GUM13

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The well worth reading, elaborately designed and carefully produced 13th edition of the GUM magazine, “GUM13,” published by the Institut für Buchgestaltung (Institute for Book Design) at the FH Bielefeld (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences), is all about typefaces and typography.

The magazine gives renowned typographers and proven experts the opportunity to speak on topics and questions concerning type, typography, Book and Magazine Design, as well as Graphic and Communication Design in interviews and essays and shows a cross-section of the best typographic works of students and alumni of the Department of Design at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. In addition to that, this issue documents how typography in postmodernism has almost completely emancipated itself from the typesetting trade and defies its actual “content-serving determination.” Some old-school typographers—in the sense of Kurt Schwitters’—might mockingly say that “Typography can be readable under certain circumstances”—but right or wrong and black or white are outdated by now. Long live the experiment and the desire to try it out! GUM presents typography for reading and viewing, for laughing and amazement, for stimulation, thrill and excitement!

With text contributions by Peter Bankov, Johannes Bergerhausen, Peter Bi’lak, Gerd Fleischmann, Juli Gudehus, Lorenz Hartwig, Anja Kaiser, Stefan Ostermeier, Josh Schaub, Martin Tiefenthaler, Kirsten Wagner, Julian Zimmermann, Susanne Zippel and many more.

GUM13—A Typographic Special Edition

Publisher: Institut für Buchgestaltung
Editorial and Layout: Lena Christ, Katharina Meier, Denise Albrecht
Art Direction: Dirk Fütterer
Photography: Patrick Pollmeier
Typeface: Chiswick, Paul Barnes, Commercial Type
Craftsmanship: Letterpress and Offset on the Cover, Hot Foil- and Relief Embossing
Paper: Munken Lynx and Print White
Volume: 148 pages
Weight: 570 grams
Format: 22 × 29 × 1.2 cm
Price: 15.– €
Shipping: Germany 3.– €, Austria / Switzerland 7.– €
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TypeTech Munich MeetUp 2020

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The TypeTech MeetUp has been postponed. It will be hold in November, in cooperation with the Dynamic Fontday of the Typographische Gesellschaft (tgm)—a weekend for type technology and typography! The new dates:

Friday, 13 November: TypeTech MeetUp
Saturday, 14 November: Dynamic Fontday
Sunday, 15 November: Workshops, sessions, roundtables

The TypeTech Munich MeetUp 2020 hosted by ATypI and Granshan is a unique event during the Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW), where communities of font engineers and designers, web designers and developers, industry experts and tech- and business professionals gather in a relaxed atmosphere. It 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 new technologies into future digital communication.

The event will include decisive input lectures and professional discussions on Friday. The Saturday will focus on roundtable discussions and workshops. Additionally, there will be the option to take part in a Typewalk through Munich and in the evening there will be a special announcement from Glyphs and the catalogue of results from the roundtable discussions with music and free drinks.

Confirmed speakers include Claudia Friedrich, Frank Rausch, Irene Vlachou, Joana Ranito, Bianca Berning, Vitaly Friedman, Niteesh Yadav, Titus Nemeth, Jan Charvát, Yanone, Isabel Lea, Laurence Penney—more to be announced soon.

  • Learn about new technologies and how type impacts the world of Web, UI / UX, AR / VR.
  • Get inspired and meet people that will help you grow your business.
  • Attend a series of workshops, talks and panel debates from industry experts.
  • Meet more than 90 professionals in a uniquely collaborative environment.

TypeTech Munich MeetUp 2020

When?

Friday, March 13th, 2020:
From 9 a.m. coffee and registration
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. talks and discussions

Saturday, March 14th, 2020:
From 9 a.m. coffee and registration
From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. roundtable discussions and workshops
Optional Typewalk with Katharina Seidl between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Evening: Drinks and the special announcement from Glyphs and announcement of the roundtable resolutions

Where?

Friday, March 13th:
Google München
Erika-Mann-Strasse 33
80636 Munich

Public transport:
Tram: 16 or 17 stop Deroystraße
Train: Stop Donnersbergerbrücke

Saturday, March 14th:
Kochan & Partner
Hirschgartenallee 25
80639 Munich

Public transport:
Tram: 16 or 17, stop Romanplatz
Bus: 51, stop Hirschgartenallee

The detailed schedule for the event is available at the TypeTech site. Talks will be held in English.

Tickets

TypeTech MeetUp is hosted by ATypI in connection with the Granshan Foundation, curated by Veronika Burian, Boris Kochan, and Gerry Leonidas, and with generous support by Google, Glyphs, Kochan & Partner, and TypeTogether. Event management by Ana Regidor. Graphic design by Laura Meseguer. Supporting partners are Typographische Gesellschaft München, EDCH Foundation, and MCBW.

Charting Futures

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The collaboration between Bloomberg and the data visualization Italian studio algo.tv continues, aiming to redefine the future of news media production. With Algo being a cloud platform creating real-time, data-driven videos from tailored design templates, it was the perfect match for Bloomberg’s needs to offer a concise weekly financial recap to a broader audience.

Powered by the motion design studio illo.tv, Algo creates tailored experiences for each project, blending data flow and the mighty power of automation with that quintessential human touch.

The Bloomberg Futures video campaign takes things even a step further tackling this impressive friendship between human creativity and machine precision, and giving data an actual voice. The introduction of customized voiceovers and quotes by a range of financial experts (written & uploaded on the Algo dashboard) is a stand out feature that really speaks for a project built to resonate.

So, how does it work? Every Monday, right after market closure, the team have man and machine joining forces to show how financial futures performed during that week. With every video launch Algo extracts the financial data from the Bloomberg API and generates the tailored charts & graphics, while the Bloomberg team handles the content curation from the dashboard.

Graphic variety meets financial data accuracy, with as many as four graphic themes and seven color palettes generating countless videos, constantly adapting to content.

Algo also makes the videos social friendly and versatile: the landscape 16:9 format posted on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter & the Bloomberg website automatically shifts to a 4:5 social format for Instagram, losing none of its features along the way.

Take a look at the project now.

NEVER MIND THE KIOSK FESTIVAL 2020

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The NEVER MIND THE KIOSK FESTIVAL 2020 is a conference initiated by Dortmund’s PRINTER’S KIOSK with the aim of developing new ways of communication between creative and producing corporate structures and to encourage cooperation.

Agencies, freelancers, printers, founders, and promoters talk about the necessity of communication, cooperation and team building in the media industry. At last.

Opinions, approaches and moods are taken up, broken down and openly discussed through the different perspectives of the speakers.

The possible and the previously impossible are rolled up and re-staged in discussion rounds. Networks are going to be created.

Illustrators and designers based in the Ruhr area will exhibit works on the topic and will be available for discussions during the event, and of course their works.

NEVER MIND THE KIOSK FESTIVAL 2020

When?
February 15th, 2020
11 a.m. until open end

Where?
Union Gewerbehof
Huckarder Str. 10–12
44147 Dortmund

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Ost Deutsch Now

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Sebastian Jung and the publisher Kerber released the book “Ost Deutsch Now” (engl. “East German Now.”) When asked, “What is East German Now,” Sebastian Jung’s answer is far from being one-dimensional or monocausal. On the contrary, his astute observations of all the unrealized promises of salvation are equally empathetic and witty. Revealingly, he intensifies and delegates the grotesque tension between oppressive solitude, consumption, and amusement to the beholders, whose laughter gets stuck in their throats. Despite its formal humor and wit, the works in Jung’s new book demand a distinguished discussion on violence, hatred, and solitude in East Germany.

Slanted is now giving away 3 × the book “Ost Deutsch Now!” To take part in the raffle, write an email with the subject “East German Now” and your postal address (for dispatch) to [email protected] by January 31st, 2020, 11 a.m. (UTC+1). The winners will be drawn after the deadline and contacted by email. Whoever takes part in the raffle agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!

OST DEUTSCH NOW

Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Author, Design: Sebastian Jung
Release Date: October 2019
Workmanship: Paperback, 99 Colored Illustrations
Format: 15 × 21 cm
Languages: German, English
Editor: Ella Falldorf
Text: Michael Arzt, Janine Dieckmann, Ella Falldorf, Osaren Igbinoba, Verena Krieger, Nhi Le, Sophia, Pietryga, Axel Salheiser, Sylka Scholz, Jörg Sundermeier, Christoph Tannert, Matthias Quent
Volume: 144 pages
ISBN: 978-7356-0647-1
Price: 25.– €
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Copyright imagery: Sebastian Jung

Showcased Artworks:
“Meine Freunde sind nach Bayern gezogen, ich nach Sachsen:”
Intervention in may 2019 in „Fleischerei Merkel“ in Zeitz
“Früher hat er Pornos gemacht, heute sammelt er Flaschen:”
Intervention in September and October in Chemnitz
“Karl Marx im Einkaufszentrum:”
Intervention in May 2018 in the shoppingcenter “neue mitte”
”Zeichnungen aus dem Vergnügungspark:”
24.8 × 21 cm each. Pen on Paper. July 2019, selection from the series

 

PRISMA

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A beam of light flashes up. It strikes the prism, is refracted and fans out. What emerges is something new: Light in all its facets. Wonderfully colorful and diverse—just like the 26 freshly graduated Communication Designers at HSRM Wiesbaden (Rheinmain University of Applied Sciences.) They too began their studies as blank sheets of paper, as pure white light, and finally came out as versatile designers in a wide variety of disciplines. The PRISMA Exhibition.

In February they will present themselves and their final projects to the public in a showcase. They are coming to the heart of the city: to the Palast Hotel in Wiesbaden. On February 13th the starting signal is given with the Vernissage at 7 p.m.. The exhibition of the final works can then be seen until 16th of February.

PRISMA Exhibition

When?
February 13th–16th, 2020
Vernissage: February 13th, 7 p.m.

Where?
Palast Hotel
Kochbrunnenplatz 1
65183 Wiesbaden
Germany

Branded Protest

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Branded Protest is a reference tool for the branding of current protest developments in context with historic relevant protest movements by Ingeborg Bloom and Klaus Kempenaars.

Many of the most successful and recognizable protest movements in the world make use of branding techniques, even when they simultaneously reject the general concepts of branding. Branded Protest dives into this antithesis. It researches the power of branding and the influence it has on current protest movements and gives iconic examples of unique branding-efforts that support protests.

We are all exposed to branding: from a torn sheet of cardboard scrawled with handwriting to slick corporate advertising campaigns. Here, we take up the term branding to assess the visualization of iconic protest movements, and to identify the unique tools used to attract the general public and activate people to join in. Branding has become a means to unify a movement and to give protest a visual identity. For Branded Protest we spoke with organizers of protest movements around the world to identify the particular techniques that help movements deliver a unique and clear message.

“It’s an interesting and timely read. There really could not be a better time for a book about the aesthetics of protest to come out than late 2019.”—Icon Magazine

Ingeborg Bloem is a co-founder of xSITE with a studio in Amsterdam. She is a cross-media creative director and designer with broad experience in the development of brand and communication projects.

Klaus Kempenaars is a co-founder of xSITE with a studio in New York. Specializing in branding experiences, Kempenaars has collaborated with international companies with various scopes and focuses.

Branded Protest—The Power of Branding and its Influence on Protest Movements

Publisher: BIS Publishers
Author: Ingeborg Bloem & Klaus Kempenaars 
Craftmanship: Paperback
Volume: 208 pages
Format: 27 × 18 cm
Price: 29.99 €
ISBN: 978-90-6369-541-5
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Tesseract

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Crisp and serrated, Tesseract is a study in modernity and restraint. As it plunged into classical references, it earned its contemporaneity through whetted endings and constrained curves, lending a focused aspect to texts and titles. With optical sizes for text and a display, Tesseract shimmers across media.

The Display size plays the wide aperture and x-height card, with chiseled terminals and see-through counterspace. The Text size is quieter, with a firm and sturdy structure for immersive reading. The matching Italics dance a vibrant staccato and complete the family.

The crucible is made of many-and not unlike Walt Whitman’s multitudes, it contains paradoxes. Where round turns give affability and amplitude to the design, abrupt endings and spiky details grant some grave austerity to an otherwise delicate design. For adventurous users, Tesseract contains multiple dimensions. Dive in.

Tesseract & Tesseract Display

Foundry: Production Type
Designer: Jean-Baptiste Levée
Team: Hugues Gentile, Marion Sendral
Release: 2019
Format: .otf (desktop); .woff, .woff2 (web); .ttf (app, epub, web, visual & film) 
Weights: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Bold, Black + Italics (for Text and Display each)
Price: 349.– € (desktop), 249.– € (desktop + app)
Type specimen available here
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The Process

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The Process is a series of books showcasing the unused and unseen ideas, concepts, mockups and sketches that are created during the branding process. Each branding project only has one outcome that makes it into the real world, however there are dozens of interesting and intelligent ideas that never see the light of day after being cast aside by the designer or not picked by the client. These books are about those ideas. Published by The Brand Identity.

The Process

Bienal, Collins, DesignStudio, DIA, Franklyn, Hype Type Studio, Passport, POST—, Public-Library, Socio Design, Vertigo, Yuta Takahashi
Publisher: The Brand Identity
Production / Print: Lunch Press
Format: 12.5 × 17.6 cm
Typeface: RM Pro by CoType Foundry
Design: The Brand Identity
Volume: 244 pages
Language: English
Price: 19.– £
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The Process Two

Bunch, Bureau Borsche, Mildred & Duck, Never Now, Only, Ragged Edge, StudioSmall, Underline Studio, Vrints-Kolsteren.
Publisher: The Brand Identity
Production / Print: Lunch Press
Format: 12.5 × 17.6 cm
Typeface: RM Pro by CoType Foundry
Design: The Brand Identity
Volume: 228 pages
Language: English
Price: 19.– £
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Saturday Type Fever 2020

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On your marks—get set—Type Design! On January 17th and 18th the second edition of Saturday Type Fever at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG Karlsruhe) took place. Like in the year before, it was organized by the NoFoundry—and we could participate again. Students from various art and design colleges in Europe were invited to work together on typefaces for 30 hours—accompanied by a diverse program of workshops, talks, installations, and various other formats.

This year, the different aspects of type design played an important role and were topic for many of the talks from the well selected speakers. Under the speakers were type-designers like Mads Wildgaard, graphic designers like Thomas Bizarri but also for example the Quaternio Publishers from Lucerne who were talking about typography in medieval books—with many original books to get in touch with. Slanted Founder and Editor in Chief Online, Julia Kahl, was invited to give a talk on Saturday, too. Further speakers were Leonie Lude and Arno Schlipf, Zsazsa Tuffy and Loraine Furter. The event ended Saturday on midnight after thirty hours—with a party, of course.

The student team built a wonderful organic furniture-landscape with many places to rest, have a few drinks and of course many workspaces for designing type. With everything you might need: Printers, Scanners, Snacks and luckily lots of coffee.

To us, this year’s edition of the Saturday Type Fever was a full success and we hope it won’t be the last one!

Typotable No. 4

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Typotable No. 4—Print meets Motion is part of the independent lecture series Typotable, where current type design and typography positions are shown and discussed. The lectures are held by established type and graphic designers as well as by young designers and students.

In this edition of Typotable No. 4 Prof. Andrea Tinnes will guide you through her visual research project “Library of Shapes, Texts and Structures.” Stefan Hürlemann shows stunning Motion Graphics for, among other, Nike and Fogo and gives insights in his work. TT No. 4 special: André Fuchs presents his free and open source project “The Ultimate List of Kerning Pairs”—a useful knowledge for every type designer.

Typotable is initiated by four type lovers from Leipzig in cooperation with the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Druckkunst Leipzig e.V.. It takes place quarterly in the Large Printing Hall of the Museum für Druckkunst.

Typotable No. 4—Print meets Motion

When?
January 30th, 2020
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Start: 7 p.m.
End: 9 p.m.

Where?
Großer Drucksaal im Museum für Druckkunst
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig

Tickets: 9.– € via tixforgigs

Note: Photo and film recordings will be made for the event. By participating in the event, you consent to the use of the recordings for documentation and advertising purposes.

Analog Algorithm

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Analog Algorithm—Source-Related Grid Systems is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger and deeper principles than immediate and spontaneous-intuitive actions.

Using a wide variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tool they need to find analytical forms—analog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.

The procedures described allow an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms for logos, fonts or patterns on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.

Analog Algorithm—Source-Related Grid Systems

Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Author: Christoph Grünberger
Design: Christoph Grünberger
Size: (w × h × d) 17 × 24 cm
Volume: 304 pages
Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-3-03778-593-5
Language: English
Price: 45.–
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item Magazin #1

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item (Independent platform for the Transfer of Educational impulses via a student Magazine) is the new student magazine of the Department of Design and Culture at HTW Berlin. The first issue of item (item Magazin #1) is dedicated to the topic “xeno.”

The prefix “xeno” originates from the Greek and translates to “foreign.” But what actually means foreign and how do you deal with it? What makes something different and is this so-called alien good or threatening? Which opportunities does the unknown offer us and how should we face them?

In the first issue of item, thirteen authors deal with questions like these and illuminate the topic for you from different perspectives. Students and teachers of the HTW Berlin as well as external authors have confronted the alien and provided inspiring impulses.
To capture the theme of “xeno” visually and to intensify the engagement with the topic, various anomalies and deviations from the defined system can be found in the first section. Some can be found at first sight, others have to be searched for a long time.

In addition to the discourse on the subject of “xeno,” 25 students of the Communication Design and Industrial Design degree program provide varied insights into their projects at the university. Just as wide-ranging as the design courses are, so is the insight that the magazine wants to give you: from photo series and illustrations through interaction design to font development and classic graphic design.

The magazine was founded, conceived, designed, and introduced by Sally Paschmann in the course of her bachelor thesis and is intended to provide insights into the debates, thoughts, impulses, and projects that arise during the course of studies. It provides a platform for students to introduce themselves and their projects and to consider their work in a socially relevant context. It also gives an exciting insight into the course of studies to external people.

item Magazin #1 – xeno

Publisher: HTW Berlin, Department of Design and Culture
Editor: Sally Paschmann
Graphic Design: Sally Paschmann
Contributors: Alice Rawsthorn, Kathleen Judith Hughes, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Andreas Töpfer, Decolonising Design Group, Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma, Katrin Hinz, Sally Paschmann, Melanie Glück, Birgit Weller, Yana Milev, Rebecca Merdes, Johanna Zech, Badria-Lea Bader, Sophia Brinkmann, Hanko Ye, Tetyana Gryniva, Felix Sewing, Flynn Jorinde Pätz, Marina Engelhardt, Julia Krämer, Rick Lewik, Joanna Wilkans, Markus Windt, Gregor Jahner, Marius Bergmann, Basil Boyacos, Michael Brummer, Tutku Gülsu Sahin, Christina Wunderlich, Giulia Degasperi, Johanna Leißner, Jennifer Naffin, Felix Bamforth, Fabian Zaja, Lara Melinda Hasic, Dorian Hehn
Release: October 2019
Format: 21 × 27.5 cm
Volume: 144 pages
Edition: 500 copies
Workmanship: Offset Printed on different high-quality paper grades like Munken, Grenita, and ProfiBulk
Language: German / English
Instagram: @item_magazin
ISSN: 2629-6691
Price: 9.– Euro

The magazine can be purchased via Instagram @item_magazin or at the HTW Berlin, Campus Wilhelminenhof.

Werkschau 2020 FH Bielefeld

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Once again, graduates of the department of design of the University of Applied Sciences FH Bielefeld will present their theses in the fields of photography and visual media, communication design, and fashion at the Werkschau 2020 FH Bielefeld. For three days, the department will become an exhibition and communication space for teachers, designers, friends, relatives, and all those interested in design.

You are invited to join the opening on Friday, January 31st, at 6 p.m. The traditional Werkschau-Party will also take place this semester. The celebration will take place on January 31st from 11 p.m. on, at Nr. z. P. in the Große-Kurfürsten-Str. 81.

On Saturday (01.02.) between 11–18 o’clock and on Sunday (02.02.) from 11–17 o’clock there will be the possibility to stroll through the exhibition and experience the exhibited works.

Werkschau 2020 FH Bielefeld

When?
Exhibition
January 31st, 2020, 6 a.m.–11 p.m.
February 1st, 2020, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
February 2nd, 2020, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Party
January 31st, 2020, from 11 p.m.

Where?
FH Bielefeld
Fachbereich Gestaltung
Lampingstraße 3
33615 Bielefeld

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Typeface of the Month: Arkit

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This Sans Serif gives you both: a geometric, working horse that fits in any point size and becomes a special and playful companion for display applications in the thicker cuts.

Arkit is a “constructivist” sans but beneath its geometric appearance lurk humanist undertones and an organic essence that can be felt rather than seen—as for instance in the slightly tapered strokes. Arkit has a big x-height and is suitable for signage and many display applications. It also performs well as a book face, in body copy, captions and with texts at small sizes too. The complete family features ten styles from the extremely light Hairline to the extremely heavy Bomb.

Arkit

Foundry: CAST
Designer: Erasmo Ciufo
Release: December 2019
Format: OTF, TTF, Webfont (Variable Font will follow within 2020)
Weights: Hairline, Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Heavy, Bomb
Price: single weight 40.– € / family 320.– €
Purchase Arkit at Myfonts, Fontstand and c-a-s-t.com

The Assembled Human

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With The Assembled Human the Museum Folkwang inquires into the ambivalent relationship between humans and machines. It’s a conflicted relationship, fluctuating between utopia and nightmare, and it still influences our present time. From the conveyor belt to cybernetics to today’s digital revolution, the show traces the transformation of technology, presenting a wide panorama of artistic visual worlds: human beings as hybrid creatures, blended with the machines and technology they have made. Featuring a number of essays, this extensive catalog goes in-depth into this highly current issue.

The Assembled Human is the accompanying catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Museum Folkwang. The catalog was designed by Verena Gerlach, using the typefaces Nielot by Laïc: Type Foundry, a plain, geometrical typeface, inspired by posters created by designers representing Russian Constructivism and IBM Plex Sans, by Bold Monday.

The exhibition will take place in Essen, Germany, from November 8th, 2019 until March 15th, 2020.

Artists:
Walter Heinz Allner, Bettina von Arnim, Gerd Arntz, Ed Atkins, Giacomo Balla, Joachim Bandau, Lenora de Barros, Willi Baumeister, Thomas Bayrle, Rudolf Belling, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Renato Bertelli, Umberto Boccioni, Wilhelm Braune, John Cage, Helen Chadwick, Computer Technique Group (CTG), Charles A. Csuri, Mariechen Danz, Fortunato Depero, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Charles & Ray Eames, Max Ernst, Alexandra Exter, Öyvind Fahlström, Harun Farocki, William Allan Fetter, Otto Fischer, Herbert W. Franke, Carl Grossberg, George Grosz, Richard Hamilton, Barbara Hammer, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eva Hesse, Lewis Wickes Hine, Heinrich Hoerle, Rebecca Horn, Vilmos Huszár, Boris Ignatowitsch, Fritz Kahn, Wassily Kandinsky, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Friedrich Kiesler, Konrad Klapheck, Jürgen Klauke, Paul Klee, Heinrich Kley, Josh Kline, Iwan Kljun, Gustavs Klucis, Alexander Kluge, Kiki Kogelnik, Germaine Krull, Boris Kudojarow, Helmuth Kurth, Jürgen van Kranenbrock, Maria Lassnig, Fernand Léger, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Roy Lichtenstein, El Lissitzky, Hilary Lloyd, Goshka Macuga, René Magritte, Kasimir Malewitsch, Man Ray, Étienne-Jules Marey, Rémy Markowitsch, Caroline Mesquita, László Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Molzahn, Alexei Morgunow, Martin Munkácsi, Eadweard Muybridge, Otto Neurath, Katja Novitskova, ORLAN, Tony Oursler, Trevor Paglen, Nam June Paik, Eduardo Paolozzi, Georgi Petrusow, Antoine Pevsner, Walter Pichler, Jon Rafman, Robert Rauschenberg, Timm Rautert, Alexander Rodtschenko, Thomas Ruff, Walter Ruttmann, James Shaffer, Arkadi Schaichet, Xanti Schawinsky, Helmut Schenk, Oskar Schlemmer, Nicolas Schöffer, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Avery Singer, Stelarc, Friedemann von Stockhausen, Thayaht, Paul Thek, Jean Tinguely, Patrick Tresset, Anna Uddenberg, Andor Weininger, Erwin Wendt, Hugo von Werden, George Widener

The Assembled Human

Editor: Museum Folkwang, Essen
Texts: Sabine Breitwieser, Maren Butte, Nadine Engel, Anna Fricke, Antje Krause-Wahl, Olaf Möller, Bernd Stiegler, Lena Trüper, Nisaar Ulama
Design: Verena Gerlach
Formate: 21 × 27,5 cm
Volume: 384 pages
Paper: LuxoArt Samt 135 g/sm.
Workmanship: 334 colored illustrations, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0637-2
Price: 65,– Euro
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EIKE KÖNIG

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From January 8th until February 28th, 2020 the Heitsch Gallery presents neon-installations, paintings, and graphic editions by Eike König in the exhibition EIKE KÖNIG—THE PLEASURE OF EMPATHY. After the successful show at Context Art Miami in December, the award-winning graphic designer and founder of the Berlin creative collective HORT will be shown exclusively in Munich. His statements, which he transforms into images and text, reflect today’s digital society, which he examines aesthetically and constructively.

EIKE KÖNIG—THE PLEASURE OF EMPATHY

Where?
Jörg Heitsch Gallery
Reichenbachstr. 14
D–80469 München

When?
January 8th until February 28th, 2020
Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday 12 to 6 p.m.

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THE OPÉRA

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Those in search for the essence of humanity will discover beauty and ugliness, light and shadow on the way towards it. For the eighth time, THE OPÉRA sets out to present the human body as it was created or independently formed and shaped. In their diverse works, the numerous photographers from all over the world once more share the same curiosity to explore human emotions. All of them, some reluctant and observing, others delightedly engaged and orchestrated, act out the great spectacle that is human existence.

THE OPÉRA – Volume VIII

Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Editor: Matthias Straub
Texts: Matthias Straub
Design: Romano Dudas
Release: October 2019
Size: 24 × 31 cm
Pages: 220
Language: English
Workmanship: Gatefold Brochure, 126 colored and 68 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0629-7
Price: 45.– Euro
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In a world full of confusion and debates about human identity, one truth always remains: Human beings are bound to their bodies and only their spirit can transcend these boundaries. In this sense, THE OPÉRA Volume VII is once again a search for the constraints on human corporeality and how they can be overcome by means of fantasy and knowledge. The numerous photographs and portraits strive to provide viewers’ powers of imagination with inspiring impulses, in which the narrative of being human is given unconventional perspectives. Since, at the root of art, this truth fundamentally also retains its validity: People are interested in people.

Artists: Agnès Lenglet (France), Anna Ritsch (Austria), Dario Salamone (Italy), Eric Kellermann (Netherlands), Gonzalo G. Bénard (Portugal), Marius Budu (Denmark), Pola Esther (Poland), Julia SH (Sweden), Thomas Sing (Germany) and many others

THE OPÉRA – Volume VII

Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Editor: Matthias Straub
Texts: Matthias Straub
Design: Romano Dudas
Release: October 2018
Size: 24 × 31 cm
Pages: 208
Language: English
Workmanship: Gatefold Brochure, paper, 147 colored and 44 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-3-7356-0463-7
Price: 40.– Euro
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The magazine for classic and contemporary nude photography returns with a vibrant compilation of the most beautiful works from the field of the most intimate form of portrait photography. In selecting the works, it was important to the editor Matthias Straub to curate a bridge between the traditional approach to the human body and new, unusual perspectives. In the current edition, there are therefore both abstract works and also very classical nude studies. The familiar structuring of the magazine into the five acts of the opera, according to Gustav Freytag, guides viewers through the photos selected as a content-related leitmotiv.

THE OPÉRA – Volume VI

Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Editor: Matthias Straub
Texts: Matthias Straub
Design: Romano Dudas
Release: September 2017
Size: 24 × 31 cm
Pages: 208
Language: Englisch
Workmanship: Gatefold Brochure, bound, 151 colored and 28 b/w illustrations
ISBN 978-3-7356-0396-8
Price: 38.– Euro
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Grafier

Posted on by Alex Slobzheninov

Grafier is a variable serif typeface which was released in January 2019, published by Pangram Pangram foundry, founded by designer Mathieu Desjardins in 2016.

Grafier is a serif typeface that rethinks classic design in the digital era. The original source of inspiration was good old Baskerville, an English typeface from the 18th century. But Grafier went its own way and got some unique new features. The most obvious one is uncompromisingly straight serifs, which join inside the letters. This brutal linearity is also supported by distinctive flag-terminals, chopped shapes and squarish punctuation.

The family consists of ten styles: five weights from Regular to Black in two contrast variations. All the styles are also available as one variable font with two axes. Straight letter shapes makes Grafier a good pair for sans serif fonts. The typeface works perfectly in big and medium sizes; low-contrast styles are suitable for short texts as well. In such cases the readability can be improved by using stylistic alternatives that disconnect serifs.

Grafier

Type foundry: Pangram Pangram
Designers: Alexander Slobzheninov, Mathieu Desjardins
Release date: January 2019
10 styles: 5 weights × 2 contrasts
File formats: otf, ttf, web fonts, variable font
Test version available: Yes
Price per style: starting at $ 30 
Price full family + variable font: $ 250
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Daniel Sommer—People Of Rwanda

Posted on by Slanted editors

The journey continues. After we travelled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, together with Daniel Sommer in February 2019 and visited different artists, studios and workshops, there will be a solo exhibition of the outstanding photographer at Soda Munich: Daniel Sommer—People Of Rwanda. While the Slanted Special Issue—Rwanda is the result of this collaboration, Daniel Sommer now presents together with Canon Germany more photographs that focus on his personal experience with Rwanda. Carefully produced, printed on pieces of wood and cardboard, as you would find them in the streets of Kigali.

When?
January 11th, 2020, from 5 p.m.

Where?
Soda, Rumfordstr. 3, 80469 Munich

Origen México

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

This book originates from the most profound love of land and identity. Origen México is a convergence of talents, passions, thoughts, textures, flavours, creative forces, and unique sensibilities with an innate character, inherited from the indigenous cultures that have formed and illuminated Mexican culture.

Structured alphabetically, the book chronicles Mexico’s rich contribution through a curation of subjects ranging from Luis Barragán and Frida Kahlo to Voladores de Papantla and the invention of color television. Giving an overview reflective of the diversity of Mexico’s influence on the world, each subject has a written summary of its unique qualities and impact at large. Imagery and playful color weave throughout in a discovery of thoughtful randomness. The end of the book uses pink carbon copy paper and includes a timeline, offering secondary context to this atlas of illumination.

Origin México honours the inherent beauty of a country and gives immense gratitude to those who have moved us to see further and deeper. All funds from the sale of the book will go to Fundacion BECAR, a non-profit supporting and providing accessible education in Mexico.

The design and curation of Origen México has convinced us very much. The selection of carefully described objects, people and traditions gives a loving insight into this ancient culture and thus conveys knowledge in a subtle, easy to grasp way.

Origen México

Design: Blok Design
Author: Claudia Espinoza García
Editors: Paola González Vargas, Adriana Sánchez-Mejorada
Publisher: Paola González Vargas
Typeface: Inter RH by Robert Huber
Release: November 2019
Volume: 560 pages
Format: 17 × 24 × 4 cm
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-607-7896-60-9
Price: 70.– Euro
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Relaate

Posted on by Alex Slobzheninov

Relaate is a multi-genre type family by Alex Slobzheninov. It’s a bundle of fonts which share certain features while each of them is much more independent and unique than it might be expected from a type family.

Each member of the Relaate family is an individual: Elegant serif, brutal slab, and quirky tall grotesque. For now—the family might get new styles in future. All of the fonts treat the family characteristics in different ways which are natural for each genre. It’s easily visible by comparing such letters as a, e, t, f, r—and many others.

This approach gives the Relaate a wide range of use. The fonts are meant to be used together, independently, or in combinations with others. But Relaate is not a workhorse; actually quite the opposite—a specific type for specific projects. Obviously, its main use is headlines, posters, logotypes and other eye-catching display usages. Nevertheless, the Serif version can handle mid-sized body copy surprisingly well.

Relaate

Designer: Alex Slobzheninov
Foundry: Future Fonts
Release: November 2019
Prices: Slab & Grotesque: $ 20, Serif (3 widths/variable): $ 25, Family $ 60
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Contemporary Elderly

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Contemporary Elderly is a series of colorized photographs of older people shot by Louis De Belle in the streets of Milano. An insight into the status of senior citizens in modern times, through close-up crops on postures, clothing details and specific gestures, emphasized by the selective process of colorization—a method of manually adding color to a black-and-white photograph. The catalog, designed by Matteo Gualandris, was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition.

Contemporary Elderly

Photography: Louis De Belle
Designer: Matteo Gualandris
Text: Maud Marron-Wojewodzki
Release: October 3rd, 2019
Language: English / Italian
Format: 29 × 38 cm
Volume: 32 pages
Price: 15.– Euro
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West-Berlin Graphic-Design

Posted on by Optik Books

Together with his students at the Department of Design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, Jens Müller researched the history of West-Berlin graphic design. The posters of the Berlin International Filmfestival, the logo of the IFA, the iconic posters of the Sender Freies Berlin or the design system of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, which is still visible everywhere in the city today, are some of the best known examples.

The students met and interviewed numerous contemporary witnesses who reported on the history of many design classics. At the end of the 1970s, for example, young graphic designer Roland Matticzk simply drew the striking paw of the newly founded left-wing newspaper “Die Tageszeitung;” on a beer mat while having after work drinks in a Kreuzberg pub. While Erik Spiekermann and his team at MetaDesign had been working with BVG for years to establish a professional design system. A project that only came to fruition after the Berlin Wall came down and the transport systems of the east and west part of the city had to merge.

West-Berlin Grafik-Design documents in nine chapters the most exciting personalities and themes from the time of the Berlin Wall between 1961 and today. More than 500 different design works were collected for the book—in addition to iconic designs still in use today, the publication also shows numerous works that have fallen into oblivion. Many designers opened their archives for the first time: Volker Noth, the long-time designer of the Berlinale posters, is for example portrayed with much lesser-known works for the Schiller Theatre or the Europe Day. The designer duo Ott+Stein, responsible for the graphic design of local museums, present early works created right after their studies at the Hochschule für bildende Künste. A chronology of the city’s history integrated in the book cover provides the necessary context and information about the turbulent past of West Berlin, a city that no longer exists.

West-Berlin Graphic-Design

Author: Jens Müller
Design: Vista, Düsseldorf
Release: 2019
Volume: 152 pages
Illustrations: 500
Languages: English/German
Edition: 1,000 copies
Print: Offset, Brochure with poster cover
ISBN: 978-3-00-063546-5
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