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ON THE EDGES OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FROM A—Z—∞

On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z —∞ celebrates the past, present, and future of alternative Graphic Design by the hands and minds of a multidisciplinary and international Design community, their practices, and community-building experiences at A—Z Presents, the space for experimental graphic design based in Berlin.

Assuming the form of an “Index for alternative Graphic Design”, the book offers a comprehensive view of the wide range of activities performed by a multitude of graphic designers and visual artists from diverse backgrounds, ages, and career standings in the past six years. It also covers the continuity of the space, extended by how a group of international designers envision the future of the discipline of Graphic Design.

The first part, A—Z, features all the projects, workshops, exhibitions, talks, and a wide range of activities and events initiated by A—Z Presents. In alphabetical cross-referenced entries, with the contributions of designers such as Na Kim, Niklaus Troxler, The Rodina, to name just a few, as well as a myriad of related topics, from “Asemic Writing”, “Rebellion Riso Posters” to “Yellow Bench”, and over a hundred entries in between.

The second part, titled —∞, features 32 international designers, including April Greiman, Richard Niessen, Loraine Furter, etc., invited to envision the future of Graphic Design and how they could be enacted in a transdisciplinary space like A—Z Presents. The contributions range from reflections on the body in digital space and AI to interspecies relationships and language viewed through different scripts, among many others.

The richly illustrated publication is designed and conceptualized by A—Z Presents founder and curator Anja Lutz, who sees the book as a “meta-level for the continuous exploration of alternative thinking and practicing graphic design.” The book features an introduction by Jason Grant and a conversation between Freek Lomme and Anja Lutz.

Featured graphic designers and artists in the section A—Z:

Albert Coers, Alex Jordan, Anita Di Bianco, Andrea Tinnes, Andreas Koch, Claudia de la Torre, Florian Dombois, Inkahoots, Johannes Bergerhausen & Ilka Helmig, L.I.P Collective, Lucienne Roberts, Mark van Wageningen, Mindy Seu, Mirtha Dermisache, MMS, Na Kim, Niklaus Troxler, Patrick Thomas, Rebellion Riso Posters Collab, Sarah Boris, Teaching Design, The Rodina, Tine Melzer & Markus Kummer and many more designers participating in the collective projects and exhibitions.

Featured graphic designers and artists in the section —∞:

Aggie Toppins, April Greiman, Chris Campe, Christopher Sleboda & Kathleen Sleboda, Elliott Earls, Flávia Nalon & Fábio Prata, Golnar Kat-Rahmani, James Langdon, John Walters, Joseph Foo, Jordan Rita Seruya Awori, Julia Kahl, Katharina Nejdl, Kiyonori Muroga, Lena Weber, Loraine Furter, Luna Maurer, Madita Flohe, Mariko Takagi, Martí Guixé, Mushon, Prem Krishnamurthy, Rebeca Mendez, Richard Niessen, Sandra Doeller, Sandy Kaltenborn, Sara Kaaman, Silvia Sfligiotti, Silvio Lorusso, Siwar Kraitem, Tobias Röttger & Susanne Stahl, Ulrike Brückner & Bianca Herlo

Yearbook of Lettering #2

Building on the success of its acclaimed predecessor, Yearbook of Lettering #2 brings the global lettering scene to life like never before. From elegant calligraphy and expressive hand lettering to bold graffiti, street art, and dynamic 3D-lettering, this volume celebrates the creativity, diversity, and energy shaping contemporary lettering today.

The book is organized into clearly defined sections to showcase the full spectrum of contemporary lettering:

Ambassadors — in-depth interviews and works from leading figures such as “Tyrsa” Alexis Taïeb, Ying Chang, Ken Barber, Ruben Malayan, Tina Touli, Carmi Grau, Abdelrahman Barakat, and Dave Towers.

Artists — 90 outstanding artists from 31 countries, with generous space for their work spanning calligraphy, hand lettering, graffiti, street art, and 3D-lettering.

Findings — 216 selected works from Instagram, compactly presented to highlight the incredible diversity of today’s lettering community.

Index — comprehensive artist information from A to Z, including bios, style descriptions, materials used, and contact details.

Yearbook of Lettering #2 is both an inspirational showcase and a practical guide for designers, agencies, and lettering enthusiasts worldwide. Explore the stories, techniques, and personalities that make contemporary lettering such a dynamic and ever-evolving field.

TEATRIP JAPAN – Auf den Spuren des grünen Goldes

Please note: This is a pre-order only, the book gets shipped once published in November 2025.

TEATRIP JAPAN is an invitation to immerse in the fascinating world of Japanese green tea. In Japan, tea is much more than just a beverage—it is a living expression of culture. For centuries, the tea ceremony has been practiced in Zen temples—a meditative moment of silence, mindfulness, and deep respect that once brought not only monks, but even samurai a sense of inner peace.

The authors take readers on a captivating journey to the roots of this cultural tradition. Along the way, they meet tea farmers, merchants, and ceramic artists—individuals whose passion for tea began in childhood and continues to shape their lives. The book offers insights into the tea ceremony and the intricate hand-rolling technique known as temomi, all accompanied by atmospheric photography from the tea-growing regions of Kagoshima, Uji, and Shizuoka. Green tea enthusiasts will discover fascinating facts about different varieties, production methods, and preparation techniques.

Japanese green tea delights with its gentle sweetness and refreshingly fruity notes—a true sensory experience. TEATRIP JAPAN is a visual and cultural celebration—a heartfelt homage to an ancient tradition.

Available in German language only.

Kunst kleben. Washi Tape Art. Das Tutorial

You are familiar with Japanese washi tape in all its colours and patterns. You may already use it for journaling and scrapbooking – but this fantastic masking tape can do so much more: Natascha Fix and Jörg Bockow reveal the art of sticking.
In no time at all, tape and cutters become tools with which you can express your creativity and easily create impressive illustrations on paper, on the wall or on the window. Washi tape is made from plant fibres, is flexible and easy to remove. It is available in plain colours or patterns, geometric or floral designs, and is inexpensive. Creative work with these colourful tapes guarantees quick successes and is the ideal analogue counterpoint to an everyday life dominated by digital tools.

Love & Lightning—A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos

Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos is a thematically ordered, inconclusive collection of queer, feminist and queer-feminist manifestos. Girls Like Us Magazine and author Sarah van Binsbergen have composed a publication showcasing the different forms a manifesto might have, from classical, activist formats to more poetic, associative texts. The manifestos highlighted in this book cross borders, forms and disciplines, refuse binary logics, transcend our concepts of time and space and surpass the neoliberal logic.

Love & Lightning does not claim to be a complete anthology, but it rather aims to show the myriad of ways manifestos can be composed, and what their legacy until this day is. It presents manifestos from 1851 until now, divided into eleven chapters, introduced in their socio-historical and geographical contexts, with many from Asia, Africa, Latin-America. Not only does this publication give new insight in the style of the manifesto, it aims to emancipate the reader to propose their own revolution, whether big or small.

Contributors: Manifestos include: Ain’t I a Woman by Soujourner Truth; Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto; Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey; The Manukan Declaration of the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network; W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto; Fag Hags Fight Back!!!; Manifesto for Maintenance Art by Mierle Laderman-Ukeles; Dyke Manifesto from the Lesbian Avengers; Killjoy Manifesto by Sara Ahmed; Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks; The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto from Sandy Stone; Refugia! Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones by subRosa; Countersexual Manifesto from Paul B. Preciado; and many, many more. Partner: Girls Like Us Magazine

Platform Brutality—Closing Down Internet Toxicity

The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just a few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that social media no longer just distracts—it wounds. And yet, we stay.

Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible and indirect. Exclusion, which many do not immediately notice, happens deep inside the code and network architecture. The answer will not be pacification or regulation but the dismantling of the platform principle itself.

Platform Brutality not just offers critical analyses but also dives into alternatives. Topics range from the violent turn of the internet and techno-feudalism debates, to loneliness on social media, radical data critique, mythologies that surround the smart phone, dreaming in the computer age, offline romanticism to question how to leave the platforms, bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital.

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of many publications, translated into various languages. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA).

Slow Technology Reader—A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures

Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens. By turns artistic, speculative, and academic the contents here probe alternative potentials for the digital entities proliferating in our midst, by invoking variable pacings and temporalities of engagement; reflecting through tools and techniques that have endured the test of time; and looking to non-Western and more-than-human sources to inspire technological development.

This new volume in the Slow Reader series gestures toward a fuller spectrum of what technology is and can be, moving beyond the limited perspectives and legacy structures that dominate technological development today. It includes the rich insights and intelligences of feminist, queer, Indigenous, activist, and ecological practices—offering them as vibrant data points for shaping more just and generative futures. At a time when the digital reaches into nearly every facet of planetary existence, this book aims to disrupt and recalibrate how we think about and relate/live with technology, illuminating more expansive pathways forward.

Contributions: Paula Albuquerque, Kader Attia, Aïsta Bah, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Pac.me B.ru, Cláudio Bueno, Derrais Carter, Raven Chacon, Joana Chicau, Guy Cools, Laura Coombs, Siobhán K. Cronin, Will Daddario, Edwidge Danticat, Thierno Dia, Mamadou Taslim Diallo, Henriette Essami-Khaullot, Silvia Federici, Mariana Fernández Mora, Ella Finer, Jem Finer, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Dakin Hart, Faïza Hirach, Candice Hopkins, Christine Hvidt, Carol R. Kallend, Theun Karelse, Danel Khojayeva, Suzanne Kite, Fran Kourouma, Jaron Lanier, Jason Edward Lewis, Pia Lindman, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda, Pierre Marchand, Michael Marder, Nanako Nakajima, Florence Okoye, Marina Orlova, Jogi Panghaal, Moisés Patrício, Rory Pilgrim, Elisabeth (elieli) Raymond, Milady Renoir, Oscar Santillán, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Camila Sposati, Christel Stalpaert, Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, Carolyn F. Strauss, Foluke Taylor, Alberto Isifin Tchama, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Evelyn Wan, Halidou Wuandaougo, Arkadi Zaides, Joanne Zerdy, Martín Zícari

Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, Cultuurfonds

Grafikmagazin 05.25

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months. The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like “Corporate Publishing.” The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

The extensive “Showroom” section lets readers know other creatives and the stories behind design studios worldwide. The “Design and Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the “Production and Publishing” section, everything revolves around print. You will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports, and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.

Each cover is printed on a different paper, and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme more broadly or shares a fresh perspective on a unique design technique. The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents, and freelancers are bound and driven by the firm belief that print is not dead. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture and product design, Slanted #46 showcases outstanding projects that are shaping the cultural present and future of the region. Whether through progressive branding concepts, experimental approaches, or striking visual storytelling, this issue reflects the powerful creative energy flowing through Egypt. Slanted gives space to designers, illustrators, and artists from Cairo, other Egyptian cities, and abroad—highlighting their work and personal statements. In-depth essays and articles on cultural, social, and creative topics related to Cairo and Egypt round out the issue.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a compelling portrait of a design scene in motion—bold, diverse, and brimming with fresh perspectives. On our trip to Cairo, we conducted numerous interviews with people from the creative industries, which have been edited into the short film Cairo Unscripted—Exploring Cairo’s Past, Present, and Creative Future by design studio Ntsal. It is available for free on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

To mark the release of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we’re launching a special edition with five stunning photo prints by Markus Lange, as well as a striking hoodie collaboration with Reell and Negmedine Khaled—subscribe to Slanted and keep the creative journey going.

Arabic Scripts: Limited Hoodie + Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

On the occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we teamed up with fashion brand Reell and artist Negmedine Khaled to create a unique high-quality hoodie with a white silkscreen print presenting the beauty of the Arabic scripts. It is limited to only 100 pieces and is a real statement piece.

About the artist
Negmedine Khaled, born in 1996, is an accomplished Arab artist specializing in Arabic calligraphy. His exceptional talent in this art form stems from his deep passion and dedication to self-learning. From a young age, Negmedine showed a special interest in Arabic calligraphy, dedicating significant time to developing his skills independently, without formal academic training. Despite graduating from the Faculty of Commerce, his passion for calligraphy led him to make the bold decision to devote himself entirely to becoming a professional calligrapher—a pursuit that has become both his creative sanctuary and primary source of inspiration.

Slanted × Reell—A perfect fit!
Reell, a German-Dutch streetwear label, founded in 1997 with a simple idea, functional, well-designed pants—Reell has grown into a pan-European brand on a mission to innovate, deeply rooted in urban lifestyles. Far beyond being just a pants specialist, our backbone remains high-quality products at an honest price.

Green Village Factory, Solar Powered, Future-Focused
Sustainability isn’t a trend, it’s the foundation of how Reell works. Their tops are crafted at the Green Village Factory in northern Pakistan, a facility they built from the ground up to combine ethical production with environmental responsibility.
• 90% solar-powered, keeping the footprint low.
• Fair labor practices, workers live with their families, not in cramped city rentals.
• Built to last—every piece crafted for quality and longevity.

The hoodie is available in a unisex size of S–XL. To find the right size, please check Reell’s size chart online, the return is excluded for this product.

About Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo
Autumn/Winter 2025/26
Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a visual journey into the vibrant heart of Egypt’s creative scene. The dynamic design culture of Cairo—and beyond—reveals just how diverse, innovative, and powerful creative voices in Egypt are today. From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture and product design, Slanted #46 showcases outstanding projects that are shaping the cultural present and future of the region. Whether through progressive branding concepts, experimental approaches, or striking visual storytelling, this issue reflects the powerful creative energy flowing through Egypt. Slanted gives space to designers, illustrators, and artists from Cairo, other Egyptian cities, and abroad—highlighting their work and personal statements. Indepth essays and articles on cultural, social, and creative topics related to Cairo and Egypt round out the issue.

Limited Special Edition Cairo: Photo Prints + Slanted Magazine #46

On the occasion of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we are excited to present a special limited edition that includes a set of five exclusive photo prints. The images, created by Markus Lange, come from his series Tayara—The Kites That Flew Too High.

In Egyptian Arabic, tayara (طيّاّرة) means both airplane and kite. During the pandemic, these colorful kites soared high above Cairo’s rooftops—bringing joy, freedom, and a fleeting escape to children and families. Soon after, however, the Egyptian government banned them, citing accidents and even fears of “espionage.” Lange’s photographs capture this fragile interplay between freedom and restriction, transformation and control, playfulness and politics.

The photo prints are produced in high-quality offset on heavy paper, carefully crafted to preserve every detail and nuance of the images. Limited to only 200 sets, they are perfectly suited for framing—bringing a piece of Cairo’s poetic and turbulent rooftop skies into your home.

About Markus Lange

Markus Lange is a graphic designer, screen printer, photographer, and educator, living and working in Nuremberg. His work focuses on typography, poster design, editorial design, publishing, and documentary photography. Since 2014 he has collaborated with Lars Harmsen on the international screen print project Poster Rex, and in 2021 opened an experimental screen printing workshop in Carlazzo, Italy. Between 2018 and 2023 he taught graphic design at the German University in Cairo. Since September 2023 Markus Lange is Professor for Graphic Design in Nuremberg.
markuslange.co — @markus_lange

About Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo
Autumn/Winter 2025/26

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a visual journey into the vibrant heart of Egypt’s creative scene. The dynamic design culture of Cairo—and beyond—reveals just how diverse, innovative, and powerful creative voices in Egypt are today. From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture and product design, Slanted #46 showcases outstanding projects that are shaping the cultural present and future of the region. Whether through progressive branding concepts, experimental approaches, or striking visual storytelling, this issue reflects the powerful creative energy flowing through Egypt. Slanted gives space to designers, illustrators, and artists from Cairo, other Egyptian cities, and abroad—highlighting their work and personal statements. In-depth essays and articles on cultural, social, and creative topics related to Cairo and Egypt round out the issue. Get more info about the Cairo issue here.

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46 brings together the work of the winners of the latest TDC competition for typographic excellence from around the globe in communication design, lettering, and typeface design. For the past seventy years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the design community to achieve excellence in typography through annual competitions. This high-quality volume showcases the award-winning selection while redefining the boundaries of visual communication.

Curated by the Type Directors Club, this year’s selection features outstanding projects from 33 countries—including Germany, Japan, Georgia, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, Thailand, Ukraine, the United States, and many more. The result is a compelling display of creativity and global diversity in contemporary typography.

In the Judges’ Choices section, each juror highlights their favorite entry, accompanied by personal commentary and insightful statements from the designers—offering readers a deeper look into the passion and process behind the work.

The Young Ones TDC winners provide an exciting glimpse into the future of typography With their bold ideas and fresh energy, they inspire and challenge the status quo.

A carefully compiled index of the main typefaces used—complete with the names of their designers—makes this book not only a visual delight but also a valuable reference tool.

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46 is more than just a design annual—it’s a tribute to the power of type, the craft of design, and the global community that continues to shape and advance both.

45 Symbols—Clay to Code

Please note: This is a preorder only, the book gets shipped once published in January 2026.

How can research findings, personal experiences, and complex ideas be translated into a concise visual identity?

45 Symbols—Clay to Code explores how emerging artists and designers respond to this question: inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history—the 3,700-year-old, still undeciphered Phaistos Disc, embossed with 45 distinct symbols—they develop systematic approaches to visual language. Ranging from personal narratives to global issues, the featured works demonstrate how an original visual grammar can be constructed.

Over more than a decade, the internationally hosted design seminar series The Phaistos Project—Forty-five Symbols have evolved into a global community—driven by open calls, workshops, exhibitions, and risograph publications. This volume, 45 Symbols—Clay to Code, brings together over 2,000 symbols as the result of this collaborative endeavor. It stands not only as a living archive of research inquiries but also as a testament to collective experimentation, bold visions, and the expression of intercultural dialogue.

The contributions are organized into five thematic fields:

I. Traces of everyday life, material culture, and the domestic archive
II. Planetary surfaces, landscape as archive, and the ecological memory of the Anthropocene
III. Politics of language, symbols of protest, and collective transformation
IV. Cultural scripts, spiritual codes, and visual identity
V. Speculative alphabets, linguistic flux, and future archives

This book aims to both inspire and provide hands-on methods for developing skills in visual storytelling, documentation, and reflection practice that foster authentic, systematic, and distinctive personal outcomes.

Void.Reflections

This book celebrates the 10-year anniversary of VOID Studio, based in Oslo, Norway—an experimental design studio working at the intersection of art, design, technology, and informatics.

Carefully curated, Void.Reflections showcases a selection of VOID’s most compelling works, interwoven with a variety of visual and textual narratives. But rather than telling their story alone, VOID chose to open the conversation—inviting external perspectives and interpretations of their work. The result is a rich, multi-voiced reflection on the themes and questions emerging from VOID’s practice. Contributions include the poem Desperation Animation by Silje Linge Haaland, along with essays by Michael Hensel, Pernille Sandberg, Fredrik Høyer, Elise By Olsen, Einar Duenger Bøhn, Gaute Brochmann, and VOID themselves.

The design of the book echoes VOID’s unique aesthetic sensibility—capturing the ephemeral qualities, luminous events, and visual atmospheres that define their work. In that sense, this book is not just about VOID; it is VOID—an extension of the studio’s creative vision.

The Generative Mind. A New Approach to Creative Thinking

Artificial intelligence, automation and data–driven tools are rapidly transforming the creative landscape. As the role of design and communication evolves, true innovation isn’t found in mastering the endless stream of new tools or chasing the latest trends — it emerges when we craft authentic connections that hold meaning beyond fleeting technological shifts. The Generative Mind is an invitation to cut through the noise by embracing a transformative mindset that enables you to design dynamic brand narratives, interactive identities and flexible design systems.
Grounded in eight sharp, actionable principles, the author challenges you to think beyond static outcomes by stepping into the headspace of creating living, evolving and truly generative experiences.
A companion for makers in motion who want to unlock a more profound, co-creative and human-centered way to ideate, design and tell stories for a world that refuses to stand still.

The quick classification guide for typography. A handbook for designers

Typography is an essential part of visual communication design. The rapid changes brought about by digitalization also have a major impact on the type design process. Users need a solid knowledge base in order to deal with the seemingly unmanageable abundance of exciting and new fonts and to use them sensibly.
The quick classification guide for typography is a precise and inspiring guide for all those who want to understand and use typography in a focused and effective way, this volume provides both creative inspiration and a practical understanding. This is made possible in particular by a clear structural concept for classification into categories and subcategories. The authors present a selection of more than one hundred relevant typefaces, supplemented by historical background, user-relevant information and explanations of their special formal characteristics to make it easier to recognize the underlying formal principles.

Water Works—Ecosocial Design

Water is a central concern in the ecological and social issues that we are faced with, and technical solutions do not suffice. We need a radically diverse approach that stages and cultivates relations. Without promising grandiose schemes to save the environment, eco–social design fosters curiosity about the ways in which people draw on their experience and shared commitment to landscapes and ecologies.

Through a collection of essays and case studies, Water Works shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, Water Works allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures.

Critically blending knowledge derived from craft, art, science and ecology, these works ask: what are sensible ways to embrace and connect with water? Through wading, floating, testing and tasting, how can we generate more desirable eco–social relations? In facing large–scale engineering, climate change, privatization and other forms of water violence, these works are an invitation to design together with water as a site and medium for eco–social renewal.

Contributors: Mari Bastashevski, Janna Bystrykh, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Yi-Fei Chen, Ştefan Constantinescu, Carolina Domingue–Guzmán, Clemens Driessen, Shahnoor Hasan, Clara Sika Helbo, Ils Huygens, Mahmoud Khattab, Francesca Masoero, Coltrane McDowell, Mariana & Joana Pestana, Benedetta Pompili, Esha Shah, Mihnea Tănăsescu, Serina Tarkhanian, John Thackara, Daniela Tokashiki, Jennifer Veilleux, Henriëtte Waal, Ria Waal.

Interviews with: Jon Ardern (Superflux), Atelier LUMA, John van Boxel, Natsai Audrey Chieza (Faber Futures), Ahmed Salem Dabah, Julien Fargetton, Sylvain Hartenberg (OOZE Architects), Anab Jain (Superflux), Zairah Khan, Rebecca Lave, Mary Maggic, Kent O. Miller, Mirko Nikolić, Roric Paulman, Eva Pfannes (OOZE Architects), Qanat Collective, Marjetica Potrč, Rimini Protokoll, Fernando Felipe Pérez Riojas, Sandrine Rozier, Rutger Schrijer, Susan Schuppli, Moreno Schweikle, Veronika Sedlmair, Islam Shabana, Brynjar Sigurðarson, Billy Tiller, Heidi Vogels, Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), Thijs de Zeeuw.

Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, EFL Stichting, Cultuurfonds, Wageningen University & Research

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses—Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial research practices that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks. For some time now, numerous contemporary artists and curators have moved beyond the primacy of the visual in the experience of art exhibitions. The book discusses this shift by bringing together experimental exhibition-making, curatorial theory, art, design, and museum research, disability activism and crip theory. Its intent is to demonstrate resonances between curatorial theory and practice and between disability and crip art activism. While the latter is still often regarded as relevant for only small portions of visibly disabled people, in recent years neurodiversity and invisible disabilities have proven to be relevant for the sensory experiences of much larger parts of exhibition audiences.

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses shares famous and lesser-known examples of experimental exhibitions as well as of artistic practices linked to exhibitions. By mobilizing the senses of touch, smell, taste, and hearing, as well as applications of multimodal technologies and insights from neuroscience, these examples all explore abilities and possibilities of the complex and diverse sensory apparatus that is the human body.

Contributors: David Bobier, Luca M. Damiani, Stephanie Farmer & Hettie James, Eva Fotiadi, David Gissen & Georgina Kleege, Adi Hollander, Lilian Korner, Elke Krasny, Renata Pękowska, Caro Verbeek

Partner: Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), Breda, NL

Support: Mondriaan Fund, het Cultuurfonds, De Gijselaar-Hintzenfonds

Alphabetical Playground

Driven by a fascination with the alphabet as a vessel for unlimited visual concepts, systems and languages, Alphabetical Playground explores a wide range of themes concerning expression in text. It presents a series of graphic experiments that investigate and manipulate the building blocks of language. Beginning as a series of ongoing variable type experiments, unused project concepts and playful takes on existing letterform typologies, the book is an attempt to consolidate these varying ideas into a playful collection of Alphabets, a showcase of how far we can push the medium of type design and structure.

Ultimately—although it may not always be immediately apparent—everything on these pages is language. This work demonstrates how text allows us to embed our thoughts, beliefs and systems within it: a code within a code, a game within a game, a system within a system. It serves as a reminder of the alphabet’s enormous potential to transcend its fundamental purpose as a tool for communication and instead become a limitless space for creative expression.

Nigel Cottier’s new book of experimental type ideas is an investigation into how we can use the Alphabet as a container for countless graphic systems, conceptual ideas, and endless play.

With a foreword from Hamish Muir, Alphabetical Playground is Nigel Cottier’s second book on experimental type after Letterform Variations, released in 2021.

Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency

Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency is not a conventional book or practical guide. It is an interdisciplinary collection of conversations, reflections, and contributions that explore life in times of global crisis—what some call a “planetary emergency.” Its purpose is to share diverse perspectives on today’s ecological, social, and cultural challenges and to create space for deeper inquiry.

The contributors include experts and practitioners from fields such as science, art, activism, ecopsychology, and systems thinking. Among them are Nora Bateson (systems theory), Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (decolonial education), Rudi Putra (environmental protection in Indonesia), Brother Phap Linh (Buddhist practice), and many others.

Rather than offering simple answers, this book invites readers to reflect, pause, and engage with the complexity of our current moment. It serves as a companion and archive of thought—encouraging new relationships with ourselves, society, and the planet.

This publication is published with the kind support of Awe Exchange.

Typodarium 2026

Choosing the right font is an often underestimated component of visual composition. Readers are often unaware of type design. It communicates subliminally. And powerfully.

Good designers are therefore always on the lookout for new fonts that lend subtle expression to texts and secure them the highly competitive attention they deserve.

The Typodarium has established itself as a source of inspiration in the world of typography and is eagerly awaited each year by designers and agency creatives. Every Sunday, it surprises us with meta-trends: a hundred years after the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, it presents new modular fonts. What began as a formal aesthetic experiment by Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer is now experiencing a revival in the digital space of animated fonts and new geometric compositions.

A daily tear-off calendar with 365 fresh fonts by 330 designers from 39 countries.

Photodarium 2026

The popular classic Photodarium is now appearing for the 14th time and will delight us again in 2026 with an instant photo and a little story of our own. The high—quality tear-off calendar shows artistic and intimate snapshots of 365 well-known photographers and newcomers, professionals, and Polaroid fans from all over the world.

On the front of each calendar page there is an analog Polaroid photo, printed in its original size and finished with a special glossy finish that creates a real Polaroid feeling. On the back there is a small text with the often very personal story of the picture as well as information about the photographer and the Polaroid film used. And of course printed in the tried and tested quality and glued and bound by hand.

The Photodarium (formerly Poladarium) is a well-assorted gem and an eye—catcher for your desk, window sill, cake buffet, hat rack, shop window, bedside table … and of course the perfect Christmas present for all friends of analogue photography!

Type Specimen | Typo Emoji Poster | Hand Print Stamp Rough | A3 Riso Print

Typo-Poster “Typo Emoji Poster | Hand Print Stamp Rough” from TypoGraphicDesign as a Riso Poster in DIN A3.

Design: Typo Graphic Design ■ Manuel Viergutz
Typeface: Hand Print Stamp Rough
Size: 29,7 cm B × 42 cm H (DIN A3)
Paper: Metapaper, warmwhite, extra rough 175 g/m2 (uncoated paper FSC + PEFC, 100 % made from wind energy)
Colors: Eco-friendly risography with spot colors Purple & Fluorescent Orange from drucken3000 in Berlin

Colors on the screen may differ from the original.

Grafikmagazin 04.25

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months. The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like “Storytelling.” The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.