Miss Read 2019

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From today on, the Berlin Art Book Festival Miss Read 2019 is taking place until May 5th, 2019 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, and will bring together about 300+ exhibi­tors. Throughout the weekend, a wide selection of international publishers, art periodicals, artists and authors will be featured.

With this year’s special focus on Scandinavian publishers, Miss Read will be composed of a series of ­lectures, discussions and book launches with the common mission of exploring the boundaries of contemporary pub­lish­ing and the possibilities of the book.

In conjunction, the seventh Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. With Alice Cannava, Natalie Czech, Alex Hamburger, Karl Holmqvist, Bernadette O’Toole, Eugene Ostashevsky, Cia Rinne and Paul Stephen.

When?
May 3rd to 5th, 2019

Where? 
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Germany

Typeface of the Month: Heldane

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“Like the Neanderthal face, Heldane is a hybrid, a bastard, a fabrication. I vultured my way through history picking the bones from old fonts I like to make something new. I hesitate to call it original, but it is new. But only in a strict temporal sense—that is, this exact typeface hasn’t existed before.” (Kris Sowersby, Heldane Design Information)

Kris Sowersby, the designer of Heldane, a contemporary serif family, was inspired by the Renaissance works of Hendrik van den Keere, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon and Simon de Colines. Rather than emulating a specific font, Heldane amalgamates the best details from these sources into a cohesive whole. The characteristics of this typeface date back five centuries to its origins, but the new combination creates a typeface whose clarity and tranquillity remains interesting for future generations. The classical typographic foundations of Heldane are refined with rigorous digital drawing.

Over a decade in development, Heldane comes in two families: Heldane Display and Heldane Text. The fine detail and tight spacing of Heldane Display is best expressed at large sizes. Heldane Text thrives at smaller sizes, taking stylistic cues from the display cuts, but with an additional focus on optical functionality.

Read more about the development of Heldane on Klim’s site.

You can also see, test and download free trial fonts for Heldane Display and Heldane Text.

Heldane

Foundry: Klim Type Foundry
Designer: Kris Sowersby
Release: November 2018
Format: Desktop, Web, App
Weights: Regular & Italic, Medium & Italic, Bold & Italic for Heldane Text and Heldane Display
Price: from 50.– USD

Unleash your creativity: 65% discount for students, pupils and apprentices

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Chantal is a freelance illustrator from Stockholm who uses a wonderful mixture of elaborate graphic and painted elements for her pictures. In addition to her work as a graphic designer for video games, she develops her own visions and ideas in personal projects. In 2018, she gained attention through her “Song of the harpy” series.

Chantal expresses her creativity using the Creative Cloud apps. You too can create your own fantastic illustrations with Illustrator, Photoshop and many other applications from Creative Cloud.

Unleash your creativity and secure the 65% discount for students, pupils and apprentices. Acquire the Adobe Creative Cloud programs for design, photography, video and web now for a special offer price.

Test Creative Cloud for free

Do you need inspiration? At Adobe Live you can watch Chantal develop her illustrations from the first idea to the final colouring using Creative Cloud apps.

Go to Chantal’s Adobe Live session

 

vom blättern und wischen

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From May 3rd to June 2nd, 2019 the book laboratory of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts present an exhibition of analogue and digital books by students from the design department.

The exhibition focuses on the examination of the medium book: How is the term analogue and digital defined in the context of book design?

Can analogue and digital books exist side by side and even work together, or are they in direct competition with each other? What demands does an analog book serve in comparison to the digital; what do they have in common, what are the differences? How do designers deal with the medium book in times of digitalization?

A total of 95 books will be shown. Both interactive books in the form of applications and classic analog books can be discovered. The visitors will be accompanied by decision questions, which on the one hand are aimed at the design process and on the other hand also serve as assistance. The books are presented to visitors in a way they can experience and can be felt, touched, browsed and scrolled.

vom blättern und wischen

When? 
May 3rd, 2019 to June 2nd, 2019

Vernissage:
May 3rd, 2019
8 p.m.

Where?
Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Sunderweg 1
44147 Dortmund

More information here.

 

The Future of Typography

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Technical and cultural processes always reflected form and handling with typography. Besides other design disciplines and art, typography definitely is to be understood as a reference of history.

What does typography states about our time now? How is it changing under the influence of digitalization? The magazine series »The Future of Typography« deals with such questions and figures out an orientation in the ever-changing world of typography. The development and the role of typography—today and in the future—is discussed in nine interviews with different creatives.

Interviews:
Julia Kahl—Slanted
Christine Gertsch
Noël Leu—Grilli Type
Götz Gramlich
Niklaus Troxler
TypeMates
Niels Schrader
Hansje van Halem (English)
Daan Rietbergen und Bart Vollebregt – Studio Dumbar (English)

The Future of Typography

Editor and Design: Josephine Becker
Volume: 114 pages
Format: 18 × 24 cm
Workmanship: Stitch binding
Language: German / Englisch
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Slanted Shopping Thursday

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Today is a perfect day to browse across our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we present you three books of August Dreesbach Velag, which might be worth a look.

This volume of the series “Typotopografie” gives an insight into the cultural melting pot of the city. One learns something about the Lilangs, Shanghai style, emoticons and up-and-coming type designers. This special project could be realized in cooperation with Roman Wilhelm, part of the group “Shanghai-Flaneur.”
Typotopografie, 7: Shanghai at Slanted Shop, 80 pages, 19,5 × 29,5 cm, 14,80 €.

In Symbolwelt Bangladeschs, Yasmin Karim roams the populous country and encounters not only lavishly decorated rickshaws, but sometimes even a white bull, the mount of the god Shiva. Delicately illustrated and sensitively explained, it allows a glimpse into the kaleidoscope of unknown symbols of different peoples and religions in Bangladesh.
Symbolwelt Bangladeschs at Slanted Shop, 156 pages, 17,7 × 12,7 cm, 19,80 €.

One sans serif font for every year, that makes twenty-one (20+1) fonts! A book for all those who use sans serif fonts every day, who are perhaps still searching for the right one and who have always wanted to lose themselves in the small, fine, but decisive differences, but also to find them again.
20+1. Ein Vergleich von ausgewählten serifenlosen Schriften der letzten zwanzig Jahre at Slanted Shop, 144 pages, 21 × 30 cm, 18,00 €.

Avengers Endgame

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The Endgame is near. With less than a week until its release, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame managed to create a real hype around this latest. Lots of conspiration theories regarding who survives and who doesn’t fill the Internet. The tension grows bigger day by while, while our patience drops bit by bit. Who will survive this war? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Before finding ourselves inside the theater, stocked with enough popcorn and fizzy drinks to last us three whole hours, eager to see what’s going to happen to our favorite superheroes, let’s find out a few things about WhatFontIs. Whether you plan on making yourself a nice t-shirt with your favorite superhero or to create some posts showing your enthusiasm regarding the movie, WhatFontIs will come in handy. This font identifying tool will help you find out the names of pretty much all the fonts you were wondering about. Since 2010, WhatFontIs’s catalogue expanded significantly, currently hitting approximately 500k available fonts, some designated for personal use, some for commercial use, all of them ready to be discovered and used by your creative mind.

How does it work?
You’ll learn to use WhatFontIs in the blink of an eye. We’ll break it down to you into four simple steps and, because we’re as eager to see Endgame as you are, we’ll exemplify it on the font used for the Avengers movie series.

Step #1:
To begin with, in order to find out the name of this font, we’ll need to get a hang of it. One short Google search later, after you’ve saved the image in your computer, you can sit back and let the fun begin.

Step #2:
Now, open a new tab in your browser and type in whatfontis.com. All you have to do here is to upload the picture you just saved by clicking the BROWSE button. Now click on FIND THE FONT while we’re moving forward to the third step.

Step #3:
Now, you’ll have to write underneath each character the letter it represents. You’ll find designated text boxes under each character.

Step #4:
And finally, click on continue and check out the results. You can now scroll through lots and lots of fonts and choose the one that matches the best with the original one. Our best match was sitting on the 28th position.

Now, let’s find out the font names for the other superhero movies that joined the Avengers in their battle against Thanos.

Iron Man
We all love his humor. The Avengers wouldn’t be the same without Tony Starks. Just like the movie poster wouldn’t be as cool as now without the Stark font.

Spider Man
Mentored closely by Tony Stark, Peter Parker is trying to live a normal, teenager life. Somehow, villains always get in the way. His last scene from Infinity War made us all shed a tear. Wondering about the Spiderman font? Check it out here.

Thor
Literally and figuratively speaking, Thor is God. After he got himself kicked out of Asgard by his father Odin, he found himself drawn to join the Avengers in their battle against the bad guys. Check out the Thor Ragnarok font over here.

Captain America
Steve Rogers, the rejected military soldier we all know today as Captain America, is one of the few superheroes that’s still standing. Will he avenge his team-mates which were vanished away by Thanos and its infinity stones? While thinking about this, take a look at the Captain America font.

Guardians of the Galaxy
They all join the Avengers in their battle against Thanos. Sadly, by the end of Infinity War, the only guardian that’s still standing is Rocket. While weeping because we reminded you of the terrible losses of the previous movie, check out the Guardians of the Galaxy font.

Doctor Strange
Rumor has it Doctor Strange will resurrect in Endgame. Or, at least, time travel sometimes during the plot and help his team mates win the war. We’re so curious to see if this is true or not. Meanwhile, we traveled through the Internet and came across the Imperator font. Looks familiar, right?

Black Panther
Wakanda forever, right? One thing is sure: the Black Panther will rise again in Endgame, lots of critics assuming that somehow Thanos’ action of vanishing half of the universe will be averted or undone. After reading the whole lot of conspiration theories you can find online, take a quick look at the Black Panther font. Look extremely awesome and badass, right? Just like T’Challa.

Keep using WhatFontIs
Whether you’ll need it for work or for your leisure time activities, WhatFontIs is always a good idea. Besides the basic free account, you also have the possibility to purchase the Premium account, which will get you:
– Unlimited number of fonts identifications
– Unlimited access to over 500,000 fonts results
– Identify fonts by price
– Custom text preview
– Auto character recognition system
– Select sources for commercial fonts.

Besides all these cool features, going premium will give you the chance to live the WhatFontIs experience ad-free. All of this for only 29.90 $ per year.

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klang Bilder

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In the late 1950s, avant-garde musicians were exploring new ways of expressing their experimental compositions in writing. Searching for a universal language that would reach far beyond music, they no longer considered the traditional system of musical notation as sufficient. By progressing into electronic music, as well as by linking music and performance, they blurred the boundaries between different genres and inevitably changed the notation of music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, who was one of the leading pioneers in those days, used every conceivable form in order to give expression to his musical universe like no other. This publication, for the first time ever, provides insights into an aspect of his work that has been previously overlooked. It features drawings showing that Stockhausen developed a unique pictorial language for ideas which could not be expressed through music or words. The book includes sheets that explore performance practices or even present time specifications, different timbres, or dynamics in colors.

All works reflect Stockhausen’s determination to create the widest possible range of associations and mental images. By uniting writing, drawing, and music, a truly exceptional, autonomous body of work has evolved.

Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Editor: Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Format: 22,5 × 16,5 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Workmanship: Hardcover
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-86206-725-1
Price: € 32.–

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Forward Festival Zurich 2019

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The Forward Festival celebrates a small anniversary on the 15th of June at KOSMOS in Zurich. For five years now, the festival for creativity, design and communication has been taking place and has established itself as one of the top addresses in the European creative scene within this time. Every year around 1,000 visitors come to Zurich to celebrate with the most influential creative minds from all over the world. This year, you may look forward to the Facebooks Art Director Josh Higgins, the “godfather of grunge typography” David Carson, Major Lazor’s former Art Director Ferry Gouw and Wes Anderson confidante Annie Atkins.

When?
June, 15th, 2019

Where?
KOSMOS
Lagerstrasse 104,
8004 Zürich

More information here.

Interview with Itamar Daube

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In this series with illustrators from Tel Aviv we introduce you to the most exciting Israeli creative minds in graphic design, animation and illustration. We started with an interview with comic artist Rutu Modan. More will follow.

Itamar Daube is Creative Director at BabyFirst, an international television station for toddlers. He is also an illustrator and cartoonist with Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s leading liberal newspapers. He is also Head of Illustration and Animation in the Visual Communication Department at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Ramat Gan. We met during his lunch break at a street cafe in Tel Aviv, near the office of the TV channel where he works. He is in his early forties, married and has three children. He graduated from the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

You do so many different things. Let’s start by talking about your political cartoons.

It’s true. As an illustrator in Israel you have to do more than one thing and with three children you also have to earn money. As a political cartoonist I work for a printed newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, which is anti-Netanyahu, liberal, but not left. I think I was chosen for my style and animation background, the newspaper wants to be close to the new trends in illustration. I get my weekly briefing from the editor and journalist who writes the column. The deadlines are short, usually two to three hours. 15 minutes was the shortest deadline I had. Political portraits are the kind I like best.

You’re doing animation for an American television station. Would you imagine doing illustration in an international context?

I would like to have an international career. You don’t have to move abroad to do that. It’s easy to live here and work internationally, just like I do at BabyFirst, a Los Angeles-based television chain. The web makes a lot of things possible.

Which of the many things you do would you mind loosing?

I’m first an illustrator, then an animator and a designer. Teaching at Shenkar College forces me to explain what I do. It gives you a tremendous opportunity to structure what you do. And the students there are very attentive.

Tell us a little about the styles you like.

I watch a lot of cartoon productions from the 60s, the classic Pink Panther cartoons. The music of the time is also great. Charles “Making the simple complicated is normal; making the complicated simple, very simple, that’s creative.” That’s what I also try to do.

More about Itamar Daube:
itamardaube.com
instagram.com/itamardaube

Image sources: Maariv, Globes, Yedioth Ahronoth

Brandes Interactions, Drainting, Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer

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Today we would like to present three publications from the publishing house Herrmann Schmidt: Branded Interactions, Drainting and Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer.

Branded Interaction Design (BIxD)—the brand-compatible design of interactive applications—goes far beyond visual design. Digital touchpoints are integral components of current brand communication. The number and shape of these brand contact points is growing rapidly. To play on them coherently in the sense of the brand presents companies and agencies with new challenges. Complex user experience designs can only be created in a workflow that closely intermeshes conception, design and IT and integrates consistent prototyping and testing. This changes everyday agency life. And the job description of the designer. With their agency think moto, Katja Wenger and Marco Spies accompany well-known companies on their way through digital transformation.

Brandes Interactions

Author: Katja Wenger, Marco Spies
Design: Katrin Schacke
Volume: 360 pages with over 300 illustrations, diagrams, sample forms and pictograms
Format: 20 × 26,5 cm
Bookbinding: Thread-stitched stiff brochure
Workmanship: Printed throughout in three special colours, thread-stitched bright white stiff brochure with round back, two-colour screen printing, two-colour softouch cover, with three-sided turquoise-green leaf cut
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-907-4
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Drainting is what Felix Scheinberger calls the intuitive combination of painting and drawing. In this way he cancels the centuries-old separation between painting surfaces and drawing lines, which is now completely unnecessary, and combines the best of both worlds. As long as you were a child, you used the paint box to paint surfaces and pencils to draw details or lines. Intuitively and naturally.

Then one learned the difference between “drawing” and “painting” and with that the difficulties began. Where there are no outlines at all, it is necessary to find them abstractly. This means that you have to grasp everything with the first strokes: Proportion and perspective, contrast and texture, the big picture and the details. Because this rarely succeeds, frustration is inevitable. Painting and drawing become Drainting!

Drainting

Author: Felix Scheinberger
Format: 21 × 24 cm
Length: 160 pages
Workmanship: Thread-stitched half-linen tape
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-897-8
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In 17 “digestible” chapters Nicolas Uphaus guides you to the start and through a final check phase before jumping into independence. He even supports you with the actual foundation. The experienced guide through the mountain of documents, which you have to keep an overview of at this moment. Then he can start his everyday life. Here you lay the foundations for easy order or chaos that will eat you up sooner or later. If you create good structures here, you will later have time for what you actually want: to create!

Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer

Author: Nicolas Uphaus
Design and illustrations: Anna Lindner on a basic concept by Roland Stieger and Matthias Christ
Release date: October 2018
Format: 16,7 × 24 cm
Volume: 336 pages
Workmanship: Embossed half-linen tape with a wrapping paper cover made of Muscat recycling paper and punched handle register
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-892-3
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Vogl Creatives Box

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When we first became aware of the Vogl Creatives Box, we were particularly impressed by the high-quality workmanship and the idea behind the elaborate project: a printing company from near Munich that specialises in UV offset and has compiled a collection of individual stories about favourite design objects of renowned artists and creative minds in order to present its portfolio of products in an unusual way.

On each card, the Druckerei Vogl presents a design object and its personal significance for its owner. The stories are told by agencies, designers and artists. Each favourite piece is effectively staged by colourful still-life photographs, a selected finish or special materials. This gives the viewer a pictorial impression of the fascination that the various objects exert on their owners.

The box is conceived as a source of inspiration, it presents haptically impressive features, implementation possibilities and techniques that are the result of the pioneering and inventive spirit of the managing director Ralf Vogl.

The example of the presentation of a classic watch clearly shows that a new and unique experience can be conjured up on deep black Chromolux cardboard using white printing and bright LE UV offset inks. We also used this effect for the cover of our latest book publication TOTAL ARMAGEDDON – A Slanted Reader on Design, which was created in cooperation with Druckerei Vogl.

Another example proves that it is possible to print on hot foils and thus go beyond the limits of classical offset printing. Very few selected printers in Germany offer this process.

However, Vogl Creatives is much more than just a haptic compilation of the Druckerei Vogl’s portfolio. The box allows an exclusive and exciting look into the treasure troves and sources of inspiration of artists and well-known personalities, but also newcomers to the German design scene.

The sample collection of Vogl Creatives is growing and is constantly being expanded with new cards. Owners of the box receive the additions automatically and can also look forward to exciting stories from creative people about new design objects and exciting implementation examples in the future. The box has been available since January from Druckerei Vogl at www.vogl-creatives.de  or in the Slanted Shop.

Participants

Christoph Bäumler, Managing Director Agency KOPFBRAND Munich
David Benedek,creative multi-talent Munich
Stefan Bräutigam & Tim Rotermund, Managing Director Agency Bräutigam & Rotermund Hamburg
Hannah Brinkies, Designer and artist, Munich
Sandra Gramisci, Designer Munich
Andre Gröger, Owner of design studio i like birds Hamburg
Oliver Holy, CEO and owner of Classicon Munich
Tom Ising, Creative Director Agency HERBURG WEILAND Munich
Tom Jäger, Designer Munich
Susanne Mandl, Designer Landsberg am Lech
Stefan Rückerl, Owner agency StudioStrada Munich
Sabine Schmid, Owner of Schmid/Widmaier agency, Munich
Daniel Sommer, Photographer Munich
Frank Wagner, Managing Director hw.design + Publisher nomad Magazine Munich

Vogl Creatives Box

Project development, printing and production of the cards:: Druckerei Vogl GmbH & Co. KG
Development & production of the box: designplus GmbH
Concept & Design: Manuel Haugke
Technical-creative conception and material consulting: Katja Knahn
Photos: Vivi D’Angelo
Styling: Justyna Dembowski
Lithography: Matthias Griessel
Release date: Januar 2019
Scope: Box mit 15 Karten
Format: 17 × 24 × 4,8 cm
Price: € 39,–

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If you would like to get to know Vogl Creatives better, you can arrange a free, individual presentation date within the framework of an agency roadshow, at which Ralf Vogl can personally experience printed matter with all his senses and respond to the individual questions of the participants.

Making of

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Slanted Magazine #33—Prague is at the printer right now! Its red and blue cover shines as bright as the Moldau floating through the city of Prague. This exciting issue will be released in the end of May 2019 and can be preordered at a reduced price for € 15.– here. Thanks to our kind partners Holmen Paper for the inside paper, Iggesund Paperboard for the cover material and the Stober GmbH for the nice print. The magazine will surprise you with many interviews, studio visits, essays, illustrations and last but not least the newest and freshest typefaces. Check it out!

Slanted Magazine #33—Prague

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: May 2019
Volume: 256 pages
Format in cm (w × h × d): 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: Stober GmbH
Inside Paper: Holmen Paper
Cover Material: Iggesund Paperboard

Slanted Shopping Thursday

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Today is a perfect day to browse across our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we present you five Bauhaus books, which might be worth a look.

100 years ago, on April 1st, 1919, one of the most influential schools of arts and crafts was founded—the Bauhaus. Now, Lars Müller Publishers published the English editions of four volumes of the highly influential Bauhausbücher series (two of them will be available for the first time) and the facsimile edition of the bauhaus journal 1926-1931. The influential Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and László Moholy-Nagy, along with the artist Piet Mondrian, are the authors of these important testimonies.

With these publications, Lars Müller Publishers has initiated a wonderful project with the aim of re-exploring these original voices of the Bauhaus and investigating and passing them on with a view to future developments in art and society.

One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it’s time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the movement are heard.
bauhaus journal 1926-1931 at Slanted Shop, 412 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 70,– Euro.

Offered a position at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1923, László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) soon belonged to the inner circle of Bauhaus masters. When the school moved to Dessau, Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius began a fruitful collaboration as joint publishers of the Bauhausbücher series.
Painting, Photography, Film at Slanted Shop, 134 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 40,– Euro.

Although Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Mondrian, cofounder of the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, called for a strict reduction of visual language to orthogonal composition and primary colors, which met with great approval in Bauhaus circles.
New Design – Neoplasticism, Nieuwe Beelding at Slanted Shop, 68 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 30,– Euro.

When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1924, it was finally possible to publish the first of the Bauhausbücher that Walter Gropius (1883–1969) and Làszlò Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) had first conceived of in Weimar.
International Architecture at Slanted Shop, 108 pages 18 × 23 cm, 40,– Euro.

Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee (1879–1940) brought his expressive blend of color and line to the school—and, with the second volume in the Bauhausbücher series, beyond its walls.
Pedagogical Sketchbook at Slanted Shop, 56 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 30,– Euro.

Forward Festival Munich 2019

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The Forward Festival celebrates a small anniversary from 13 to 14 June at Alte Kongresshalle in Munich. For five years now, the festival for creativity, design and communication has been taking place and has established itself as one of the top addresses in the European creative scene within this time. Every year around 2,000 visitors come to Munich to celebrate with the most influential creative minds from all over the world. This year, you may look forward to the Facebooks Art Director Josh Higgins, the “godfather of grunge typography” David Carson, Major Lazor’s former Art Director Ferry Gouw, the renowned US advertising agency AKQA and the young creative agency Selam X.

When?
June, 13th to 14th, 2019

Where?
Alte Kongresshalle
Am Bavariapark 14
D-80339 München

More information here.

ALBERT

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“How to design science?” This essential question was the starting point in the process of creating a concept for the new print magazine of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. Can knowledge also have sex appeal and if so, how would it look like? By now the Einstein Foundation has published four issues of the Albert magazine. Each of them covers a different scientific area of study such as mathematics, natural sciences, ancient studies and the latest edition is dedicated to the topic of new departures.

Designer Fons Hickmann and art director Raúl Kokott collaborated on the conception and the design of the magazine and their creative efforts were widely acclaimed and recognized by designers and scholars alike. The Einstein Foundation Berlin has the following raison d’être: “Not only do we want to support cutting-edge scientific research, we also want to talk about it.” Fons Hickmann M23 was commissioned to take over the design of the magazine’s fourth issue dedicated to the topic of new departures; future editions will highlight other scientific fields of study and the ways they are being pursued in the Einstein Berlin headquarters.

ALBERT – Magazine for Science

Publisher: Einstein Foundation
Editors: Christian Martin, Mirco Lomoth
Agency: Fons Hickmann M23
Designer: Raúl Kokott
Art Director: Fons Hickmann
Size: 27 × 20 cm
Scope: 104 pages
Print: 5c offset

Astro

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Detail Type Foundry (detail) is the type design institute of Kamimura & Co., an independent design studio based in Japan. They create retail and custom fonts for companies, brands and projects.

Originally, detail has been started with the type design practices of Makoto Kamimura, graphic designer and founder of the studio. He has created visual identities for many different clients. They create the typefaces not only for many different designs but also for new cultures, seeing their unique typefaces as great assistants to build the brand’s identity.

Their new font Astro, published in 2018 and designed by Makoto Kamimura, is a calm, sophisticated and noiseless sans serif, described as a neo-humanist sans-serif. It combines humanist sans serif’s classical and elegant form with a minimal sequence of neo-grotesque sans-serif organized by the vertical lines. While the traditional sans-serif gives readers a heavy and mechanical impression, this typeface will create a smooth and ultramodern impression. Additionally, it has 20 weights to control visual gravity perfectly. So, letters will have the same impression on readers, no matter whether they are written on micro-ships or spaceships.

Astro

Type foundry: Detail Type foundry
Designer: Makoto Kamimura
Release: 2018
Styles: 4 Styles with 10 Weights, each with Slanteds 
file formats: OpenType CFF, Woff, Woff2
Price desktop license: USD$ 800.–
Price web license: USD$ 1,200.–  
only available as complete family set
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Walbaum Weekend

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The Walbaum weekends are a series of events organized by the Printmaking Museum “Pavillon-Presse” in Weimar. They combine the imparting of theoretical knowledge with workshops in the museum.

As part of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the 8th Walbaum Weekend from May 25th to 26th 2019 is dedicated to the essence and work of the Bauhaus—with a special focus on typography. The design school is known worldwide for a supposedly certain style. But what defines this style? Where do the typographic ideas and ideals really come from? How new were they and how and by whom could they be implemented?

The weekend begins on Saturday at 10 a.m. with a guided tour of the museum, followed by a lecture by Dr. des. Dan Reynolds on the subject of “Type design in grand ducal times.” Jay Rutherford talks about the “origins of the Bauhaus,” Ralf Herrmann about “Bauhaus types.” Finally, Dr. Julia Meer will talk about “New View of New Typography.”

A Bauhaus printing workshop will take place on Sunday from 09:30 a.m., registration for which is only possible until April 19th 2019 and will become binding once the minimum number of 20 participants has been reached. The participation fee amounts to 99,– Euro (and/or 80,– for association members and 45,– for students). A maximum of 30 persons can participate.

Sign in here.

Walbaum Weekend—100 Years of Bauhaus

When?
Lectures:
May 25th, 2019
from 10 a.m.
Bauhaus-letterpress-workshop:
May 26th, 2019
from 9:30 a.m.

Where?
Druckgrafisches Museum
Pavillon-Presse Weimar
Scherfgasse 5
99423 Weimar

ISType 2019

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This year ISType has an exciting list of presentations and workshops to announce revolving around this edition’s theme: axis. It is taking place in Istanbul from 14th – 16th June 2019. Sixteen inspiring designers from around the globe are invited to discuss the organizing principles they employ in the formation of their type and letter design processes. What are the axes of their type design and research methodologies? Following the two-day conference presentations, there will be a full day of three workshops held on the topics of calligraphy, lettering, and type design.

Speaker this year are: Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, Cem Eskinazi, Naïma Ben Ayed, Frederik Berlaen, Dave Crossland, Jeremy Mickel, Aleksandra Samulenkova, Peter Biľak, Sahar Afshar, Taner Ardalı, Borna Izadpanah, Marina Chaccur, Radek Sidun, Jacob Petersen and Just Van Rossum.

ISType 2019—axis

When?
June 14th to 16th, 2019

Where?
Salz Galata
Bankalar Caddesi, Nr.:11
Karaköy, 34420
İstanbul
Turkey

Early Bird Prices (until May 26th, 2019)
Student: 25,– Euro
Professional: 50,– Euro
Regular Prices (after May 26th, 2019)
Student: 40,– Euro
Professional: 70,– Euro

For further information and tickets visit: www.istype.com

Let your creativity grow: 40% discount now available on Creative Cloud extended until 19.04.2019

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Creativity is an oasis—Adobe Creative Cloud offers all tools, apps and features to transform ideas into unique designs. Try it out and increase your productivity: until 19.04.2019, you can get Creative Cloud for just € 35.69 (incl. VAT) instead of € 59.49 per month.

What does such an oasis for designers look like? The artist Nadine Kolodziey is one of this year’s Creative Residents at Adobe. In her artwork from the “garden of creativity”, she shows the magic behind Creative Cloud. Nadine calls this her “magical power.” She says: “I can create trees and design clouds; I can overcome time and space and work on a file with friends from all over the world at the same time.” This allows creativity to grow.

Nadine sees herself as an interface between analogue and digital design. For her “garden of creativity” she cuts shapes out of foil to melt them down again in the next step, then she photographs them and refines them in Illustrator CC with the new freehand function. Via the CC library, the visual item is exported to Adobe After Effects CC where it is animated. The final editing and adding of sound effects and music is done in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This hybrid way of working gives her design a special look.

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And what does your garden of creativity look like? Ensure you get your Adobe Creative Cloud for just € 35.69 (incl. VAT) instead of € 59.49 per month between 05.04.2019 and 19.04.2019.

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Slanted Shopping Thursday

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Today is a perfect day to browse across our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we present you two magazines and two books, which might be worth a look.

In the new Reportagen Magazine, the best authors around the globe have been sent to find the best stories for you. In this issue you will find, for example, Margherita Bettoni’s reports “Liebe mich oder stirb. Fast jeden dritten Tag tätet in Italien ein Mann seine Partnerin” and Alexander Krützfeldt “Noch einmal ans Meer. Ein Mann erfüllt Menschen, die bald sterben, ihre letzten Wünsche.”
Reportagen #45 at Slanted Shop, 128 pages, 16,5 × 23 cm, 15,00 €.

In Upstart must a business idea not only be ingenious, but also look good. Whether social business, tech start-ups or the barber around the corner—young entrepreneurs know that what counts these days is how they communicate their brand to the outside world. Their tailor-made solutions and their overall appearance testify to their creative attitude and attention to detail—from business cards to interior design and digital applications.
Upstart at Slanted Shop, 256 pages, 24 × 28 cm, 39,90 €.

LOST is a magazine about self-discovery through travel. It is a magazine that contains real stories, personal reflections and epiphanies from people all over the world. It believes that travel is not about fancy hotels or destinations, but about immersing yourself in a completely strange place to feel extremely uncomfortable, so you can learn from it. She believes that travelling is a state of mind. Issue Five contains 10 personal travelogues.
LOST Magazin at Slanted Shop, 268 pages, 17,5 × 24 cm, 25,00 €.

In Pixel, Patch und Pattern two worlds meet: the vibrating coolness of digital typography and the decelerating craft of knitting. Rüdiger Schlömer takes you step by step into the world of letter knitting. With pattern alphabets, for which he implements fonts by renowned type designers, Schlömer lays the foundation for your typographic expression with needle and yarn. Threads become lines and modules grid. Typographic knitting is not a new handicraft trend, but a graphic approach to a handicraft technique that in most of us has a sleeping beauty sleep, from which we simply want to wake it up.
Pixel, Patch und Pattern at Slanted Shop, 216 pages, 17 × 23 cm, 29,80 €.

 

25th Typotage Leipzig

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The 25th Typotage Leipzig celebrate their 2019 anniversary: on Saturday, 11 May, the 25th edition of the conference will take place in the Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig. The theme chosen was “Typography and Zeitgeist.” That couldn’t be more fitting, since 2019 will also put the spotlight on the Bauhaus, whose ideas still have a decisive influence on design today. Following on from this and above all with a view to contemporary events in font design, typography and graphic design, the Typotage 2019 will be devoted to a broad spectrum of topics.

A historical part concentrates on the 1920s and the effectiveness of the Bauhaus. Dr. Annette Ludwig (Gutenberg-Museum Mainz) and Andreas Weber (Stan Hema, Berlin, CI Development for bauhaus100) will give lectures on this topic. Afterwards, the lectures will be devoted to the zeitgeist of the present. Among the speakers will be font designer Inga Plönnigs (Berlin), interface designer Frank Rausch (Berlin) and Marc Schütz (Frankfurt/Main), who heads the future-oriented Institute for Font Design in Offenbach/Main. Daniel Klotz from Berliner Lettertypen is a border crosser on the typotage podium who transforms the zeitgeist of the handmade into the digital world using historical printing processes.

25th Typotage Leipzig

When?
May 11th, 2019

Where?
Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig
Germany

Additional events
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
7 p.m.
Typotable #1, Lectures on font design and typography
More informations here.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Letterpress—open workshop
More informations here. 

April 5th to 7th, 2019
European Days of Arts and Crafts
More informations here.

For further information and tickets visit: www.tixforgigs.com

Der blinde Fleck

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The design exhibition “Der blinde Fleck—Gestalterinnen am Bauhaus und heute” (The blind spot—designers at the Bauhaus and today) in the 100th anniversary year of the Bauhaus is dedicated to the appreciation of female design achievements between 1919 and 2019 in seven design areas at the Designhaus Darmstadt from April 6th, 2019 to May 26th, 2019: Industrial, furniture, textile and graphic design, photography and architecture.

Vernissage
April 5th, 2019
from 6 p.m.

When?
April 6th, 2019 until May 26th, 2019
Fridays, 4 to 7 p.m.
Saturdays + Sundays, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
free entrance

Where?
Designhaus Darmstadt
Eugen-Bracht-Weg
664287 Darmstadt

Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures

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A—Z is a new space in Berlin for experimental graphic design. For the opening this new exhibition-spot will host the exhibition “Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures.” It is a visual research project and the personal design library of Andrea Tinnes, Professor of Typography at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. The title is programmatically chosen, because as a library, the “Library” encompasses the ongoing systematic collection, notation, documentation, selection, recording, archiving, processing, ordering, and cataloguing of a wide variety of visual, text-based, and linguistic materials.

In the “Shapes” section, the “Library” consists of two extensive writing systems, the Affiche Collection and the Allgemein Grotesk, two fonts that unite different letter forms in their character sets. It also includes numerous forms and symbols, from abstract-geometric to figurative-illustrative to organically deformed. The section “Structures” contains a multitude of serial structures, including analogue and digital textures as well as photographic images of everyday typography. These visual collections are supplemented by the section “Texts.” As a “text log,” it records extracts of everyday reading of newspapers, magazines, books or even short news in the social media, sorted by date. The exhibition at A—Z shows the current status of the “Library of Shapes, Texts and Structures” in the form of an extensive file collection and a multifaceted poster series, which combines a selection of library materials with different motifs and colors.

Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures

When?
April 11th, 2019
7 p.m.

Where?
A—Z
Torstr. 93
10119 Berlin