

Slanted on the docks—a few snapshots of our office opening party at the Rheinhafen in Karlsruhe. Thanks to everyone who came for all the great gifts—especially the life ring, which we hope we’ll never need, even though the Rhine is not far away 😉 Many thanks also to the local Hafenimbiss for the delicious food and Aqua Monaco for water and lemonades. It was nice to toast with former colleagues, long-time business partners and our friends and family. And we now also know the new location is great for events—we have lots of ideas …

Shape Society!

Posted on 12. December 202212. December 2022 by Julia Haecker

For all those who want to deal with or discuss issues of social sustainability. The conference Shape Society! Social Sustainability through Design focuses on hitherto neglected contexts of social sustainability and spans a wide range of topics such as anti-racism and decolonization, gender justice, and inclusion. All presentations are based on the question “Where is the German design industry today in processes of social sustainability?” A one-day conference will give an overview of design in these fields.

Shape Society!

When: Tuesday, December 13th, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Evangelische Akademie, Römerberg 9, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
Live stream: Participation is possible in presence and online/hybrid (please select when registering).
Language: German
Admission: free
Register here!

More information on the speakers and the program can be found here.

beyond tellerrand 2023

Posted on 12. December 20225. December 2022 by mareneyra

beyond tellerrand 2023, is the friendly event where design meets technology for over ten years, next year it is taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

The affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. With 500+ attendees and speakers include Emily Anhalt, Michelle Barker, Hugh Elliott, Cassie Evans, Scott Kellum, Tobias Kunisch, Gemma O’Brien, and more each in a renowned, familiar, and friendly atmosphere.

The name beyond tellerrand, expresses the aim, that everybody involved wants look a bit further, look beyond the edge. It also reflects the global perspective of the event. The expression is a mix of the English word “beyond” and the German phrase “Über den Tellerrand schauen,” which means “Think outside the box.” The exact translation for the sentence is “Take a look beyond the edge of the plate” … makes sense

beyond tellerrand 2023

When and Where?
April 17th and 18th, 2023, Düsseldorf
September 11th and 12th, 2023, Berlin

Get your Ticket here

Forward Magazine No 5

Posted on 9. December 202222. February 2023 by mareneyra

Forward Magazine No 5 — Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit. is now available in Slanted Shop. What is the state of design in Austria and what does Austrian design stand for in an international context? Vienna alone has always been a great source of inspiration—its importance in art history is indisputable, Viennese Art Nouveau and the legacy of Wiener Werkstätte are ever present. Given this rich heritage, the Forward Creatives want to shed a light on the creative process of current designers and artists in a broader context. Throughout this magazine, they take a deep dive into Austrian design and introduce you to Forward Network, their recently launched platform following the collaborative spirit of Wiener Werkstätte.

Slanted Shop is also offering two magazines of The Collectors Edition: Forward Magazine Issue No. 1, 2018, and Forward Magazine Issue No. 3 from the Austrian Forward Festival, 2020. Including interviews with Erik Spiekermann, Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Kessels, Oliviero Toscani, Jessica Walsh, Anton & Irene, Malika Favre, and many more.

Forward Magazine No 5

Publisher: Forward Creatives GmbH

Author: Forward Creatives

Design: Zwupp

Language: English

Volume: 108 pages

Format: 19 × 25 × 1.2 cm

Release: 09/2022

ISBN: 978-3-200-08573-2

Price: € 18.–

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Slanted Christmas Pre-Sale

Posted on 8. December 20226. December 2022 by Clara Weinreich

Our warehouse needs space for new publications in the upcoming year. That’s why you can buy selected Slanted magazines & special editions for only € 5.– from now until 12/31/2022 at Slanted Christmas Pre-Sale (online only, as long as stock lasts).

Grab your Christmas presents now and have fun shopping! You can find publications with up to 75% discount!

Munken Creator

Posted on 7. December 202212. December 2022 by JN_HG

With Raising Questions and the Munken Sans typeface, the Swedish paper manufacturer Arctic Paper invites you to playfully develop and experiment with typographic design using the Munken Creator. The typographic artworks inspire to think beyond the boundaries of how we communicate.

Questions are the answers of our time, because good questions are messages of change. Raising Questions invites to create and share visual messages using the newly developed Munken Creator web-based animation application under the hashtag #munkencreator.

In 2020, Munken developed the typeface Munken Sans. Now new in 2022, Munken launches the Munken Creator, which is giving creators unimagined possibilities to develop and experiment with the font to create visually animated messages. These visuals can then be used for classic print or web projects. Images and backgrounds can be combined with type editing in a nearly unlimited number of ways with the animations directed or remixed in real time.

You can save not only images, but even videos in WebM and MP4 formats and use them in a variety of ways—from book projects to projections on house walls, there are almost no limits. The possibility to combine it with augmented reality allows the digital world to accentuate the tactile analogue experience.

For the launch of the Munken Creator, a large-format magazine will be published featuring artworks created using the Web-based application.
With the augmented reality app Artivive, the digital level is combined with the magazine design to create new dimensions of perception.

Munken Creator
The “Munken Creator” is developed by Creative Technologist Patrick Hübner in collaboration with JUNO.

Munken Sans
Designer: Laurenz Brunner with Selina Bernet,
in dialog with Jonas Williamsson and Cornel Windlin (Lineto)
Type Foundry: Lineto
Weights: Regular, Medium, Bold

Explore the Munken Creator here!

Design und künstliche Intelligenz.

Posted on 6. December 20226. December 2022 by Tessa Breuer

The vast collection of processes and systems traded under the name of artificial intelligence promise an evolutionary leap in the world of work. Design is no exception. Artificial intelligence not only optimizes design, it also expands the capabilities of designers. It makes it possible to find design solutions that were previously inconceivable. It also helps create completely new personalized digital experiences for users.

In order to unlock the potential of these new intelligent processes and create new user-centric applications, creative people need guidance. To date, however, there is a lack of a systematic overview for creatives on how to understand and use artificial intelligence. There is no fundamental study of how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool for design, nor how it works as a design material.

This gap is now filled by the publication Design und künstliche Intelligenz. Theoretische und praktische Grundlagen der Gestaltung mit maschinell lernenden Systemen. Authors Marc Engenhart and Sebastian Löwe explain in an understandable and comprehensible way what hides behind the dazzling buzzword artificial intelligence. They provide insights into the broad range of applications and potentials of intelligent systems. For the first time in German-language academia, cross-disciplinary theoretical systems are developed for artificial intelligence as a design tool as well as a design material.

With this book, Engenhart and Löwe show that design must be rethought. Because with artificial intelligence, designers can not only work on a new evolutionary level. They are able to design in such a way that the final design solution actually originates at the moment of its use being adaptive to the users’ preferences. For this new notion of design, the book not only develops the principles of good design and shows first practical steps. It also uses well selected case studies to show how good design can be implemented with artificial intelligence.

The book ultimately lays the foundation for the design of the future. It will revolutionize our understanding of how design must be thought and practiced.

Erik Spiekermann, probably the best-known German graphic designer and typographer, said about the book: “We designers have a new colleague, called AI. This book doesn’t promise easy solutions, but it explains carefully, understandably and, above all, well designed, what we should expect from the new colleague and how we should deal with her. It’s about time for this book.”

Design und künstliche Intelligenz.

Publisher: Birkhäuser
Authors: Marc Engenhart, Sebastian Löwe
Release: 2022
Volume: 208
Format: 205 × 257 mm
Language: German
Illustrations: 53
ISBN: 9783035625547
Price: € 54.–
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Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022

Posted on 2. December 202228. November 2022 by Tessa Breuer

The award ceremony of Stiftung Buchkunst at Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt was also used to present the annual catalog of Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022 for the first time, which was designed and realized by the team of Pixelgarten from Frankfurt/Main.

The annual catalog Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022 of Stiftung Buchkunst (German foundation for book design) presents the 25 award-winning books of the year—five in five categories—as well as the three sponsorship prize projects in detailed form. Richly illustrated, it shows the range of the current competition and thus the diversity of the award-winning books and their editorial design. In addition to bibliographical details on publishing, graphic design, and book production, the catalog also contains the 2022 shortlist for both competitions. The current publication also contains background information on the jury, the annual procedures, the committees and the remunerative prizes, supplemented by a jury report.

Particularly helpful for lovers of high-quality book design is the extensive index of all trades—designers, typefaces, materials, production companies.

Which agency developed the graphic concept? Who printed what? In which edition? Which papers were used? What grammage was used? From which supplier?

Equipped with a Swiss brochure with a yellow linen fold and a cover with a fold-in flap, jury sheets with comments by the 2nd jury, held by a yellow rubber band, are enclosed with the book.

A must for all those interested in book design, a pleasure for all those who love beautiful books.

Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022

Publisher: Katharina Hesse, Stiftung Buchkunst
Concept, Design: Pixelgarten, Frankfurt am Main; Catrin Altenbrandt, Adrian Nießler, Lea Johanna Becker
Photography, Reproduction, Lithography: Pixelgarten; Catrin Altenbrandt, Adrian Nießler
Editorial Team: Katharina Hesse, Carolin Blöink, Natalia Klaus, Pauline Werner ⁄ Stiftung Buchkunst
Texts Jury Statements: Elmar Lixenfeld
Translation: Iain Reynolds, Translation & Copy Editing
Fonts: Synt designed by Kaj Lehmann (published by Dinamo), Sporting Grotesque (VTF—Velvetyne Type Foundry)
Printer: Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich GmbH
Bookbinding: Josef Spinner Großbuchbinderei GmbH
Paper: Paper supplied by IGEPA group:
Salzer Eos, naturweiß, holzfrei, 70 g/m², 1.3 Vol.
Salzer Touch, white, holzfrei, 120 g/m², 1.2 Vol.
PERGRAPHICA(R), stormy grey, 120 g/m²
PERGRAPHICA(R), stormy grey, 250 g/m²
ISBN: 978-3-9822108-1-0
Price: € 20.–

Typeface of the Month: Nuances

Posted on 1. December 202228. November 2022 by Tessa Breuer

This Typeface of the Month: Nuances Serif is a very rich Serif family, with a highly expressive and resolutely modern design. Born from personal research on typographic design and aesthetic detail, Nuances is a sharp serif font family with strong contrast and generous curves. With a particular attention to the design of each glyph, this font family is meant to be used in large sizes. This typeface is to be experienced, shown, read and seen through its elegant shapes, and its confident design.

Nuances Serif can also be appreciated for its playfulness due to its glyph diversity and large character set. Ranging from Condensed Thin to Extended Black, this font family is available in 3 Widths and 8 Weights with matching Italics. The wide range of its styles (48) offers infinite possibilities for text layouts combining width, weights, contrasts and styles to create original and sophisticated graphic compositions. A proper adaptative typeface family, it would be as adequate to a luxury brand as to a poster for movies, or even a packaging for grocery stores’ items.

The technical and aesthetic constraints brought by the variable aspect of the font played a capital importance in the drawing. The curves and contrasts keep a constant unity throughout the width design space and become more and more generous as the font goes blacker.

The thinner the design is, the more prominent the serifs are, and the blacker it is, the less present they are, allowing a tighter space. The typeface offers then a very different visual experience depending on the style used. From sharp and precise when used in Thin to a much richer and denser appearance when getting darker when used in Black. The drawing of the Italic styles was the perfect opportunity to join the main characteristics of the roman design with a strong velocity feeling (slant angle) that would bring a powerful contrast in graphic creations.

Typeface of the Month: Nuances

Foundry: Blaze Type
Designer: Ethan Nakache
Styles: Serif, Display, Condensed, Normal, Extended, Upright, Italic
Weights: 48 (3 Widths and 8 Weights with matching Italics)
File Formats: .OTF .WOFF .WOFF2 .TTF (Variable)
Prices: Single Styles: € 30.–
Family Packages: € 400.–
Full Family (All Styles + Variable): € 1,100.–
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