“Was macht eigentlich …?” Exhibition

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In 2010, designer Chris Campe photographed over 1,000 store signs in Hamburg and published a typographic portrait of the city in the book “Hamburg Alphabet.” But the city is changing rapidly. That’s why Chris Campe photographed the signs and their locations again ten years after the book was published.

An updated new edition of the “Hamburg Alphabet” will be published in a limited edition of 250 copies to accompany the “Was macht eigentlich …?” Exhibition at Enfants Artspace.

“Was macht eigentlich …?” Exhibition

Where?
Enfants Artspace
Pilatiuspool 19
20355 Hamburg

When?
Vernissage: Friday, March 6th, 2020, 6 p.m.
Opening hours: March 7th, 8th, and 28th, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Finissage: Sunday, March 29th, 2020, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Lettering workshop in the exhibition
Sunday, March 29th, 11:30 a.m. to 13:30 p.m.
Registration

More information here.

The book can already be pre-ordered here.

 

Mia Seeger Prize

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The Mia Seeger Prize goes into the next round: student works can be submitted until 17th of April, 2020. Then the six-member jury (which will be announced soon) will meet to discuss and evaluate all the works and award prizes to the best ones. Thanks to the support of the Hans Schwörer Foundation and the German Design Council, a total of 10,000 euros will be awarded.

In addition, all participants will be given the opportunity to take part in a one-day workshop that will provide information on intellectual property rights for design work. Free of charge.

About
As every year, prizes will be awarded for product designs and concepts with a social background. Such as medical projects as well as conclusive ideas for more sustainability, energy efficiency, new forms of mobility or social improvements.

Mia Seeger Prize

Submission deadline
17th of April, 2020

Get all conditions of participation here.

EDCH TALKS

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On the 10th and 12th of March there will be two live video podcasts including public broadcasting. The EDCH TALKS are about design, creativity, and technology with an added educational mission for society.

Be there live when editorial designers and magazine makers meet educational visionaries from the design scene and become the magazine of today themselves—with interviews and interventions, discussions and sessions, in a video podcast with public broadcasting. EDCH tracks down the inventors, the visionaries and the practitioners, and together we look behind the scenes and think outside the box: How can we devise new education and training methods and anchor them in society over the long term?

EDCH TALKS—Designing Education & Society

When?
March 10th (English)
5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

12th (German), 2020
5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where?
Oskar von Miller Forum /  Roof garden on the 7th floor and conference hall on the ground floor
Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 25, 80333 München

Reservation required, subject to a fee
Get more information here.

Get your tickets for the 10th of March here.
Get your tickets for the 12th of March here.

Cast it #3

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Cast it #3 is a publication discussing the history and culture of type and it is a specimen showing the CAST typefaces in use too. In the first issue they chose the entry Fonditore di caratteri da stampa (“Type founder”) from the Dizionario delle Arti e dei Mestieri (Venice, 1769). In the second issue, their “test” text was the first two chapters of The printer’s grammar, a manual for compositors written and published in London in 1755.

Cast it #3 features one of the earliest descriptions of type founding in German: Der Schriftgiesser (the type founder), an entry originally included in Werkstätte der heutigen Künste oder die neue Kunsthistorie—a virtually encyclopedic series concerning trades originally written by Johann Samuel Halle and published in Leipzig between 1761–1779. Thanks to Dan Reynolds, they now have Halle’s text for the first time in English. This comes with the only commentary on its contents ever published in any language.

Der Schriftgiesser was published in 1762, as a chapter in the second volume (the entire volume has been scanned by Google.) This text on type founding was republished in 1922. Dan Reynolds photographed the pages of that edition, and you can see/download them here.

CAST—Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici designs, produces and sells typefaces for publishing and branding. They also offer technical advice on type design and on-demand creation of custom fonts. Besides type designers and programmers, their team includes professionals with a variety of skills. They work closely with Italian and international publishers, printing historians, typographers and calligraphers. This has enabled them to set up a network of “contributors” and, starting from January 2017, to launch a series of articles on the science, history and culture of printing. These can be found in the Articles section of their website.

Cast it #3

Publisher: Lazy Dogs Press
Coproduced: CAST Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici
Editors: Massimo Gonzato, Riccardo Olocco
Design: Tipiblu
Volume: 48 pages
Format: 16.5 × 24 cm
Craftsmanship: Softcover
Language: English edition (original text in German)
Release: December 2019
ISSN: 2531-765

ISBN: 978-88-98030-27-9
Price: 13.– Euro
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Surfing Bauhaus – Hessen + Typography

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Every day, new artifacts related to the Bauhaus surface online, and with the 100th anniversary of the school, the number is reaching a peak. Surfing Bauhaus – Hessen + Typography confronts this flood of information and approaches the institution Bauhaus in a contemporary way.

Becker and Hoffmann Robbiani focus on Bauhaus representatives who had a connection to Hesse and worked typographically. Using Internet search engines, they collect, filter, and combine digital results with material researched using more classic methods, from archives and libraries. In their search, the editors—a graphic designer and a professor of typography and communication design—work by association, provoking forms of digression and meandering, switching between English and German, and thus achieving an open perspective on the Bauhaus: a compilation of essays, links, data, references, and anecdotes, retrieved in 2019. No claim to completeness.

With contributions by Kai Buchholz, Tine Melzer, Michael Mischler and Christoph Stähli Weisbrod, Sabrina Rahman, Dan Reynolds, and Florian Walzel

Surfing Bauhaus – Hessen + Typography

Publisher: Jovis
Editors: Tobias Becker / Sandra Hoffmann Robbiani
Volume: 288 pages, num. col. and b/w
Craftsmanship: Softcover
Language: English / German
ISBN: 978-3-86859-601-4
Release: December 2019
Price: 33.– Euro
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Photos: Ursula Raapke

Fruit Exhibition Bologna 2020 Open Call

Posted on by Betti Kuntz

Fruit Exhibition Bologna 2020 is the annual independent art book fair of Bologna, taking place from May 29th to 31st. Open to the public, Fruit Exhibition includes artists’ books, catalogs, graphic design projects, periodicals, stationary, and zines.

REPLICA, the Italian artist’s book archive, and Fruit Exhibition are looking for editorial and visual project to show the unusual point of view of the last decade’s travel publishing. Narrative and visual storytelling that combine poetry and information through the artistic eye of a writer, photographer, designer.

The projects selected by Fruit Exhibition will have the opportunity to participate in the market fair (filling out the application form) or to be sold at Fruit’s bookshop present at the event, through a consignment deal. The projects selected by REPLICA will have the opportunity to be part of its collection and to participate in the exhibition curated by REPLICA, in collaboration with Fruit Exhibition, as part of the focus dedicated to travel publishing.

Fruit Exhibition Bologna 2020 Open Call

Deadline: March 10th, 2020
Email to [email protected] heading “FOCUS VIAGGIO”

Get more information about the fair and the application here.

CXI Conference 2020 #12

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he largest European corporate and brand identity conference CXI is entering it’s twelfth round and will again present outstanding branding case studies. On September 18th selected clients and brand agencies will again be showing together how things look from both sides of the partnership, identifying problem areas and presenting solutions at CXI Conference 2020 #12. They will give insights into the complexity and sheer breadth of what is involved in defining a project, bringing clarity to desired outcomes, decisions that are made to achieve these, and the results that can be expected.

This year the following companies and agencies are participating: Arndt Benedikt, Frankfurt a.M.; The Base, Berlin; DesignStudio, London; DIA, New York; Futurium, Berlin; GW+Co, London; Heine/Lenz/Zizka, Berlin; Make Studio, Hamburg; Onefootball, Berlin; Der Spiegel, Hamburg; Yale, London

CXI Conference 2020 #12

When?
September 18th, 2020

Program:
Start of registration: 8:45 a.m.
Lectures: 9:45 a.m. till 6 p.m.

Where?
Lokschuppen
Stadtheider Strasse 11
Bielefeld

Further information here.

Squadron

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Turning past into present with typography and photography. The title “Squadron,” that appears in the 1942 documentary on Czechoslovak airmen in Great Britain, was the initial inspiration for a photographic—typographic project, whose basic concept is a reflection on the story of Czech airmen. The fates of Czechoslovak airmen during World War II represent an important moment in history that, in its moral significance, transcends the borders of the Czech Republic.

For artistic duo of typographer Jan Matoušek and photographer Vojtěch Veškrna, the gateway to the subject was its visual power. Through the creation of fonts and photographic images, they tried to mirror the themes in a new, personally conceived form. The font family and the photographic series, in harmony with the historical context, create an original work that allows the viewer to perceive the past and the present simultaneously. Squadron is a book—a tool really—for further intellectual searching and new interpretations. Within the rigid confines of the font patterns with carefully observed dimensions, that is, into a space where rules are paramount, the creators attempted to also imprint a living, organic content. Just like the pilot is part of the extremely technically-dominated world of his aircraft.

Two timelines intertwine in this book. On the photographic level, history is represented by the work of Ladislav Sitenský, whose photographs of British bases were digitalized specifically for this book. The present day is represented by Vojtěch Veškrna and his photo series from the air base of the tactical Air Force in Čáslav. Both photographers have in common a fascination with aviation, and therefore also with the symbiosis of man and machine.

The typography reflects the past using a newly-created font family. The aesthetics and morphology of the Squadron font are based on period geometrical fonts, such Futura or Gill Sans, that at the time bore modernist ideals. The designers’ subjective and personal views on the events of World War II are presented in the book through the flight diaries of Alois Vašátko and Miroslav Štandera—airmen who’d already met in the fighting for France and later came together in the British 312th Fighter Squadron. In the pre-printed outlines of their flight logs,  handwritten records of hours and minutes were traced, that is, concise entries, from which complex stories can be deduced. Squadron deconstructs the font mechanism on the pages into individual segments and examines the construction of characters so that they can be used to create words and whole sentences. In connection with this,  photos of even the smallest parts of the aircraft are presented, gradually working up to their overall shape. In the same way, this book can be opened up and subsequently deconstructed to find new contexts.

A fundamental moment for the creators of the Squadron project was their meeting and interview with Brigadier General Miroslav Štandera. During his life, he managed to experience enough for at least two additional ones, despite which he withstood all of the dramas and somersaults of fate, and with elegance and humor at that. In response to the question of why, in 1939, he voluntarily left his, at the time, occupied homeland, he replied:

“We took it as our duty. We were brought up a little differently than you’ve been. We were Masaryk’s guys, most of us simply thought that way.”

Those words helped Matoušek and Veškrnareason understand for why, despite the uncertainty and facing a dramatic fate, Czechoslovak airmen voluntarily left to fight for democratic ideals, freedom and human values. Not three weeks after their visit to Miroslav Štandera, this last fighter pilot and direct participant in the battles in France and Great Britain passed away, at the age of 95.

As representatives of the generation born at the end of the twentieth century, Matoušek and Veškrna were able to glimpse the last rays of light of a setting story. Czechoslovak airmen often paid twice for their courage—those who survived the war were jailed or otherwise persecuted. And even their children, due to the inconvenient reputations of their fathers as “western airmen” were not allowed to study, or were subjected to other hardships in their lives.

Since the end of the Second World War, the world has managed to change radically and accelerate. The world witnesses and participates in the shifting of human and technical possibilities, rapidly changing standards of behavior, social dogmas and rules. From this moment of the present, people constantly reflect on the past and create a vision of the future. Squadron is a tool designed to support this creative process, of which everyone is a co-creators. Hopefully, it also bears the torch of a story that should be remembered.

Squadron typeface

Designer: Jan Matoušek
Development: 2014–2019
Weight: Bold, Medium, Regular, Light, Thin + Italics
Language support: Latin Extended
Licenses: Desktop and Web
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Squadron specimen book

Publisher: Biggboss
Conception: Jan Matoušek & Vojtěch Veškrna
Designed: Jan Matoušek
Photography: Ladislav Sitenský, Vojtěch Veškrna
Texts: Jan Matoušek, Vladimir 518, Jiří Rajlich
Craftmanship: Hardcover
Format: 18 × 24 cm
Volume: 280 pages
ISBN: 978-80-907383-5-5
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Adobe Live in February: The big Photoshop birthday special

Posted on by Julia Kahl

Nine creative people in nine sessions over three days. It’s Photoshop’s birthday and we are celebrating all of the possibilities: Traditional, highly professional image processing and photography will be given a stage, as well as illustration, image composition, storytelling and digital smartphone art.

We are celebrating the ideas that can be realized with Photoshop. From the small sketch to high-resolution 3D artwork. So watch out—as you’ll be able to experience inspiration, techniques and many great ideas. It will be exciting, crazy and beautiful. For three days, the best creative minds in the field of image editing will show you what Photoshop can do. So click the link and be there live, get inspired and celebrate 30 years of Photoshop.

18 February 2020: 10.00 am–4.00 pm
Creativity at all levels

  • Alina Schessler, Photography: 10.00 am–12.00 pm
  • DomQuichotte, Cinematography and retouching: 12.00 pm–2.00 pm
  • Sina Domke, Storytelling: 2.00 pm–4.00 pm

19 February 2020: 10.00 am–4.00 pm
Exposing ideas in color

  • Eva Widermann, Illustration in Photoshop: 10.00 am–12.00 pm
  • Mikiko, Manga artist: 12.00 pm–2.00 pm
  • Olaf Giermann, Photo manipulation: 2.00 pm–4.00 pm

20 February 2020: 10.00 am–4.00 pm
Channel mixer disco

  • June Lawrence, Smartphone editor: 10.00 am–12.00 pm
  • JustCaan, YouTuber and content creator: 12.00 pm–2.00 pm
  • Robert Maschke, Photography and professional retouching: 2.00 pm–4.00 pm

Click the link and be there. The presenters Can Döner and Rufus Deuchler from Adobe are looking forward to meeting you! 18–20 February, from 10.00 am–4.00 pm each day.

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Allrounder Grotesk

Posted on by Moritz Kleinsorge

Meet Allrounder Grotesk, a decent and modest font and the first member of the multipurpose Allrounder superfamily.

A workhorse that lives up to its name, Allrounder Grotesk consists of ten weights ranging from a delicate Air to a powerful Black with 900+ glyphs per font. Each weight is accompanied by carefully hand-corrected italics.

The sans serif typeface supports more than 200 Latin-based languages, containing the complete “LatinPlus” glyph set developed by underware. It also provides you with plenty of OpenType features: small capitals, ten sets of figures, case-sensitive forms, ligatures, superiors, fractions, and arrows.

The multitalented typeface was developed from 2018 to 2020 by Moritz Kleinsorge. It lays the foundation for Kleinsorge’s Allrounder superfamily, a series of typefaces sharing the same color and vertical metrics (cap height, small cap height and x-height). The aim of this series is to create a typesetting system whose components match each other perfectly. Look at Allrounder Grotesk as the first part of a design kit: every serif typeface that will follow may be easily combined with Allrounder Grotesk.

Allrounder Grotesk

Type Foundry: Moritz Kleinsorge
Designer: Moritz Kleinsorge
Release: January 2020
Weights: 10 from Air to Black + Italics
File Format: OpenType
Test Version: on request
Price Family: € 220 / $ 245
Price per weight: € 29 / $ 35
Discount until February 23rd: 65 %
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Special offer for Slanted Blog readers: 80 % off; use the code slanted80 at MyFonts

European Design Awards 2020

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Until February 21st, you can still apply for the European Design Awards 2020. Take the chance and prove yourself agains the most talented creatives from all over Europe. Apply Now!

Since 2007 a group of people, made out of publishers, journalists, editors, and academics, come together on a yearly basis, to gather, evaluate and acknowledge the best examples of communication design in our continent.

It is a very special and unique set up, in the sense that it involves the people who curate similar content on an every day basis. As such it also provides participants with an opportunity to make their work visible to a wider audience (through the media that the jury members represent).

The European Design Awards wraps up with a festival in a different city every year, leading up to the awards ceremony. This creates an ideal opportunity for the most creative people of our community to come together, benchmark, be inspired and celebrate.

European Design Awards 2020
• Entry deadline is set for February 21st, 2020
• Physical samples (for the categories that they are required) should be at our Athens office by March 6th, at the latest
• Notification of finalists will commence on April 6th and continue for a week
• The awards ceremony (and accompanying festival) will take place in Valencia June 11th–14th, 2020

European design festival
This year’s Festival will take place in Valencia with the care of the Asociación de Diseñadores de la Comunidad Valenciana. 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.

Get more information about the competition, application and the festival here.

art Karlsruhe 2020

Posted on by Julia Kahl

art Karlsruhe 2020 opened its doors today for a preview and we had a first look at the program of 200 international galleries as well as numerous one-artist shows, flanked by a varied supporting program and the special exhibitions.

For the third time, the “Karlsruhe Multiple” project draws attention to an endangered species. As in previous years, the art project initiated by Vollack is a cooperation with the Karlsruhe Zoo and the State Majolica Manufactory. In 2020, it is the Humboldt Penguin that is the artistic subject of the project. The work by artist Klaus Gutowski will be presented to the public for the first time at art Karlsruhe.

We gained a first impression of the 17th edition of the artfair especially in the field of prints and edition objects as well as contemporary art. Especially the former often represents the beginning of a collector’s life with the acquisition of a print, since it is well known that the prices here are attractive even for beginners due to the “serial” character. And the medium of printmaking also deserves attention: almost all artists have tried their hand at aquatint, lithography, silkscreen or woodcut.

Particularly noteworthy here is the special exhibition in the private collection of Hans-Peter Haas (*1935 in Stuttgart), who has been working with internationally renowned painters and sculptors for over 60 years, bringing their ideas to life through print. Among them are greats such as Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana, Max Ernst and Günther Fruhtrunk, as well as Heinz Mack and Victor Vasaerely. Haas’s works bear witness to an extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship, which has earned him a unique reputation worldwide.

It is no coincidence that art Karlsruhe is dedicating a hall of its own to the youngest generation: it still sticks to canvas and color and only partially addresses the seductions of digital origin. The works of art often have a figurative, political and experimental effect on us.

Those who can take the time to take a look at the current art market themselves are best advised to visit art Karlsruhe from 13 to 16 February 2020.

In 20 Posters Around the World

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ENTKUNSTUNG is an independent forum for art criticism and practice based in Berlin and Vienna. On the occasion of the publication of their third yearbook, they invited 22 artists and designers from all over the world to participate and support their project In 20 Posters Around the World by creating an exclusive poster artwork.

The result: 20 wonderful posters that represent not only each artist’s aesthetic but also a strong feeling of community and cooperation. The posters are available in their online shop in a limited edition of 10 each, hopefully finding a new home in people’s homes soon.

From Tokyo to Johannesburg, from Berlin to México City, from Lausanne to Bogotá, all the people involved in this project have a lofty and humble idea of working together based on solidarity. ENTKUNSTUNG knew their work because they admire what they do. Although some of the artists, graphic and type designers, and photographers didn’t know about the non-profit curatorial platform, the response to our request terrific and the support bigger than they could have ever imagined. The artworks are crucial for the art project to finance their latest publication—their third yearbook—and to keep the ongoing project and new ventures alive.

The book reunites more than 90 articles and artworks from people from around the world in a 300-pages book every year. ENTKUNSTUNG is an independent forum for art criticism and practice based in Berlin and Vienna. Since 2017 they have been committed to creating critical content alongside more than 300 artists, writers, and musicians through their printed publications, online journal, group shows, online exhibitions, and more than 20 performances and live-electronic music events.

The limited poster edition helps the project to remain autonomous, critical, and independent to keep their engagement with artists and writers dedicated to the reflection and production of contemporary art and cultural criticism. Their projects are based on the idea of consolidating a strong we, and so are the thoughts of the artists and writers participating in their first poster edition and publications.

See all Posters of the In 20 Posters Around the World series here.

Blow

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Blow is a dynamic sans serif in five weights. Rooted in medieval style, Blow shifts from firm forms into smooth curves and waves. For each alphabet and figures, numerous alternates come in three steps, taking the idea of hard and soft forms with each step a bit further. Purposefully used, Blow allows the designer to have a lot of options to work with. You can easily select each alternate group through Stylistic Set (01–03), or get the wildest typography with nice to types unique randomizer. Just activate Contextual Alternates and have fun!

Blow’s energy doesn’t stop at its upper- and lowercase alternates: All alternate figures can be set in tabular layouts, too. So if your next business report needs a fresh breeze, you’re ready to go. Of course Blow doesn’t lack of standard features like superior lowercase and figures, as well as slashed zeros or individual fractions. You just have to make sure that your application or browser supports OpenType technology.

Blow

Typeface name: Blow
Type foundry: nice to type
Designer: Yanik Hauschild
Release: November 2019
Weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold
Available font formats: Postscript and Truetype flavored OpenType Fonts, Woff/Woff2
Test version available: Yes
Price one weight: 50.– Euro
Price family: 180.– Euro
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Fruit Exhibition Bologna 2020

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Fruit Exhibition Bologna 2020 is the annual independent art book fair of Bologna, taking place from May 29th to 31st. Open to the public, Fruit Exhibition includes artists’ books, catalogs, graphic design projects, periodicals, stationary, and zines.

Applications for the 8th edition of Fruit Exhibition are due within April 15th. Spring time has been chosen this year to host publishers, artists, printers, and all those involved in independent publishing, both paper work or digital.  The 2020 edition will be focused on travel publishing and urban visual culture.

Fruit Exhibition will participate in the Paratissima Art Fair taking place in Bologna with a selection of the best international works dedicated to contemporary art: catalogues, magazines, and art books. Amongst the available titles, new but also out- of- catalogue and collectors’ editions.

Get more information about the fair and the application here.

Air Pollution Absorbing Poster

Posted on by WhiteRabbitBudapest

PANTONE recently announced its 2020 Color of the Year, Classic Blue. The blue hue is described as a “boundless blue evocative of the vast and infinite evening sky,” and is said to “increase one’s perspective and open the flow of communication.”

However, Classic Blue is more than just a color. It presents WWF Hungary an opportunity to highlight an environmental issue: air pollution.

WWF Hungary’s head of communications, Csaba Klacsán, told LBB Online that PANTONE’s Classic Blue color has highlighted “how fragile the ecosystems are,” adding that the air pollution issue has unfortunately made the environment “dangerously toxic.” WWF Hungary has thus started a #SaveClassicBlue campaign with advertising agency White Rabbit to encourage people to fight against air pollution creatively.

The organization has also created posters that can absorb pollution from the air using a technology that helps to change the “gray” skies back to “blue” again.

Forward Festival Munich 2020

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Forward Festival returns to Munich! Within six years, the festival for creativity, design and communication has become a platform for the entire creative industry.

Forward is inspired by its hometown’s vibrant history of Viennese Modernism. By bringing this idea into the present, the festival is all about connecting and exchanging.

This year, the festival’s focus is set on the challenges of the digital world and the human need for the analog counterpart. Forward approaches the topic from diverse perspectives with speakers such as Anton & Irene, Rodeo FX, Aaron Duffy and Jim Stoten.

Be part of the experience and meet like-minded creatives at Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München.

Forward Festival Munich 2020

When?
March, 12th–13th, 2020

Where?
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
80333 Munich

Get more information here.

Geogrotesque Expanded Series

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Emtype Foundry introduces the new Geogrotesque Expanded Series, that comes in three widths: Wide, Extended and Expanded, that go between 120% and 200% of the normal width. Since the original Geogrotesque is slightly condensed, the Wide family becomes a good option for texts. Whereas the Extended and Expanded are ideal for display sizes. With the inclusion of the Expanded Series and the preceding Condensed ones (we wrote about the Condensed Series and the Geogrotesque Slab before), the super family is now a complete widths system.

The original Geogrotesque is a semi modular with a subtle rounded finish typeface. All the characters are based in the same formal principle with its corresponding optical adjustments in order to adapt the system to an alphabet for texts. Although the type family has a geometric or technological construction, the rounded finish provides it a warm appearance, making the typefaces nicer and nearby. Geogrotesque has been conceived to be used as a display typeface in publications or intermediate length texts, most of all the Thin and Ultralight weights which were meant to be used in big sizes.

Geogrotesque Expanded Series

Foundry: Emtype Foundry
Designer: Eduardo Manso
Release: November 2019
Format: .otf, .eot, .svg, .ttf, .woff, .woff2
Weights / Widths / Styles: Thin, UltraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold + Italics, in Wide, Extended and Expanded
Price: Family 499.– €, Individual styles 45.– €
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Call for Entries Stiftung Buchkunst 2020

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

The Stiftung Buchkunst now invites you to participate in its two competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020 (The Most Beautiful German Books 2020) and Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2020 (Award for Young Book Design 2020). The deadline for both competitions is March 31st, 2020.

Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020
In the competition of the Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2020 (The Most Beautiful German Books 2020), two expert juries will select the 25 most beautiful books of the year in a multi-stage procedure. The books are exemplary in design, conception, and workmanship and show a wide range of creative and manufacturing possibilities. The award-winning books set the tone and show trends in German book production. There are five award winners in each of the five categories “General Literature,” “Scientific books / specialist books / school and textbooks,” “Guidebooks, non-fiction,” “Art books, photo books, exhibition catalogs” and “Children’s books, books for young people.” The selection also takes into account the quieter, well-typed reading book. The award-winning titles are also nominated for the Preis der Stiftung Buchkunst (Stiftung Buchkunst Prize), which is endowed with 10,000 Euros.

The competition is open to publishers, book designers, and the producing companies. New publications from the years 2019 and 2020 can be submitted (publication date: 01.04.2019–31.03.2020).

Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2020
The Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2020 (Award for Young Book Design 2020) aims to track down unusual, new ideas for printed books or hybrid book forms—and thus developments in the medium of book design—and to make visible book impulses for tomorrow and quality concepts of today. The focus here is not on technical perfection, but on the idea. In the Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung competition, a jury consisting of designers and university experts select three winning titles, each endowed with 2,000 Euros, to further develop the medium of the book. The award-winning books from both competitions, as well as the short and long list winners, will be exhibited at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

All necessary information and forms for participation can be found here.

Wo ist the latest shit?

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Where’s inspiration? Where’s fashion? Where’s augmented reality? Where’s the latest shit? Werkschau Augsburg – Wo ist the latest shit? might answer all of your questions!

Graduates of the Department of Design and Media will present their theses and exhibit their masterpieces in several subject areas. Alongside the Vernissage, the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg invites you to make yourself comfortable and get creative input by renowned speakers like 3D-Artist Marco Mori, graphic designer Rosa Kammermeier and creative director of Strichpunkt, Fabian Hammans alongside creative technologist Dr. Andreas Stiegler. You’re invited to come over and make Werkschau Augsburg your own comfort zone!

Werkschau Augsburg 2020 – Wo ist the latest shit?

Where?
Hochschule Augsburg
University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
Friedberger Str. 2
86161 Augsburg

When?
Exhibition at February 7th, 2020, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.,
February 8th,  from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

After Show Party at February 7th from 11 p.m.

More information here

Lesbar

Posted on by Slanted editors

The book “Lesbar – Typografie in der Wissensvermittlung” (engl.: legible—typography in knowledge transfer) explains the effects of didactic typography.

What if we could playfully learn, get all the knowledge we need as a film or at least as pictures which would really say more than a thousand words? Knowledge transfer still does not work without text. And it is always the typography that is responsible for the visibility of the content and it develops its effect far beyond that. The significance of this in the transfer of knowledge cannot be overstated. And yet it is a little known variable.

Writing—and with it the legibility—becomes visible in the public eye. The legibility—i.e. the arrangement of text, the connection between content and medium, the clarification of the content through the form, the work on and with visual conventions as a field within typography is largely unknown. For “Lesbar,” 25 authors write with cross-disciplinary approaches about legibility research. The textbook, rightly so, is moving in the focus. Reading as a process will finally be seen from the perspective of typographers. Pioneering projects are covered, in which typography is used intensively or mediated to a high standard . Last but not least there is a short introduction into the basics. The compendium explains what exactly the requirements for good readability are, investigates where and how typography can have an effect and how it must be composed for it to work.

With contributions by Martin Tiefenthaler, Jürgen Spitzmüller,Miriam Mayrhofer, Ulrike Borinski, Florian Adler, Saskia Kraft, René Spitz, Christina Bugge, Clemens-G. Göller, Sabina Sieghart, Rosalie Heinen, Susanne Heinicke, Silvia Werfel, Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, Michael Schlierbach, Verena Kiesel, Lisa Neuhalfen, Jan Filek, Antonia Cornelius, Björn Schumacher, Albert Jan Pool, Sabine an Huef, Petra Wöhrmann and Roland Stieger.

The Vernissage and release was part of the symposium “Das Auge liest mit. Über den didaktischen Mehrwert von Typografie …” in Vienna, November 29th and 30th, 2019. Around 200 persons, designers and design-researchers, linguists and teachers were a part of the event and made an informative exchange of knowledge possible.

Lesbar – Typografie in der Wissensvermittlung

Publisher: Triest Verlag
Author: Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, Ulrike Borinski
Design: Rudolf Paulus Gorbach
Volume: 312 pages
Format: 14.7 × 23.5 cm
Craftsmanship: Around 120 images, Hardcover
Language: German
Price: 39.– € (D), 40.– € (A), 39.– CHF (CH)
ISBN 978-3-03863-039-5
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Photography of the event by Michi Bundscherer

Typeface of the Month: Marble

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Our Typeface of the Month: Marble is a new versatile sans serif of the URW Asterisk Type Collection.

How do you introduce a new twist into a sans serif to create a font that is truly modern but, unlike the typical geometric sans serifs, full of character? It’s a challenging design brief but that’s where designers Vaibhav Singh and Alessia Mazzarella began when they started to create Marble for URW’s Asterisk Type Collection.

It’s a delicate balance that sees the structure and expected functionality of sans serifs in harmony with generous proportions and a more humanistic style.

The main point of departure was the idea of having full-bodied letters. Marble derives its character from the generous roundness of the x-heights which is balanced by the striking horizontal or vertical cuts to the terminals. The result is a readable font that encourages the eye to move from one shape to the next and that offers a range of possibilities for digital and print for corporate and publishing use.

What’s distinctive about this design is that the overall letter shapes have a full- bodied presence on the page. That gets pushed even further in the wider widths, says Vaibhav Singh. “For instance,” he says, “there’s an alternative approach to headlines, the idea of fitting a lot of narrow type into a headline is usually the case, but what if you want to set a headline with a lot of width and presence, would that be something you could do with a heavier weight? That’s the sort of counter intuitive notion that we played with.”

The widest spectrum of use was also a consideration as well as good readability on screen and in print. The result is a large family that is versatile and ideal for establishing hierarchies of information with a wealth of choices for headlines, subheadings, captions and body copy styles that are all in harmony with each other. The Wide style allows headlines to be set with width and presence.

Marble’s three widths (Condensed, Normal, and Wide) range from slender elegance to warmth and playfulness without ever being informal. With nine weights in Latin for each variant and true Italics, Variable Fonts are also available.

Marble

Foundry: URW Type Foundry
Design: Alessia Mazzarella & Vaibhav Singh
Release: August 2019
Widhts & Weights: Condensed, Wide, Display, Display Condensed, and Display Wide, each in nine weights: Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Heavy + Italics
Price: single weight 59.– € / family 399.– €
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Parcours Winter 2020

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

On behalf of all graduates, Parcours invites you to the exhibition of the bachelor’s theses from the fields of Illustration, communication-, Media- and Product Design as well as master’s theses of the Information and Communication course from February 7th to 9th, 2020.

Parcours is more than just an exhibition. Rich in contrast and versatile, sometimes contradictory, but always individual and special. Like a white beam of light through a prism, design can also be broken up into its many facets. At Parcours we overcome boundaries and make design experienceable, tangible, and create direct access and exchange. We are pleased to welcome all visitors to this special moment.

Parcours Winter 2020

When:
Vernissage:
February 7th at 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Exhibition:
Saturday, February 8th from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, February 9th from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where:
Münster University of Applied Sciences
MSD, Münster School of Design
Leonardo Campus 6
48149 Münster

Entrance is free!

Typostammtisch Hamburg 2020

Posted on by Jenna Gesse

If you like typography and want to talk about letters without apologizing for being nerdy—mark your calendar and join us at Typostammtisch Hamburg 2020!

Every two months the Typostammtisch offers the opportunity to learn about exciting typeface projects, meet other typophiles and spin ideas—open to all and free of charge. Each event begins with a short lecture as an inspiration and opportunity for discussion. Afterwards there is time for the casual part of the evening (the part with the cold drinks).

Kick-off, February 6th: Designer Jana Madle-Elmerhaus talks about her “TypoWalz”: Since last summer she has been visiting lead typesetting workshops all over Germany to learn the dying trade of typesetting.

Typostammtisch Hamburg 2020

When?
6.2. / 2.4. / 4.6. / 3.9. / 5.11.2020
Start: 7 p.m.
End: 10 p.m.

Where?
Studio der Filmfabrique
Stockmeyerstraße 43
20457 Hamburg (am Oberhafen)

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