LL Heymland

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

LL Heymland expands on an archive discovery attributed to Solomon Telingater (1903–1969), a legendary Soviet graphic artist who, with Aleksandr Rodchenko, Sergey Eisenstein, El Lissitzky, and others, initiated the constructivist October Group. The undated, unsigned, single-page calligraphic study found in his estate refers to Rudolf Koch’s exceptional Koch Antiqua (ca. 1922) and most likely originated in the early 1960s. In 2018, it caught the attention of Yevgeniy Anfalov, who eventually adapted the minimal character set into a full titling font for both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

Koch Antiqua was a typical, if rather quirky decorative typeface family of the early 1920s, heavily promoted by the Klingspor foundry even throughout the 1930s. In the USSR, the upper case Latin alphabet of the titling weight made a surprise appearance in a 1960 calligraphy book edited by Estonian designer Villu Toots. The layout of the study found in Telingater’s estate is identical with the visual in the book, but the lettershapes appear somewhat simplified, geometrically more pronounced, and less mannered. While some specialists question Telingater’s authorship, the piece aligns with other typographic work from the last phase of his career: After the dire years of Stalinism, the comparably liberal climate of the Khrushchev Thaw allowed Telingater to release acclaimed printing types such as Titulnaya (1955–62) and Akzidentnaya (1959), win a Silver Medal at the International Book Fair in Leipzig (1959), and design the first issue of Sovetish Heymland (סאָוועטיש היימלאַנד), a Yiddish-language literary magazine published by poet Aron Vergelis in Moscow (1961).

Although clearly fascinated by the personal hand-lettering style of the source, Yevgeniy Anfalov chose a distinctly digital approach to achieve a formal reappraisal. He stripped the drawings of any details that he perceived as superfluous, and he systematically unified the shapes, before re-considering each letter under optical criteria to avoid an all too mechanical feel. He designed a large number of entirely new glyphs in order to create a typeface suited for contemporary design projects. For LL Heymland’s first public appearance in TATE ETC. magazine (Summer 2020, designed by Studio Ard), Yevgeniy also drew a whole set of custom ligatures which have since been added to the font.

From the start, LL Heymland is published containing full character sets for both Latin and Cyrillic, a first for Lineto. Some of these shapes are rooted in a Cyrillic adaptation of Koch Antiqua found in a Russian manual book on type design from 1970, as well as in a few other sources from that time. Both the Latin and Cyrillic versions result from a process similar to Chinese whispers, connecting the German 1920s via the Soviet 1960s and 70s with the present day, making LL Heymland a playful exercise in post-modernism. It provides a contemporary option for anyone interested in the multi-faceted legacy of Roman capitals.

About the Designer
Born in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1986, Yevgeniy Anfalov moved to Germany in 2003. He studied Visual Communication at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and he launched his own design practice in 2010, two years before graduation. LL Heymland is Yevgeniy’s first typeface on Lineto. He is currently completing a redraw of Stephan Müller’s LL Chernobyl (1998), to which he added a Cyrillic counterpart. 

LL Heymland

Type Foundry: Lineto
Designer: Yevgeniy Anfalov
Font Engineering and Mastering: Alphabet, Berlin
Release: September 2020
Weight: Character sets for Latin and Cyrillic in Regular
Test Version: Yes, login for Lineto Trialfonts
Price: CHF 120.– (≈ € 110.–)
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Marginalia

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The publication Marginalia draws our attention to the overlooked elements that coexist in carefully designed books. Removing the text and images from a selection of art books designed by Anja Lutz in close collaboration with the individual artists reveals the nondescript details: the margins, the edges, the backgrounds, the spaces between the lines …

Each book is unique in its choice of format, material, layout, composition, and rhythm. The selected pages underwent a process of transformation in which Lutz dissected them with surgical precision, layer by layer, removing their vital parts, and revealing their skeletons—the actual support of the content. The results are filigree grids, fragments of images, and traces of the layout that form intricately layered compositions of voids, exposing the hidden relationships between the pages.

Marginalia is an investigation into the anatomy of books—the physical object, its materiality, and inner structure. It is an attempt at mediating the emptiness. The quiet and yet eloquent remaining spaces seem to have their own language—that of an abstract visual poetry of books.

Marginalia is a personal interpretation of the books designed by Anja Lutz with and for the following artists: Kader Attia, Sonia Boyce, Angela Bulloch, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Christine Hill, Hannah Höch, Hella Jongerius, Loriot, J. Mayer H., Laercio Redondo, Julian Rosefeldt, Lawrence Weiner amongst many more.

Marginalia

Author: Anja Lutz
Designer: Anja Lutz // Art Books
Format: 24.5 × 33 cm
Volume: 112 pages
ISBN: 978-3-941644-00-7
Price: € 28.–
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Walkshow

Posted on by Theo Steiner

This year’s Werkschau of graduates in Communication Design at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany, is entitled Walkshow and will still take place until the 4th of March.

Since it was not possible to hold their exhibition within a closed venue, due to the corona crisis, the current Werkschau is being presented in a completely new format. Several institutions and businesses have provided the graduates with their shop windows for presentation. The 26 projects of the graduates will be showcased in lit windows. This new concept has turned the exhibition into a city tour and with its many stations invites the audience to take a stroll through the city itself. The exhibition is thus aptly named Walkshow.

The different projects are visible in public spaces throughout the day. The full effect of the exhibition however is most prominent in the evenings when the monitors and orange lights illuminate the Walkshow windows. The exhibition comprises a big range of concepts: from an elaborate design book on exceptional female athletes, a projection mapping project on a model of the facade of the State Theater, a self-help platform for people with rare medical conditions, up to a filmic installation on the topic of intuition or to the creation of an upcycling start-up for furniture.

Albeit group shows are not possible under the current circumstances, the Walkshow offers the graduates a platform to present their diverse and timely concepts and designs. And a wider audience is being offered the chance to get to inform themselves on the achievements of the young creative scene of Wiesbaden.

An extraordinary answer to extraordinary circumstances.

Walkshow

What?
26 projects, 14 locations, 29 graduates

When?
From February 18th to March 4th, 2021

Where? 
At 14 locations in the city of Wiesbaden
Find a map of the locations here

ZUM LICHT

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

In 2018, Prof. Felix Müller and the Berlin-based light artist Nils-R. Schultze won the Light-Art-Competition BTHVN 2020 in honor of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, with their light installation series ZUM LICHT.

The task was, to tie in with the musical work of Beethoven and to establish a connection to his birthplace Bonn. A transformation, though not to the extent that the city has changed since Beethoven’s work, is the goal. The urban spaces are to be experienced in a new way, and new and different (light) images are to be created in the minds of the visitors, which will remain in their memories. The short days and long nights in Beethoven’s month of birth—December—form the stage for our nightly illumination of the city. The pictures from Bonn go out into the world and at the same time should be shown, that Beethoven’s musical work is present in the world and still gives impulses. The illuminations follow the basic idea of the lighting project, to unite a wide range of different appearing installations into one overall picture in the urban space of Bonn.

The ten installations are distributed like a gallery course in the city center and are never more than four minutes’ walk apart from each other. So the audience walks through the city, as the young Beethoven could have done 230 years ago.

The artists offer installations with a long-distance effect, installations that relate to specific urban spaces, installations that can be experienced by the senses, experimental objects, and independent light sculptures.

Based on the artists more than eight years of experience with light objects in the urban space of Berlin in the winter months, they made the decision, to propose a mix of conventional light or conventional light with simple controls and only a few projections. The light objects should be placed in the urban space, that they are well spread in the city center and generate a wide variety of images. The light installations should be within walking distance. The audience is invited to walk from installation to installation. In December 2019, the Bonn city center was filled with ten large light installations. A catalog was be published in 2020.

ZUM LICHT

Artists: Nils-R. Schultze & Felix Müller
Prize Offerer: Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH
Jury: Christian Lorenz (Artist Director Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH), Rein Wolfs (Intendant Bundeskunsthalle Bonn), Stephan Berg (Intendant Kunstmuseum Bonn), Christina Vegh (Kestnergesellschaft Hannover), John Jaspers (Director Lichtkunstzentrum Unna), Bastiaan Schoof (Artistic and technical producer Amsterdam Light Festival)
Awards: “Gold Winner” Muse Design Award 2020 NewYork, Lighting Design Award 2020 London (nomination), German Design Award, “Special Mention” for Light Installations for the Beethoven-Year 2020 in the category Excellent Architecture—Lighting Design

Zweitakt

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The publication Zweitakt is now available at Slanted Shop.

Thirty years after the German reunification, the name Simson is immediately associated with the legendary two-wheelers which today have acquired an iconic status even in the West of Germany. The cult surrounding the many different versions of the Simson moped, produced at the Suhl factory, appears to grow steadily. This product of the GDR attracts increasing fascination the more time goes by since the eclipse of the regime.

Simson clubs continue to mushroom everywhere in the East and West of the country. Adjusting screws, painting, polishing, riding, partying, and enjoying the collective spirit—these are what the Simson community are all about. The Simson moped unites people of all social classes as well as the young and old alike.

The hype around the moped is not based on nostalgia for everything retro from the former East–a phenomenon called “Ostalgia.” Shortly after the reunification, the vehicle already enjoyed a great degree of popularity among people in western Germany almost unrivalled by any other eastern product. With its distinctive look, the moped rapidly became a design icon promising a lifestyle of youthful liberty and metropolitan flair in countless cinema and TV films.

Maren Katerbau’s book is a photographic tribute to the moped, affectionally known as the Simme. She has visited Simson enthusiasts everywhere from Munich to Stralsund and has made portraits of them while working on their mopeds, riding them, and exchanging know-how. The result is a truly exceptional volume, a loving homage not only to the Simme, but also to its faithful custodians.

Zweitakt

Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Editor: Maren Katerbau
Photographer: Maren Katerbau
Volume: 204 pages
Format: 17 × 22.5 cm
Language: German
Bookbinding: Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-86206-853-1
Price: € 38.–
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CoFo Cinema 1909

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The typeface CoFo Cinema 1909, an old-fashioned elegance and reinterpreted classic, was specially designed for the identity of the Khudozhestvenny Cinema, one of Moscow’s historical landmark attractions.

The restoration of the Khudozhestvenny Cinema—one of the main symbols of the capital of Russia with more than a century of history—has been completed in Moscow. Using the original drawings of Fyodor Schechtel and photographs that have been preserved in the archives, the restorers managed to recreate the look as close as possible to the historical one. Along with that a new typeface was developed for the logo and the identity of the venue by Contrast Foundry. The studio was commissioned for the project by Anna Kulachek—art director of the Strelka Institute, involved in the reconstruction of the Khudozhestvenny Cinema.

The resulting CoFo Cinema 1909 echoes aesthetics of the elusive Soviet art deco and is inspired by the sign at the Komsomolskaya station of the Sokolnicheskaya line of Moscow subway. The typeface combines reinterpreted classicity and old-fashioned elegance.

Liza Rasskazova, designer behind CoFo Cinema 1909: “I like building cultural bridges and rethinking the historical heritage in my work. And the development of the CoFo Cinema 1909 typeface is exactly the case when it turned out to be absolutely appropriate. This typeface originated as a personal project, a study of art deco—a style that never managed to become big in Soviet art. But in the end, it found its place in the newly renovated Khudozhestvenny Cinema, which was restored to its early-century appearance.”

CoFo Cinema 1909

Client: Khudozhestvenny Cinema
Design: Liza Rasskazova, Contrast Foundry
Identity: Anna Kulachëk, Strelka Institute
Release: 2020

Cartographies

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The publication Cartographies originated from a series of photos with the same name by Italian photographer Louis De Belle that portrays details of the clothes of passers-by glimpsed along the streets of Manhattan. Folds, stains, or little traces of clothing thus constitute impressions of everyday life, potential cartographies of everyoneʼs journeys.

The book, devised in a newspaper format, is made up of twenty unstitched sheets held together with an elastic band, alternating original photographs with large, full-page details. The central spread features an index of the images organized by time of day. The subtitle New York, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in fact references the time span in which the images were shot, underlining the repetitiveness of everyday actions.

The photographic sequence is accompanied by a text written by Francesco Pacifico within a New York setting, laid out in text fragments alternating with the images.

Cartographies

Designer: Claire Huss
Authors: Louis De Belle, Francesco Pacifico
Publisher: Humboldt Books
Release: January 2021
Volume: 40 Pages
Format: 32 × 23 cm
Language: English
Bookbinding: Rubber band
ISBN: 9788899385835
Price: € 25.–
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Cartographies was one of the eight successfully financed projects from the Slanted × Kickstarter Mentoring & Publishing Program. 

typo/graphic posters

Posted on by André Felipe

typo/graphic posters focuses exclusively on typographical and graphical posters, those that challenge type, colors, and shapes to express a message. Each poster is reviewed to meet a standard in visual qualities and functional efforts.

Created in 2008, typo/graphic posters is developed and curated by André Felipe. Currently the site features 6,500+ posters in its archive, from 42 different countries, and created by 287 authors, that can be explored through an enhanced search with colors, tags, and keywords.

The goal of the new website is to offer a better usability and search capabilities, as well as saving favorite posters in collections, providing a better foundation for research and inspiration. In addition, some more new features will be added in 2021, such as the option to show animated posters.

typo/graphic posters is not a portfolio platform. All the posters go through a selection process to keep the profile of graphic and typographic posters, and also to maintain strong posters in content and form. If you are a poster designer, don’t hesitate and submit something for this great project. You can find all the conditions here.

typo/graphic posters

Design & Web Development: André Felipe
Design & Content: Flávia Menezes
Fonts: FF Meta & FF Meta Serif
Posters: all posters featured here are copyright of each author
Volume: 6,500+ posters, from 42 different countries, and by 287 authors

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Büro Destruct 4

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The new book Büro Destruct 4 not only presents the best of realized projects of the past twelve years, but also intermediate steps, discards, experiments, and inspiration of the Bern-based and internationally renowned design studio Büro Destruct. The Swiss, who see themselves and their studio as a kind of band, again present a skillfully composed album with this new book.

In contrast to the strict and somewhat restrained Swiss Style of the 1960s, Büro Destruct stands for design without the handbrake on. Apparently everything is possible. It can be humorous, loud, colorful, and zeitgeisty. At the same time, minimalism, precision, and craftsmanship are present in all their work.

The layout of the book presents various works in detail—in progress and finalized. It is always left open which of the variants shown was realized. Although the illustrations are only minimally explained, this principle allows for a particularly intensive look over the shoulder and reveals much about the working methods of Büro Destruct.

Their vector-heavy graphics have always conformed to “think global, act local.” Often against the grain of public conception: they were among the few to ignore the temporary, yet intense flirt of Swiss graphic design with fledgling neo-conservatism.

Over the past 27 years, Büro Destruct have successfully avoided being pinned down or getting too comfortable in a defined area. At the same time, of course, it is there: that special Destruct eerie feeling. An independent handwriting, for which many words could be found, but which even after more than two decades is best conveyed by looking at their work …

Büro Destruct 4

Concept & Design: Büro Destruct
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Preface: Jens Müller
Format: 24 × 28 cm (9.4 × 11 in)
Volume: 256 pages
Language: English, preface also in German and Japanese
Printing: Offset with spot color
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Thread-stitching
Printed in Germany, to be published in June 2021

Support the project now on Kickstarter!

Hometown Journal

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The Hometown Journal is about who we are—as creatives, as humans, as citizens. It’s where we come from and where we want to be going. Hometown investigates the work of passionate creators all over the globe, as a reflection of today’s constantly evolving zeitgeist. By digging deep into the complex dynamics of modern-day systems and their functions, they hope to reach the core of each topic, and collectively discover new possibilities for change.

Rooted in film, Hometown as a Duo has always been about telling stories. In the beginning, two high school friends, Alex and Eric, produced, shot, and directed their own documentaries, as well as music videos. Those films had one thing in common, they centered around the joys, habits, and suffering of human beings. When a global pandemic hit in 2020, making films was off the table for a while. What was left was the desire to tell stories. Annoyed by the fast-paced online platforms around them they wanted to find an outlet that was real. Not a file name, but an actual, crafted piece. Hometown Journal was born. 

They approached the magazine as a film project, looking at it from a wide range of perspectives. What can print do? How can we tell the story right? What is fun to look at and what creates excitement for the reader? The team of three started to look for their origin. What is Hometown? What does it mean to their creative collaborators? And what is still wrong in the world we call home? Artists were as carefully gathered as topics and the written word in itself. But also the choice of paper and different ways of printing were considered to tell a single story. Every element within the magazine is meant to tell the story of Hometown, creating a haptic guide throughout the chapters. This episode is not perfect, but it is crafted with love, it is a documentation of the process of creating in itself, and the outlet of three friends, wanting to bring joy into the world.

So what is Hometown? Hometown is for anyone who lives and breathes art, who embraces the medium, whether it be photography, illustration, music, or film. It’s meant to be a source of inspiration and to lift the curtain for those aspiring to know more. It’s for those who like to take a ten minute break from the day, and anybody who gets tired of the digital world from time to time. This one’s for you. Welcome to our Hometown.

If you like this issue, keep your eyes open: The second issue of Hometown will be out soon.

Hometown Journal

Publisher and Founder: Alex Schuchmann and Jan Eric Hühn
Art Director and Designer: Zoé Paula
Proofreading: Elliot Blunck
Print: Druckerei Rüss
Web Development: Monday Morning
Writers: Alex Schuchmann, Jan Eric Hühn, and Kyra Albano
Photographers: Ingmar Björn Nolting, Pat Martin, Maxime Cardol, Alex Schuchmann, and I AM HERE
Release: 10/10/2020
Cover illustration: Maria Jesus Contreras
Format: 21.3 × 28.4 cm
Volume: 156 Pages
Edition: 800 copies (Each Magazine is numbered)
Language: English
Font Used: TTNorms and Marta
Workmanship: offset printed on seven different types of paper, finished with a foil stamp, In the middle of the issue there’s an extravagant pull-out spread, and a transparent orange page introduces to the work of Maxime Cardol
Price: € 30.–
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Wzory Lublina

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The project Wzory Lublina by Polish graphic designer Tomasz Smutek is a collection of patterns inspired by details of the city of Lublin. The patterns were inspired by interesting architectural details, graffiti, characteristic arrangement of windows or columns, well-known buildings, floors, architecture of v-shaped supports, store signs, facade decorations, roof shapes, benches, and sculptures. The photographs feature such buildings as the Center for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin, the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Library, the defunct Kosmos cinema, the building of the Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin Castle, the Trinity Tower, the Academic Canteen of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Litewski Square, the archcathedral of Lublin, and the tenements of the Old Town.

The patterns were developed in the form of monochromatic graphics presented together with photographs of objects of our city, on the basis of which they were created. The project was carried out on a scholarship of the President of Lublin.

Wzory Lublina

Idea and Design: Tomasz Smutek
Have a look at all the location of the patterns on the map of Lublin and a presentation of the work in an Online exhibition

Picture 8: Center for the Meeting of Cultures, Theatre Square 1
Picture 9: UMCS Library, 11 Idziego Radziszewskiego St.
Picture 10: Meeting of Cultures Centre, 1 Theatre Square
Picture 11: Chatka Żaka, 16 Radziszewskiego St.
Picture 12: VIVO! Lublin, 2 Unii Lubelskiej Avenue
Picture 13: Pavilion, 6 Rymwida Street
Picture 14: St. Joseph Church, 7 Filaretów Sta.
Picture 15: Pavilion, 6 Rymwida Street

The Shipping Container

Posted on by NahuelGerth

The Shipping Container is an infographic website on the topic of containerization. The website layout is focused on creating a storytelling narrative based on a flowchart.

The process of containerization is one of the main driving forces of globalization and international trade as we know them today. With the introduction of a uniformed and normed system of container transportation a century old problem for shipping had been solved and the basic condition for large-scaled world trade was initiated.

When was the last time you were driving behind a truck carrying a container? And didn’t you wonder: What is inside all of these containers? Anything you use, buy, consume—even the device you are using now—was part of a worldwide logistical network of intermodal transport. Containers carry a range of products from food and fresh produce to electronic equipment and paper. They have become part of our lives and culture. They are used and repurposed in many ways.

If you are curious about how many containers are shipped per year, which problems suppliers had regarding delivery before the invention of containers, how international trade has changed since then, and everything else there is to know about containerization check out the project. It gives access to this exact information in an appealingly and interesting way.

The Shipping Container

Design: Nahuel Gerth
Fonts: Telegraf Ultralight, and Ultrabold from Pangram Pangram Foundry
Release: Prague, 2020

Hans Hillmann Archive

Posted on by Optik Books

On the occasion of Hans Hillmann’s (1925–2014) 95th birthday the idea of a Hans Hillmann Online Archive was born, which makes all of the graphic designers works accessible—from early drawings from his studies to his last works. Together with Marlies Rosa-Hillmann, the designer’s widow, new scans of objects from the estate were made.

Hans Hillmann was one of the most important German graphic designers of the postwar period. The high quality and novelty of his work made him famous beyond the borders of Germany. In 1954 Hans Hillmann began working with Walter Kirchner, a film enthusiast from Göttingen, who brought masterpieces of international film history and young art house cinema to Germany with his company Neue Filmkunst. By the mid-1970s more than 150 film posters for films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luis Buñuel, or Ingmar Bergman had been designed. Art director Willy Fleckhaus commissioned Hillmann as illustrator for iconic twen magazine, and, from 1980, for the magazine of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. For many years Hillmann drew the covers of the German editions of the books by John Updike, but also covers for Ernest Hemingway, or Jack London. In the mid-1970s, Hillmann’s idea of realizing a complete film in paper form became tangible. In a work lasting several years, he transferred the plot of a Dashiell Hammett thriller into hyper-realistic watercolor drawings. The book Flypaper was published in 1982 and set new standards in the field of graphic novels. As a teacher at the Kassel Design School, he also influenced countless students for nearly three decades.

The website makes some 800 film posters, book covers, and magazine illustrations from seven decades of graphic work accessible. Unpublished sketches and drafts are included as well as realized works. Graphic designers and researchers can use the new website to explore Hans Hillmann’s extensive oeuvre both intuitively and in a very targeted manner.

This project is the first to make the entire life’s work of an important graphic designer digitally accessible in such a comprehensive form. Dusseldorf-based design studio vista is responsible for the online database, which conceived and implemented the database solution under the direction of Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller. vista is an award-winning studio for communication design working in the field of corporate identity, editorial design, and digital solutions for clients from Germany and abroad. Jens Müller is the author of bestselling design books such as Logo Modernism, Lufthansa+Graphic Design, or The History of Graphic Design.

Alongside the online archive, the book Moving Pictures, published by OPTIK BOOKS, shows for the first time all of Hans Hillmann’s film posters in a large-format illustrated book. The bilingual book documents the process of finding ideas and the different design approaches in illustration, photography, and typography, using the posters as examples. The book is available at Slanted Shop.

Hans Hillmann Online Archive

Design: vista
Occasions: 95th birthday of Hans Hillmann (1925–2014)
Volume: 800 film posters, book covers, and magazine illustrations

Publication Moving Pictures

Publisher: OPTIK BOOKS
Design: vista
Language: English, German
Format: 19 × 28.5 cm
Volume: 208 pages
Printing: 4-color Offset
Bookbinding: Swiss brochure with open stitch binding
Paper: Munken Print
ISBN: 978-3-9822542-0-3
Price: € 38.–
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SAW

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

SAW (audio visual-station) is an Interactive lighting installation (neon), which reacts dynamically to the intensity of sound (noise), located in downtown Katowice, Poland, situated on one of the advertising poles. The installation is a kind of membrane that resonates with the environment. 

The SAW neon sign fades in response to noise. The arresting and stark nature of this installation encourages silence while simultaneously provoking increased consciousness and awareness of global threats. It deals with topics such as COVID-19, environmental pollution (noise and air), social isolation. The installation is partly made of recycled materials.

SAW stands for S–stacja [PL] (station), A—audio [PL] (audio), and W—wizualna [PL] (visual). Also for S—silence, and AW—awareness.

About the designer
Marta Gawin (born in 1985, Poland) is a multidisciplinary graphic designer specialized in visual identity, communication, poster, exhibition, sign systems, book, and editorial design. Since her MA in Graphic Design (Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice) in 2011, she has been working as a freelancer for cultural institutions and commercial organizations. Her design approach is conceptual, logical and content-driven. She treats graphic design as a field of visual research and formal experiments.

SAW
Concept & Design: Marta Gawin
Production Neon Signs: Raz Dwa
Photos: Krzysztof Skóra and Paweł Krzywdziński
In Cooperation with the City of Katowice

The 41st Annual of the Type Directors Club

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The publication The 41st Annual of the Type Directors Club is now available at Slanted Shop.

This beautiful 384-page book, designed by Anagrama in Mexico, features over 500 full-color images of international graphic design and type design in a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logos, stationery, annual reports, video, web graphics, and posters.

The Type Directors Club of New York reinvents itself. The TDC book as a classic remains! Excellent typography, nothing else.

Design competitions are now a dime a dozen, but one shines as a beacon in the world of typography: that of the Type Directors Club of New York. Founded in 1946 as an informal lunch meeting of typo-savvy agency creatives, the TDC focuses on judging typographic quality. A TDC Award accelerates graphic design careers. The 41st Annual of the Type Directors Club showcases the latest winning work from book design to packaging and posters to exhibition concepts, interactive applications, and corporate design.

It is a trend seismograph, inspiration and yardstick, documentation of zeitgeist and quality timelessness in design. Because quality craftsmanship unites the works that make it into the book. Cutting edge is allowed, but without skill it is worth nothing. Regularly leafing through the book sharpens your eye for detail—and inspires your work.

The TDC is unbiased and unprejudiced. Simply the best wins!

The 41st Annual of the Type Directors Club

Publisher: Verlag Hermann Schmidt
Design: Anagrama
Volume: 372 pages
Format: 21 × 28 cm
Language: English
Workmanship: Highly embossed hardcover with straight spine, scratch-resistant matte foil, and partial gloss varnish
Price: € 69.–
ISBN: 978-3-87439-955-5
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All Eyes On

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The German Design Council has developed a rich digital program called All Eyes On for the presentation of the German Design Awards 2021 winners and exciting topics related to design.

The highlights of the German Design Awards 2021 will be presented in a digital format from February 12th–March 12th, 2021. In addition to the presentation of the gold winners in the respective award disciplines, the Newcomer of the Year award will also be announced. This year’s Personality of the Year is Paola Antonelli, architect and curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In an interview with Lutz Dietzold (CEO of the German Design Council), she talks about the high points of her curatorial work so far as well as international design discourse.

In further interviews and talks, industry and design experts discuss the most important trends around the focal points of innovation, brand, sustainability and digitalization.

This year’s Personality award went to Italian-American architect and curator Paola Antonelli. Antonelli was born in Sardinia in 1963 and studied architecture in Milan. She has curated various different design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan, and writes for various high-profile publications. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York appointed her a curator in 1994.

“Through her previous work, whether as a curator, editor or author, Paola Antonelli has made an extraordinary contribution to design being perceived by a broad audience as a diverse cultural asset—and therefore as part of both an individual and societal identity—rather than being reduced to just aesthetics and functionality,” says Lutz Dietzold, reciting the jury’s decision.

The German Design Awards 2021 were given out in three award disciplines: Excellent Product Design, Excellent Communications Design, and Excellent Architecture. This year saw over 4,200 entries from 60 different countries. Accordingly, the international jury with representatives of business, science and design worked arduously to make their selection from the superb submissions. In the end, it picked a total of 76 Gold recipients in 71 categories.

German Design Awards
One of the core duties of the German Design Council is to observe, analyze and evaluate international developments in design. The German Design Council has established one of the world’s most recognized design prizes with the German Design Awards. The winners of each year’s German Design Awards are an example of the commercial and cultural value of outstanding design. They also offer a point of orientation while representing current issues and directions of design.

The German Design Council
The German Design Council has operated as one of the world’s leading centers of expertise in communication and knowledge transfer within design, branding and innovation since 1953. It is part of the worldwide design community and has always contributed to the establishment of global exchange and networking thanks to its international offering, promotion of new talent and memberships. With events, conventions, awards, jury meetings, and expert committees, the German Design Council connects its members and numerous other international design and branding experts, fosters discourse and provides important stimulation for the global economy. More than 340 businesses currently count among its members.

All Eyes On

When? February 12th–March 12th, 2021

Get further information about “All Eyes On” and all the winners of the German Design Awards 2021 and have a look at the program
The Winner of “German Design Award Newcomer” will be announced on March 5th, 2021.

Woodcut Vibes

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

We are very proud that today we can release the beautiful publication Woodcut Vibes by artist Roman Klonek. Let yourself be enchanted by this unique illustration form and be carried away into the magical world of woodcut printing.

For the release of the publication we talk to Roman Klonek about his wood cut work and present the publication online. We look forward to your participation via Zoom! Be invited to JOIN THE MEETING on February, 10th, 2021, at 7 p.m. (UTC+1). The ID and password are needed only if you don’t join via the direct link: Meeting ID: 460 202 5703, ID code: Xn6395

Roman Klonek, born in Kattowitz / Poland, has a spot for old fashioned cartoons and modern block printing styles. In the 90s he studied Graphic Arts in Dusseldorf and discovered a passion for woodcut. With this book the Dusseldorf-based artist gives a detailed insight into the working process and the background of his woodcut prints. 

The woodcut technique is particularly interesting, as it is primarily known as a “very old” medium and therefore often creates a surprise effect, especially with contemporary motifs. Feel invited to follow the pages about a variety of whimsical characters, often half animal / half human in preferably curious surroundings and embarrassing situations. 

A bizarre balancing act between propaganda, folklore, and pop!

Woodcut Vibes

Artist: Roman Klonek
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Design: Eva Sieben & Robert Buergel
Intro Text: Prof. Wilfried Köpke
Release: February 2021
Volume: 160 pages
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Language: English
Workmanship: Softcover with flaps, thread stitching
ISBN: 978-3-948440-19-0
Price: € 22.–
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European Design Awards 2021

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The European Design Awards 2021 is now officially open for entries. Designers from around Europe are invited to begin their submissions, which can be made before February 26th, 2021. 

The European Design Awards is an annual event, bringing together the best examples of communication design in Europe. As a joint initiative by the major communication design magazines on the continent, it is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious design awards on an international level. 

Winning an ED-Awards prize is a career-defining moment. It brings recognition amongst your peers, respectful clients, and new projects. Through our media network, winners receive maximum exposure for their hard work and efforts.

Submissions are carefully evaluated by a jury who are drawn from representatives of the leading design media in Europe. The jury members are all design editors, publishers, critics, and academics who curate communication design on a daily basis.

We are more than proud that our managing and art director Julia Kahl was selected for the jury of the print products this year. You can find the complete jury line-up here.

European Design Awards Festival
This years European Design Awards Festival will take place at Valencia, where the festival was supposed to take place in 2020, but had to be canceled due to COVID-19. The festival will include an awards show, conference, workshops, exhibitions, studio walks, and many other events. Creative people from all over Europe are expected to join the many events, which will also be open to the wider public. Please note that due to the ongoing pandemic, festival dates are provisional. Alternative plans are being drawn for all possible scenarios.

European Design Awards 2021

Entry Deadline: February 26th, 2021
Physical Samples: should be at the Athens office by March 10th, 2021
Notification of finalists: from April 11th, 2021 
Awards Ceremony and Festival: June 10th–13th, 2021

Get more informations about how to submit, submission fees, and the award itself

Stadio

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Aldo Novarese—Italian master of type design—Zetafonts is developing the digital revival of Stadio, a forgotten reverse contrast masterpiece designed by Novarese in 1974 and published only as rub-on transfer. Developed by Letraset in 1961, dry transfer letters have been for almost three decades an essential and beloved tool to graphic designers, architects, illustrators, and stationery lovers.

In Italy the most famous alternative to Letraset was the R41 line produced by Reber, which acquired directly from the type foundry Nebiolo the rights of its typeface designs by Aldo Novarese. R41 produced not only rub transfer versions of masterpieces like Eurostile, Estro, Stop and Forma, but also some of Novarese’s less known designs. Stadio, published by Reber in 1974, is one of these unpublished typefaces, with a striking design. Its name means literally “football stadium,” a reference to sports that fits well its curvy, bold shapes and its reverse contrast.

Prompted by the discovery of Stadio on the pages of Novarese’s book Il Segno Alfabetico, Zetafonts contacted R41 to propose its revival, to be published in 2020, on the occasion of Aldo Novarese’s 100th birthday.

Zetafonts design team worked on both a faithful recreation of the original design of Stadio and a family extension, exploring the possibilities of its language. Fans of Novarese and typeface lovers can pre-order Stadio Now on Zetafonts website, choosing between the standard pre-release edition and a deluxe one, that includes a limited edition fan scarf, designed by Allfontsarebastards, as well as the original R41 transfer sheets.

Zetafonts also involved the Italian graphic design community in Coppa Stadio, the first Italian football poster design cup, as a homage to Novarese through the fascination of ’70s football. Arnica Design, Studio 23.56, Leftloft, Davide Pagliardini, Happycentro, Basiq, Giovanni Stillittano, Rupert Graphic, Muttnik, Mister Gatto, Zup Design, Allfontsarebastards, Francesca Perpetuini, Testimanifesti, Dopolavoro, Sunday Buro, Francesco Paternoster, Fra! Design, Bob Liuzzo and Mooggeene have all contributed a poster dedicated to a regional football team of their choice.

Stadio

Designers: Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, and Francesco Canovaro
Type Foundry: Zetafonts 
Release date: December 2020
Weights: 10 weights + 10 Italics + 2 variable fonts
5 Stlyes:
Stadio Now Display (Thin, Thin Italic, Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Heavy, Heavy Italic)
Stadio Now Text (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic)
Stadio Now Hard (Display, Display Italic)
Stadio Now Monolinea (Monolinea, Monolinea Italic)
Stadio Now Novarese (Novarese, Novarese Italic)
File formats: OTF, TTF, EOT, WOFF, WOFF2
Test version
Prerelease Prices: single weights from € 29.–, full family (22 weights) from € 62.– 
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Tonight at Merlin

Posted on by Prima.Publikationen

The publication Tonight at Merlin captures the collection of posters graphic designers Mark Bohle and Raffael Kormann designed over the course of a year, for all concerts at the music and arts venue Kulturzentrum Merlin in Stuttgart. For each of the 80 posters, some of which have been awarded internationally, the publication offers an honest glimpse into the visual making-of and the corresponding thoughts behind. Moreover the publication is linked to the bands and their posters, enabling the reader to listen to the corresponding sound while deep diving into the artworks.

Three essays by Arne Hübner (booking Merlin, designer and DJ), Niklaus Troxler (poster designer and founder of the Jazz Festival Willisau), and Das bisschen Totschlag (Brunchpop-Band) contextualise this stimulating symbiosis of visual communication, music, and popular culture.

“The present publication shows an impressive annual production by a design team that draws on unlimited with high design standards.” — Niklaus Troxler

About the Designers
Raffael Kormann is a graphic designer and art director currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. After spending some time at ZEITmagazin in Berlin and Bureau Borsche in Munich, he graduated from the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. His creative practice involves every kind of visual communication—from corporate design and identity to all kinds of digital media, web design and moving image. Mark Bohle is a graphic designer. His studio in Barcelona works in a variety of cultural and economic fields. Their approach and graphic work is based on image-creation and grid-definition. They aim to structure content and communicate content in a coherent way.

Tonight at Merlin

Editor: Mark Bohle, Raffael Kormann, Kulturzentrum Merlin
Publisher: Prima.Publikationen
Design: Mark Bohle, Raffael Kormann
Release: November 2020
Format: 21 × 29.7 cm
Volume: 192 pages
Language: German
Workmanship: Swiss Softcover
Binding: Japanese Binding
ISBN: 978-3-9821198-3-0
Price: € 33.–
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Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2021 

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The Stiftung Buchkunst (Engl.: Foundation for Book Design) invites you to participate in two of their competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2021 (Engl.: The Best German Book Design 2021) and Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2021 (Engl.: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2021). The deadline for both competitions is March 31st, 2021.

Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2021 (Engl.: The Best German Book Design)

In the competition of Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher by Stiftung Buchkunst, 25 books are selected for award by an independent interdisciplinary jury of editorial design experts. The books chosen are outstanding examples of design, concept, and finish. There are five prize winners in each of the five categories: General Literature, Academic Works, Educational Textbooks, Guides, Non-Fiction, Art and Photography, Exhibition Catalogues, and Children’s and Young People’s Books. The selection also takes account of the more minimalistic, well-typed reading book.

All 25 books which gain an honorary award in the competition are automatically nominated for the Award of the Stiftung Buchkunst. Endowed by the German Government’s Representative for Culture and Media and with a total value of 10,000 Euros. This remunerative award is intended for books which show an exceptionally high degree of commitment on the part of their publishers and of all those involved in their production, and which through their overall design and finish provide new impulses to modern book design.

Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2021 (Engl.: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design)

Since 1989 the Stiftung Buchkunst has annually awarded the Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design. Design Students, book designers, typographers, and those in production are invited to participate. The award is intended to promote innovative book design. The prize aims to recognize innovative ideas surrounding printed books as well as hybrid book forms. As a prize for innovation it can thus provide a stimulative arena for the books of tomorrow. The prize is endowed by the German Government’s Representative for Culture and Media with a total value of 6,000 Euros and is divided equally between three up and-coming book designers, 2,000 Euros each.

Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2021 

Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2021
Deadline: March 31st, 2021
Prize: 10,000 Euros
Participate

Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2021
Deadline: March 31st 2021
Prize: 6,000 Euros in total (2,000 Euros for three up and-coming book designers)
Participate

Parcours Winter 2021

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

Parcours are Us!—On the exhibition Parcours Winter 2021. Despite the difficulties and limitations that the current situation around Corona still brings to each and every one of us, Parcours will continue to serve as a platform for exchange, for inspiration and for the love of design this semester.

Design transcends boundaries, allows us to break out of familiar thought patterns again and again, and helps us to overcome challenges even in unusual times. The course of the Münster School of Design (MSD) at Münster University of Applied Sciences is more than just an exhibition. Close, personal and authentic. Because Parcours is all that. Parcours is more. Parcours reinvents itself. And so it has done in this semester, which has once again been extraordinary for all of us.

From the social magazine to sustainable product solutions to the flexible exhibition concept: Parcours presents design and designers in all their diversity. Against all odds, Parcours has always been and is especially unique now: tangible, digital, innovative—and this time, once again, virtual. Parcours is Us. You are invited to experience the final projects of the graduates of the Münster School of Design in a virtual tour from February 12th, 2021–14th, 2021. A live program will offer additional exciting insights as well as online lectures by the graduates.

You too can contribute to making the event a virtual space for encounters. A space in which we create a new, colorful image in all our uniqueness. Help to bridge the anonymity of the digital space. Visit Parcours from the comfort of your own home!

In various Zoom presentations, graduates will have the opportunity to present their graduation theses to a broad and diverse digital audience. There will also be a dynamic Instagram Live Talk with graduates from different fields of study. The aim of the talk is to give listeners an insight into the course of their studies, from stories about formative courses to finding a Bachelor’s or Master’s topic, and to provide interesting insights into the everyday life of a student at the Münster School of Design.

In addition, we are looking forward to an attractive panel of experts with the topic: Design point of view—Past—Present – Future, moderated by Dean Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Ralf Beuker and with experienced design experts such as: Nina Sieverding, Anton Rahwles (Editor-in-Chief Form Magazin), Bettina Schulz (Creative Paper Conference, former Editor-in-Chief NOVUM), Thomas Poschauko (Visual Artist, Author: Nea Machina) and Prof. Rüdiger Quass Von Deyen (Founder + Creative Director KD1 Designagentur, Co-Founder FURE The Future of Reading—Design Conference).

In addition, there is a podcast about the event with interviews and insights that you can already listen to!

Parcours Winter 2021

When?
February 12th–February 14th, 2021
See the full program here

Where?
Online on Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube
Language: German
Price: for free

TypeTech MeetUp—Second Session

Posted on by Laura Nadvornik

The TypeTech MeetUp—Second Session with the theme Multiscript and Web typography will take place on February 26th, 2021, starting at 4:30 p.m. CET for about 2.5 hours followed by a relaxing online Chill & Chat. The TypeTech MeetUp is a forum to jointly develop, discuss, and document the current state of font technology as well as create a platform for the exchange of best practices, to advance the state of the art and to promote the integration of font technologies into the future of digital communication.

You can hear web designer/developer Hui Jing Chen and multiscript type designer Titus Nemeth as main speakers, who will each present a 30-minute talk, followed by a short interview with front-end developer Sara Soueidan lead by editor Linda Kudrnovská.

The first part is followed by a socializing/networking break with possibilities of private conversations or just hanging out in the virtual room with other participants and speakers.

The second part will be a moderated discussion group with experts Sahar Afshar, Irene Vlachou, Yanone, and Simon Cozens plus speakers for about one hour. Here the online audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to the conversation.

At the last agenda point designer/developer Yanone will present his open source font installation technology dubbed Type.World.

This event is the second TypeTech MeetUp out of four. The next events are: Tools and (collaborative) Font Design on May 7th, 2021, and Type Design and Society on July 16th, 2021.

TypeTech MeetUp—Second Session

When?
February 26th, 2021, starting at 4:30 p.m. CET for about 2.5 hours

Timetable:
4:15 p.m. Doors Open
4:30 p.m. Welcome: Boris Kochan, Gerry Leonidas, and Veronika Burian
Titus Nemeth: Flexible justification strategies for Arabic and beyond
Interview with Sara Soueidan lead by Linda Kudrnovská
Hui Jing Chen: East Asian typography on the modern web
6 p.m. Socialising Break
6:15 p.m. Moderated Discussion with Hui Jing Chen, Irene Vlachou, Sahar Afshar, Simon Cozens, Titus Nemeth, Yanone
7 p.m. Yanone presenting Type.World
7:15 p.m. Chill & Chat

Speakers: Hui Jing Chen, Titus Nemeth, Sara Soueidan, Linda Kudrnovská, Sahar Afshar, Irene Vlachou, Yanone, and Simon Cozens
Organizer: GRANSHAN together with Google, Glyphs, Kochan & Partner, and TypeTogether
Price: the event is free to attend but you can make a donation
Get your ticket here

 

INDEX

Posted on by virgilio

INDEX is a publication series, library, and collaborative community based on continual remix, input, and output from an open-source, managed library of writing, photography, drawings, and design, by Virgilio Santos, Andrew Chee, and Marc Shillum. A collaboration across three states and two time zones, Index Issue #1 FLAT explores and expresses what we observe as the flattening, flatness, and related qualities of living in the world today.

Founded during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in 2020, INDEX is an open forum, inviting collaborators to pool their collective insight and understanding to fuel and promote positive social change.

FLAT was written, designed, and published simultaneously as a periodical and a shared library. In the print edition, they embrace the flatness of print-on-demand; like photocopying before, and hand printing before that, it celebrates the idea of an infinite facsimile. As an experiment in publishing, each copy may not be as intended, but an interpretation through the medium of distributed printing. As such, each version of this edition embraces chance imperfections, will be subtly different, slightly decayed by the deviation in machinery, handwork, paper-stock, trimming, binding, and shipping.

INDEX

Idea and Realization: Virgilio Santos, Andrew Chee, and Marc Shillum
Release: November 2020
Publishing: Rote Press
Format: 210 × 297 mm
Volume: 510 pages
Edition: Limited Edition of 250 copies
Language: English
Printing: black and white
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9969508-0-0
Price: $ 28.–
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