100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH

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The winners of the competition 100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH for the best posters from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) in 2020 have been announced after the jury meeting on March 4th and 5th, 2021.

The competition attracted 600 entries with a total of 1,973 posters (868 individual posters, 321 series).

The jury, chaired by Markus Weisbeck, Studio Markus Weisbeck (Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Germany) with Xavier Erni, NeoNeo (Geneva-Carouge, Switzerland), Andrea Gassner, Atelier Andrea Gassner (Feldkirch, Austria), Na Kim (Seoul, Republic of Korea / Berlin, Germany), and Franziska Morlok, Rimini Berlin (Berlin, Germany) first made an online pre-selection as usual.

At the final jury meeting, which due to pandemic restrictions was not held as a face-to-face event as planned, but in the form of an online video meeting, there were 743 posters (298 individual posters and 127 series) from 275 participants.

The Results
By country, the winning 100 posters and poster series were divided into 43 × Germany, 50 × Switzerland, and 7 × Austria—of which were 75 × category A (commissioned work), 8 × B (own commissions), and 17 × C (student project commissions*). * This information is preliminary, as the category assignment may be adjusted during further evaluation of the results.

The opening exhibition with presentation of all posters and presentation of the yearbook, which will again be published by Dortmund based Verlag Kettler, will open in mid-June 2021 in the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen (Art Library) and will then be on display at several venues in the three participating countries as well as in Korea.

The visual identity for the new competition is designed by Vienna based Studio for Visual Communication Bueronardin.

100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH

Competiton
Participants: 600 people from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Submitted Posters: 1,973 posters (868 individual posters, 321 series)
Jury: Markus Weisbeck, Studio Markus Weisbeck , Xavier Erni, NeoNeo, Andrea Gassner, Atelier Andrea Gassner, Na Kim , and Franziska Morlok, Rimini Berlin 
Winners: 43 from Germany, 50 from Switzerland, and 7 from Austria in the categories A–commissioned work (75 winners), B–own commissions (8 winners), and C–student project commissions (17 winners) 

Opening Exhibiton
When? Mid-June, 2021
Where? Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin

Get general information about the competition and a comprehensive online archive of all posters from 2001 onwards on the 100 beste Plakate website, as well as on Instagram, and facebook.

Poster Credits

1. 
Designer: Niklas Apfel, D Berlin, poster: Imageplakatserie UFA Fabrik Berlin, Serie von drei Plakaten, for: Internationales Kultur Centrum ufaFabrik e. V., size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ FLYERALARM GmbH, category: A

2.
Designer: Neue Gestaltung, Nina Odzinieks, Annika Soja, Pit Stenkhoff, D Berlin, poster: Drei Schwestern, for: Staatstheater Mainz, size: A0, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ Viaprinto, CEWE Stiftung, category: A

3.
Designer: Scarlett Bang, CH Zürich, poster: Big Zis, client: Netzwerk Neubad, format: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Multi Reflex AG, category: A

4.
Designer: Niklaus Troxler, CH Willisau, poster: Just tape it!, for: A-Z Presents, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A

5.
Designer: Nordland, Peter Gärtl, CH Steffisburg/Thun, poster: Adelboden Ghost Edition, for: Ski-Weltcup Adelboden AG: Christian Haueter, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Citywerbung Print Thun, category: A

6. & 7.
Designer: Hammer, David Schatz, Sereina Rothenberger, Martin Parr (Fotografie), Tomiris Shyngyssova (Illustration), CH Zürich, poster: Gessnerallee, series of two posters, for: Gessnerallee, size: each F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A

8.
Designer: Mike Dziambor, D Hamburg, poster: Shrooms, for: Kunstschule Wandsbek, Projektauftrag an der Kunstschule Wandsbek, supervision: Julia Meyran, Stefan Kerp, Johanna Meixner, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Daisy’s REPRO, category: C

9.
Designer: Stahl R, Tobias Röttger, Timm Häneke, Susanne Stahl, D Berlin, poster: Imagine the City, Series of three posters: Public Face / Backdrop / Bee Chapel,  for: IMAGINE THE CITY, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/ Gebr. Klingenberg & Rompel in Hamburg GmbH, category: A

10.
Designer: Iza Hren, CH Zürich, poster: Énergie animale, for: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Uldry AG, category: A

11.
Designer: Herendi Artemisio, Milana Herendi, Tiziana Artemisio, Simon Meier, CH Zürich, poster: MyCollection: Bruno Monguzzi, for: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Hagmann Siebdruck GmbH, category: A

12.
Designer: Fons Hickmann M23, Fons Hickmann, Raúl Kokott, Paul Theisen, D Berlin, poster: RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, series of four posters, for: Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre gGmbH, size: each A0, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck/, category: A

13.
Designer: Henning Wagenbreth, D Berlin, poster: Culture at Vlisco, series of five posters, Learn to Laugh / Enjoy Diversity / Seek Business Opportunities / Love Africa / Take Risks, for: Vlisco, size: je CLP, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck/ Lézard Graphique, category: A

14.
Designer: Balmer Hählen, Yvo Hählen (Art Direction, Grafik-Design), Priscilla Balmer (Art Direction), Julien Le Goff (Grafik-Design), CH Lausanne, poster: Daniela Edburg, Topographies of Transformation, for: Fabienne Levy, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Siebdruck mit gemischten neonorangen und blauen Metallicfarben/ Uldry AG, category: A

15.
Designer: Chris Gautschi Graphic & Editorial design, Chris Gautschi (Grafik-Design), Henry Leutwyler (Fotografie), CH Lausanne, poster: IM/ MOBILE, for: CHUV – Institut des humanités en médecine, size: F4, printing technique/printing house: Digitaldruck/ Uldry AG, category: A

16.
Designer: Barbara Galizia, D Leipzig, poster: It’s A Book, It’s A Buzz, It’s Time to Discuss, for: Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Projektauftrag an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, supervision: Prof. Markus Dreßen, size: A1, printing technique/printing house: Offsetdruck mit einer Sonderfarbe/ WIRmachenDRUCK, category: C

 

Shape of the Type – The Foundertype Poster Exhibition

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In June 2019, A Black Cover Design worked with Foundertype to curate “Shape of the Type –
The Foundertype Poster Exhibition” and “Tokyo TDC Selected Artworks 2018-2019 in Beijing”.
We have provided the exhibition key visual for the two exhibitions, including invitation, posters,
catalog, and decorations. Some of the advertising materials are “interspersed”, that is, the
“Shape of the Type” invitations is packed in the envelope of “Tokyo TDC Selected Artworks”.

COLOR

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During corona crisis a lot of artists can not work, must stay at home and have no salary. They have no perspectives. Somehow a lot of artists remember me on dying swans. After corona crisis hopefully artists are able to follow their professions and can do what they live for.

1) colour theory ; 2) peel

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1) Green, Orange and Purple are the secondary colours which are mixed with two of the primary colours. The designed type face with one of the primary colours shows the secondary colours when it mixes with the background colours.
2) Colours would be meaningless when it stands alone; they are important to our feelings when they coming with black and white.

Gute Karten

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Skat, Mau Mau or Doppelkopf — with this deck of cards you always have an ace up your sleeve. Through 32 finely printed cardboards (59×91mm), dull family evenings can be spiced up and new friends made. Sitting comfortably together, following rules and wisecracking. Lovely!

The design is inspired by a deck of cards designed in 1906 by Wiener Werkstätte-related artist Editha Moser.

Photo by Charlotte Hafke

205TF

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Launched in 2017, its catalog has more than 40 typefaces and includes experienced type designers as well as young ones whom 205TF support for their first typeface. 205TF aims to be a virtuous platform when digital typography is sometimes seen as a consumable whose cost must always be reduced.

In its catalog, there are only original and quality typefaces; body as display ones; extended families and variable fonts for discerning users. 205TF makes the choice of a demanding selection to be an alternative to broadcasting platforms where the user no longer knows what to choose.

Typefaces by 205TF

Garaje by Thomas Huot-Marchand takes its inspiration both from the alphabets of the Bauhaus school and the vernacular inscriptions of Spanish garage owners.

Clifton by Yoann Minet is a reinterpretation of the Athenian typeface that was distributed around 1896 by the British Type Foundry.

Thelo by Tassiana Nunez-Costa, a serif type designed for print and screen, in Micro, Text, and Display versions.

Injurial by Sandrine Nugue, a sharp and elegant typeface made to withstand the worst, while saying it with refinement and eloquence.

Andersen by Thierry Fétiveau was born out of the lack of typefaces adapted to children’s stories.

Heliuum by Damien Gautier is a playful typographic program which contains seven different character sets.

Molitor by Matthieu Cortat is a modernist yet joyous typeface, named after the eponymous and emblematic building in Paris.

Romain 20 by Alice Savoie is a contemporary revival of a typeface originally named “Romain Vingtième siècle.”

Dédale by Thomas Bouville is a type family inspired by inscriptions cut into the stone of the underground passages of the Paris Catacombs.

Salmanazar by Juliette Collin is a typeface which has its roots in nineteenth century French type design, and in particular, the specimen of Antique Warnery no.1.⠀

 

Doitforyou

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Poster to commemorate International Women’s Day. The different colors used in the posters symbolize the different identities of all of us. Under the motto of “Do it for you”, I wanted to convey a message to help people engage in any kind of movements for gender equality. Because it’s not for someone else, it’s for ourselves.

Doitforyou

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Poster to commemorate International Women’s Day. The different colors used in the posters symbolize the different identities of all of us. Under the motto of “Do it for you”, I wanted to convey a message to help people engage in any kind of movements for gender equality. Because it’s not for someone else, it’s for ourselves.

Nouruz-e Naft

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Norouz-e Naft combines Norouz, the celebration of the New Year in Iranian calender, with Rouz-e Naft – the Day of Oil, that refers to an important historic event: When Iran’s Prime Minister Mossadegh nationalised oil on the day before Norouz in 1951 and, in doing so, revoked access from the british company „Anglo Persian Oil-Company“.

Reminiscences of the playground

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As the first point of contact not only with peers but also with bright colours, the playground shapes our perception of colourfulness from an early age. This inspires us (consciously or subconsciously) forever.

The squeaky red climbing frames, the sand (which I liked to have crunching between my teeth), the giddy feeling of the slides and swings, the deep blue of the sky.

Spielplatz, I MISS YOU.

More

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This work was commissioned for the British musician Paul Weller and was released as a limited edition screen print. As a long time fan of Paul Weller’s music it was exciting to be able to visually respond to his song ‘More’ . The lyrics talk about ‘pushing up into the sky’ and I wanted to capture the feeling of expansion and floating away on an aspiration. Instead of having a figure in the illustration I used the letters of the word More make a face that is drifting away, framed by a pink sky and sunset, wanting more. The cautionary lyrics remind us that in floating away on our desires, eventually we need to come back down to reality again.

Anschlag Berlin

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Anschlag Berlin is a collection of contemporary posters curated by Sven Lindhorst-Emme and Fons Hickmann. The exhibition was conceived as a traveling exhibition and was presented in the following cities: Lucerne, Berlin, Beijing, Macau, and Shanghai. Each exhibition poster has a different look, printed by Iris-silksreen technic.

BLOOM

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What inspired me with the series was no matter what we face in life, we have the opportunity to shape it and bloom from our past. Hoping that what we have dreamed soon will be revealed to our naked eye.

Summer Workshops 2021

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With Summer Workshops 2021 the Visual Communication Institute / The Basel School of Design offers workshops for students, educators, and graphic designers. The workshops afford insight into topical themes in Visual Communication in a study program reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design. Practical exercises with a high level of professionalism form the core of the workshops focus. Reflection as well as contextual knowledge will be conveyed by way of input sessions, allowing participants’ work to be judged within a contemporary, future-oriented, context relevant to professional practice. The trinational Rhine river valley is a unique cultural environment with easy access to France and Germany, and to sites such as the Vitra Design Museum (G), the Isenheimer Alter (F) or Ronchamp (F). In Basel the Fondation Beyeler, Tinguely Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Schaulager, and the Museum of Contemporary Art are world renown. Besides its museums Basel offers a rich mixture of cultural events.

Every week of the four week long event is another workshop, meaning you can attend four different workshops: Poster Design, lead by Leander Eisenmann, Inquiry by Design lead by Michael Renner, Type Design lead by Philipp Stamm, Algorithmic Design / P5 live lead by Ted Davis and Gregory Vines.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshops will take place under the FHNW Covid-19 protection concept. It will be decided in April 2021 whether the workshop will take place physically on campus in Basel or online in a distant learning format. 

Summer Workshops 2021

When?
June 28th – July 23rd, 2021
Poster Design, Leander Eisenmann, June 28th – July 2nd
Inquiry by Design, Michael Renner, July 5th – 9th
Type Design, Philipp Stamm, July 12th – 16th
Algorithmic Design / P5 live, Ted Davis + Gregory Vines, July 19th – 23rd

Where?
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW
Campus der Künste
Freilager-Platz 1
4002 Basel
Switzerland

Application
Application deadline: May 31st, 2021
Application fee: CHF 40.–
Participation fee offline workshops: 1 week: CHF 900.–, 2 weeks: CHF 1,700.–, 3 weeks: CHF 2,400.–, 4 weeks: CHF 3,000.–
Participation fee online workshops: 1 week: CHF 700.– 2 weeks: CHF 1,300.– 3 weeks: CHF 1,800.– 4 weeks: CHF 2,200.–
Student’s discount: 20 %
Apply now

See the full program here