Film Festival Cologne

Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 2
It moves organically in nature. Its texture is familiar to us in a pleasant way. It breathes. Its surface is smooth and…

Call for Submissions Yearbook of Lettering 2023/24

Become Part of the First Edition
After six successful editions of the typeface compendium Yearbook of Type, we are now starting a new series of books dedicated to lettering:…

Make it Circular Challenge

By What Design Can Do
What if we could get to the root of the climate crisis, and make our lives not less but more fulfilling at…

FURE Magazine

The Future of Reading
People are reading, everywhere. There is more text in this world than ever before. Because humanity writes and reads more than ever…

Babyn Yar

Past, Present, Future
“These are, as of the date of publication, the 28,016 known names of those killed in Babyn Yar:” In the center of…

finding Forte

A Typographic Search for Traces
Forte, this lively and friendly typeface that everyone knows, has been used, misused, and overused for over six decades now, ever since…

Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper

By Jeremy Tankard
October’s Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper is designed and published by Jeremy Tankard Typography. Rockhopper plays with the idea of two typefaces in…

NaN Success

By NaN
NaN Success is the latest release by Jérémy Landes at Berlin-based label NaN. The three sub-families—Success Titling, Success Sans, and Success Text—all…

Forward Festival Berlin 2022—Recap

Forward Went Day and Night: 13 Hours of Non-stop Creativity
We were lucky enough to be invited to the Forward Festival Berlin 2022 and spend two inspiring days in Berlin from September…

Yearbook of Type #6 2022/23

Movie Edition
You know the scenario: You just want to find a fitting series or movie on your streaming platform—but you can’t find what…

Forward Festival Vienna 2022

Creative Exchange—Hosted by Stefan Sagmeister
From October 6th to 7th the Forward Festival Vienna 2022 takes place. Save your ticket now. For eight years now, the Forward…

German Design Awards 2023

Design as a Driver of Transformation—Go for Gold With Sustainable Communication
Whether in editorial, corporate, packaging, UX design, or branding—a well-designed product can be a carrier of the transformation process. If sustainability is…

The Nest—The CalArts Poster Archive Print

By Scott Massey
The Nest—The CalArts Poster Archive Print is a book, conceived and designed by Scott Massey, about process—the process of designing, and how…

Recap: Indiecon Festival 2022

It’s quite a long time ago that we personally were part of Indiecon, the Independent Publishing Festival in Hamburg. More than ever…

Slanted in Stockholm: Konst & Teknik

Slanted Magazine #39—Stockholm
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to…

Universal Thirst

Launch of Indic-Focused Font Library
The six-year-old design studio has unveiled a new website to mark the launch of the Universal Thirst font library, which specializes in…

Open Manifesto

An Anthology
Formist Editions is thrilled to release this curated anthology Open Manifesto of design writing, collected by Kevin Finn. “It’s opinionated, it’s inspiring,…

Walzstipendium

Journey for Hand Typesetting and Letterpress 2023
Der Verein für die Schwarze Kunst Dresden e.V. offers friends of artistic crafts the opportunity to learn the basics of black art…

Tragic Grotesk

By Character Type
Tragic Grotesk is not neutral: On the contrary, it attempts to negotiate a mediating act between warmth and humanity on the one…

INDEX—Issue #2

Free
INDEX—Issue #2 is a printed journal made through a continual remix from a shared pool of writing, photography, and drawings drawn from…

Fit Devanagari

By Mota Italic
Fit Devanagari is Kimya Gandhi’s extension of the original Fit typeface. This Indic companion has taken Fit’s strict rules of construction, flipped…

Slanted in Stockholm: Payman Hazheer

Slanted Magazine #39—Stockholm
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to…

Indiecon 2022—Independent Publishing Festival

Repetition is not a Repeat
For the ninth time, Indiecon 2022—Independent Publishing Festival opens its doors from September 2nd to 4th for visitors. This year the festival…

Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier.

Start a Business and Build a Life You Love
Work as we know it is changing. Even before Covid-19, the days when we’re held accountable to a nine-to-five office job were…