Artprint Rose | Risograph Print

Great flowers – great joy! Our beautiful rose as DIN A3 Artprint.
DIN A3 risograph print on 170g/qm rough paper.
Print sold unframed.

Jeremiah Chiu – Ou(te)r Space

Ou(te)r Space: Course as Collective Manifesto contains the work of 21 high school students that participated in the (virtual) Graphic Design section at Otis College of Art & Design’s Summer of Art in July of 2020. The month-long course, led by Jeremiah Chiu, was proposed to the students as a 4-part experimental and collaborative workshop—activating the remote classroom as a space for self-reflection, critical inquiry, and expression through experimentation.

The course was structured into four, week-long topics: A Portrait Through Objects (image-making), Establishing a Voice (typography), A New Vision (research and writing), and Self-Publishing (authorship). In the final week, students collaborated with Chiu to compile a final volume documenting the results of their month-long study—seen here in this book.

As the world we live in continues to change, so should the approach to educating, collaborating, and communicating with students and practitioners. The book serves as a starting point—an inspiration—for educators and students alike to engage, question, and evolve Graphic Design Pedagogy and Curriculum towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future.

From an educator’s perspective, it may seem obvious to teach as we have been taught. But too often, education is taught in binaries—right and wrong—and through biases—subjective “goodness” as a measure of quality. Beyond right and wrong, this book proposes that we re-establish the hierarchical balance between teacher and student, and that philosophical inquiry—ethical, political, and representational questioning—become integral to the practice of a contemporary designer. Instead of determining what is right or wrong, we may, alternatively, discover what is possible.

Airport Wayfinding

Airports are places with multi-layered identities that millions of people pass through and where cultures meet: On the one hand, the history and the design heritage of the particular country can be identified and local characteristics are intensified and reinforced almost stereotypically. On the other hand, airports represent hypermodern functional environments in which processes are internationally standardized and maximally efficient, with a strong emphasis on entertainment and consumption.
Guidance systems navigate people through airports. The graphic language creates an image in the viewer’s head carrying the respective identity in its own compact form through color, fonts, and pictograms. The authors, both specialists in the field, decipher this identity and trace its emergence and evolution over the decades. From the perspective of information design, they examine and analyze the wayfinding systems of approximately 100 airports by aligning their identities and functions in this book “Airport Wayfinding”.

We Love Pizza

Let’s be honest, who doesn’t like pizza? This book delivers the full box including all the different styles from Italy to America. From classic toppings to surprisingly strange combinations, “We Love Pizza” explores the diverse ways of eating a pizza, and introduces the pizzeria people who help bring our favorite food to the table.

First created in Naples, Italy, hundreds of years ago, pizza has grown to become a dish adored all over the world. Conquering the bellies of millions, “We Love Pizza” provides fun facts about this enduringly popular–and oh so tasty–classic. Did you know that in the United States alone every second, 350 slices are sold? Or that the Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada? Many cultures and countries have developed their own interpretations, and this colorful book looks at pizza from every angle.
“We Love Pizza” explains little pizza lovers how to make dough from scratch and uncover inspiration for toppings, all while tickling taste buds and inducing an appetite. Grab a slice of the action!

Elenia Beretta is an Italian illustrator living in Berlin. She studied Editorial Illustration in Milan and works for clients like Vogue, New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, or Elle magazine. She illustrated food books and children’s books for Rizzoli Editore and is one of the illustrators for the three volumes of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. After Tasty Treats this is her second book with Little Gestalten.

Schwein gehabt!

Can pigs swim? Why do piglets have milk teeth? And how did the wild pig become a domestic pig? “Schwein gehabt!” answers many questions about our favorite bristling animal: from the Danish protest pig to the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, from animal husbandry to pigs in mythology and astrology, from prominent pig owners to mating behavior: This engagingly illustrated book “Schwein gehabt!” introduces various breeds, reveals exciting and quirky facts about the species, and provides insight into the cultural history of the pig.

Daisy Bird grew up in the west of England on a farm surrounded by animals. After studying at Cambridge University, she moved to London, where she now lives and works. She is the author of non-fiction and children’s books about how people and animals live together. Her favorite breed of pig is the English Middle White.

Camilla Pintonato is a writer and illustrator from Venice. She studied illustration in Milan and was awarded a prize by the Goethe Institute, among others. In addition to her work on numerous children’s books, she spends a lot of time in her garden and with her cat Rosmarino.

Slanted Magazine #37—AI

Available as an ebook in bookstores and on all common platforms.

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has become—besides being an over-hyped buzzword across industries (that the design world is no exception to)—a reality. We debate about the impacts of A.I. and its subsets, machine and deep learning, and consider everything from virtual to augmented realities, and how these technologies may change our lives, jobs, and social relationships altogether. 

We live in times where decisions about what we want are no longer under our control. While we believe to be free (at least in our western world), algorithms dictate our lives, hopes, and dreams. We are the parents and children, gods and slaves of the technology we invented: although it’s a masterpiece, there is a great dependence. If “algorithms will liberate themselves entirely from us,” Peter Weibel proposes, dystopian science fictions may help us clarify what we desire and do not want. 

At Slanted, we are “hands on.” We love the human spark, provoke happy accidents (scratches and glitches), explore edges, and consistently enter unknown terrain. So yes, although this is a printed issue, it could very well have been transported to a neural chip. And we definitely figured out some ways to bring the issue to another dimension: A unique motif by CROSSLUCID has been printed for each cover of the entire edition—the aesthetics between portrait, still life, and expressionist topography, alien to our comprehension of what is human, natural, artificial, and digital.

More than ever this issue made us adventurers: looking with doubtful eyes at this new world of computation, numbers, and transhumanism, where (OMG!) machines are in many areas smarter than us and, occasionally, even encoded with higher ethical and moral standards than we will ever have.

Alongside the issue, a limited Special Edition has been released, a high-quality and 100% recycled bag by LOQI with a design by artist Sofia Crespo. 

The impact of Artificial Intelligence on design and how these technologies can change our lives in one comprehensive publication!

Slanted maintains a critical edge—both by addressing subjects such as AI in the first place, by adding written essays that provide insight, and then notes alongside each piece of work that help contextualize it.”
MAGCULTURE.COM, Jeremy Leslie

Awarded with Tokyo TDC Award.

Limited Special Edition A.I. / LOQI Bag

On the occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #37—AI a limited LOQI bag with an artwork by neural artist Sofia Crespo has been published. It is limited to 200 pieces and available exclusively in the Slanted Shop.

Neural Zoo

Neural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the recombination of known elements into novel ones. These images resemble nature, but it is an imagined nature that has been rearranged. Our visual cortex recognizes the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to.

Computer vision and machine learning could offer a bridge between us and a speculative “natures” that can only be accessed through high levels of parallel computation. Starting from the level of our known reality, we could ultimately be digitizing cognitive processes and utilizing them to feed new inputs into the biological world, which feeds back into a cycle. Routines in artificial neural networks become a tool for creation, one that allows for new experiences of the familiar.

Can art be reduced to the remapping of data absorbed through sensory processes?

Production: LOQI
Artist: Sofia Crespo

The bag is water resistant and made of polyester. Of course it is STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® certified.

Artprint Poster Birne | Risograph Art Print

Not only delicious and healthy – but also beautiful. Summer feelings put on paper.
Environmentally friendly risography print on the finest 170 g Munken paper with a high-quality feel.
Unframed

Brand New Brand

The current situation may feel uncertain and unsettling, but while the pandemic has posed new challenges for brands in nearly every industry, social distancing also means that our need to connect is stronger than ever. It is vital for businesses to create communities centered around their brands, and the pandemic may well act as an accelerator to put values into practice that have become increasingly important to customers, such as a call for greater diversity, more social responsibility, better ethics and a stronger focus on sustainability. More than ever, brands need to think holistically.
It is true, branding can help businesses break through the noise, build trust and recognition, but it is so much more than just a look or a logo. Branding is creating the emotional reaction a company can elicit from its customers by sharing meaningful moments with people to create empathy, respect, satisfaction and delight–this is when the relationship with the brand really begins.

“Brand New Brand” is a compendium of the best visual identities recently created for businesses from all over the world. It shows how well-considered, holistic branding can take a bakery, a solar panel installer, a gym that serves as an inclusive workout space for all body types, a Black-owned social and wellness clubhouse, a physiotherapist or even a waste management business that is using circular solutions, from one of a crowd to one in a million. It shows how, in an era of pandemics and political and economic instability, creative, innovative thinking is the greatest asset.
In-depth case studies explore the ideas currently shaping the field of branding, such as the use of traditional techniques or the reinterpretation of local visual languages. This expertly curated collection with a foreword by Astrid Stavro, an internationally-renowned graphic designer and partner at Pentagram’s London office, explains the context, the thinking, and the inspiration behind the design. As many of the projects in this book show, if you have a good idea that has been well crafted, so much can be achieved with even the most modest of budgets. Whatever the scope of the project, there is always space for surprise and innovation, a way to do things differently, and push things further.

Who invented this?

Many of the things surrounding us were once nothing more than an idea.Things that on first glance may seem small and common, like the jeans we’re wearing right now, Post-its, toothpaste or fizzy drinks, just as much as things such as the light bulb, tires, the microchip or plastic that have become an integral part of our everyday lives, as well as still others that appear to be invisible, but have undeniably changed the world we live in forever like frequency hopping that is the basis of modern technologies such as Bluetooth and WLAN, radioactivity, alternating current, which is the electricity that comes out of our plugs, or the ubiquitous world wide web.

These things that make up the fabric of our everyday lives, did not just appear out of nowhere, though, they were conceived by talented inventors, scientists, and engineers. Some are the result of teamwork, some of many years spent alone in a laboratory. Other inventions grew out of everyday situations and some were simply the result of chance. “Who Invented This?” is a fascinating trip back through history that shows how now famous scientists and inventors like Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla or Ada Lovelace, as well as lesser known, but no less creative minds such as Adi Dassler, the inventor of football boots, George Beauchamp, who developed the first electrically amplifiable guitar, or Louis Braille, who as a 16-year old came up with the idea of using dots to create a form of writing that blind people could read with their fingers, have turned their ideas into great inventions.

How they seized opportunities, had faith in their ideas, and the courage to try something new. At a time when the lack of trust in science appears to be growing and controversies about facts are on the rise, “Who Invented This?” aims to inspire creativity and spark the interest in science and engineering by connecting groundbreaking minds from the past with modern technology, culture, and medicine.

Making her children’s literature debut in “Who Invented This?,” German author Anne Ameri-Siemens is using her experience as a journalist to tell engaging stories about human development and the world around us. She previously worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung-Magazin, and German television networks.

Becky Thorns is the illustrator behind Little Gestalten’s acclaimed title The World of Whales that has been shortlisted for the World Illustration Award 2020. She graduated from Falmouth University with a Fine Art degree in 2015 and now specializes in children’s illustration, literary themed works, and calligraphic lettering.

 

Slanted ASCII Poster – Artificial Intelligence

On the occasion of Slanted Magazine #37—AI, Lars Harmsen designed a poster with a collage of ASCII quotes, inspired by the works of Douglas Coupland.

“ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).” Wikipedia

 

Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism) / the book

Can ‘Khan’ Oral’s book “Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” presents 84 digital prints of found internet imagery categorized in four thematic cabinets.
Logging onto a sex-dating page is like a promise, an overwhelming sea of imagery and data. Next to each other one finds fetish-addicts and ordinaries, “tops” and “bottoms,” “trannies” and “sissies.” Here, everybody can find a sweetheart. Digital flaneurism, an ongoing desire of searching and finding.
“Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” is a collection of found images from these virtual sex-dating pages that formulates a poetry of teasing. The images show particulars of the human, but the character or identity is obscured: A shape of a chest might count more than what’s written on a driver’s license. Nobody knows for sure which personality is hidden beyond the image: Is it a constructed identity or an authentic one, a bourgeois or a pervert?
Hierarchies of bodily forms, of beauty or nationality do not make the categories by which the collection is organized, but the various formal disguising, masking, blurring, or highlighting techniques that obliterate the notion of the natural and the real. Hiding is showing.
Khan is a professional in the fields of music, arts, and creative producing. Khan moves at the interface of the digital and the real. His creative way of expression is music, photography, and art itself. He is interested in new subcultural behaviors that result from our digital interaction and real life together. In his art, he overcomes this dichotomy.
“I’m interested in ideas, emotions, and bodily fluids.”
Khan has collaborated with Diamanda Galas, Julee Cruise, Kim Gordon, Brigitte Fontaine, Kid Congo Powers, J Mascis, Little Annie, Jon Spencer, Andre Williams, Jimi Tenor, Francoise Cactus, Alexander Kowalski, Dr. Walker, DJ Kaos, Rodion, Tiefschwarz, Adana Twins, Captain Comatose, International Pony, Air Liquide, Stereo Total, Terranova, Baba Zula, a.m.m.

“Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” is also available as box set (containing the book, a CD, and a DVD), published in a limited and numbered edition of 100.

Ursula Bogner – Sonne = Black Box (complete box set: book + CD) / Jan Jelinek

Since 2008, when the public first heard of Ursula Bogner’s work, many rumors have been circulating about her as a person. Bogner’s graphic work has been featured in exhibitions, and her compositions have been performed in public (by Mo Loschelder, Andrew Pekler, Kassian Troyer, Jan Jelinek, and others). “Sonne = Black Box” combines all these aspects as a CD-and-book release.
The CD, released on Jan Jelinek’s label Faitiche and compiled by Andrew Pekler, presents Bogner’s early voice and tape experiments–a hitherto unknown emotional side is revealed here through her singing.
The 126-page book accompanying the CD contains drawings, photos, and other curiosities documenting Bogner’s life, an introduction by Jan Jelinek, texts by Momus, Andrew Pekler, Tim Tetzner, Bettina Klein, and interviews with the orgone researcher Jürgen Fischer and the ethnologist Kiwi Menrath.
“Sonne = Black Box” attempts to culturally and historically situate the work of the sound explorer Ursula Bogner. Special emphasis is given to the phenomenon of fake: How did the suspicion of fake in Ursula Bogner’s case come about, and what is a post-fake? Answers can be found in the book.

The book is also available separately.

Can ‘Khan’ Oral – Angels of Disguise (complete box set: book, CD, DVD)

Can ‘Khan’ Oral’s box set “Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” has been published by Fantôme in a limited and numbered edition of 100 copies. It contains the book of the same name, the CD “Audiopornography”, and the DVD “Audio Porno Megamix (Come Into My Light).”
The book “Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” presents 84 digital prints of found internet imagery categorized in four thematic cabinets.
Logging onto a sex-dating page is like a promise, an overwhelming sea of imagery and data. Next to each other one finds fetish-addicts and ordinaries, “tops” and “bottoms,” “trannies” and “sissies.” Here, everybody can find a sweetheart. Digital flaneurism, an ongoing desire of searching and finding.
“Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” is a collection of found images from these virtual sex-dating pages that formulates a poetry of teasing. The images show particulars of the human, but the character or identity is obscured: A shape of a chest might count more than what’s written on a driver’s license. Nobody knows for sure which personality is hidden beyond the image: Is it a constructed identity or an authentic one, a bourgeois or a pervert?
Hierarchies of bodily forms, of beauty or nationality do not make the categories by which the collection is organized, but the various formal disguising, masking, blurring, or highlighting techniques that obliterate the notion of the natural and the real. Hiding is showing.
The DVD “Audio Porno Megamix (Come Into My Light)” contains a sound collage of found amateur audio from internet porn sites accompanied by video. The audio material is also featured, in alphabetical order, on the CD “Audiopornography.”
The investigation took its starting point with the question: Why is pornography mainly visual and rarely audio? The examination that followed ranged from professional and theatrically staged to nowadays predominant amateur porn videos, in which the visual and aural setting and the sexualized atmosphere has become as important as the actual sexual act itself.
The material for the “Audio Porno Megamix (Come Into My Light)” sound collage was collected during seemingly endless walks through cyberspace and in the same manner of flaneurism as in “Angels of Disguise.”
Video sex portals provide any fetishes and sounds imaginable. From outdoors to body sounds to electronic machinery or simply the next-door neighbours’ blaring television set. A major part of the sound mix are corrupted files, damaged by faulty up- or downloading or by improper use of recording equipment. Similar to the “Angels of Disguise” prints, the digital corruption becomes a mask that disguises or highlights the original document.
The “Audio Porno Megamix (Come Into My Light)” is accompanied by a silent and hardly moving short video recording of the moon, which digitally has been time stretched to a 42 minutes slow motion movement. The moon, earth’s face to face eternal companion, becomes a cosmic metaphor for the infinite and perpetual potentiality and quality of what man has created: the computer and the internet; the digital age as a symbol of a global and maybe even cosmic human interconnectedness?
Can ‘Khan’ Oral in his own words: “The idea for ‘Audio Porno Megamix’ started with a question: ‘Why is pornography mainly visual and rarely audio?’ I started looking for examples and only found some 60s flexi disc that was some kind of a phone-sex recording accompanied by a ye-ye lounge soundtrack. I came across ‘Porno for The Blind,’ a rather unexcited narration by someone watching porn, transcribing to the blind what he sees without using any porno slang nor much emotion. I’m not sure if that was just bad casting or on purpose. My next step was collecting audio off of pornographic video material I was looking up on the internet. I realized that the “old school theatrical actors porn” had almost been replaced by massive uploads of amateur video or that what pretends to be amateur. I found interesting that some clips are publicized mute, some original sound was replaced by music, most of the time Top-40, others were corrupted video up- or downloads, in and out of the internet, or simply malfunctioning recording equipment. My attention went towards video in which the erotic self-portrait managed without much moaning, growling, or talking. The room and the sexualized atmosphere became the main attraction. The street sounds, people next door, or the camera hum itself under my headphones opened a 3-dimensional room of showing and not showing, intimacy or in your face, corruption and innocence, a room in the room in the room, endless flaneurism.”

Khan is a professional in the fields of music, arts, and creative producing. Khan moves at the interface of the digital and the real.
His creative way of expression is music, photography, and art itself. He is interested in new subcultural behaviors that result from our digital interaction and real life together. In his art, he overcomes this dichotomy. “I’m interested in ideas, emotions, and bodily fluids.”
Khan has collaborated with Diamanda Galas, Julee Cruise, Kim Gordon, Brigitte Fontaine, Kid Congo Powers, J Mascis, Little Annie, Jon Spencer, Andre Williams, Jimi Tenor, Francoise Cactus, Alexander Kowalski, Dr. Walker, DJ Kaos, Rodion, Tiefschwarz, Adana Twins, Captain Comatose, International Pony, Air Liquide, Stereo Total, Terranova, Baba Zula, a.m.m.

The book “Angels of Disguise (The Abstract Aesthetics of Digital Flaneurism)” is also available separately.

Typographic Architectures

As a major figure in contemporary European graphic design, Wim Crouwel (1928-2019) has widely influenced the history of the discipline through his extensive practice of design, applied both to the cultural and commercial field. Over the course of his career, he has carried out simultaneously works in the range of typographic creation, visual identities, posters, book design, or scenography.

In the 1950s and for decades, Wim Crouwel, whose influence extends beyond borders of the Netherlands to a large extent, has managed to develop an approach to graphic design combining modernist heritage with pop fantasy.

Through two texts written by Catherine de Smet and Emmanuel Berard, and one by Wim Crouwel himself, this book testifies the diversity of his work and analyzes his wide range of production in diverse fields such as visual identities, publishing, or poster creation.

Abundantly illustrated, the book “Typographic architectures” focuses on the layout of the catalogues made for museums such as the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, as well as on the genesis and presentation of the New Alphabet, created between 1964 and 1967.

Louise Bristow – European Park

The catalog “European Park” is published on the occasion of Louise Bristow’s exhibition of the same name at Berlin’s Laura Mars Gallery.
Louise Bristow composes horizontal oil paintings based on self-made models as well as different pictorial sources. In trompe-l’œil-like table or stage settings, heterogeneous pictorial ‘personae’ come together: photographs and reproductions that function as stage sets in the background, as it were, patterned prints, and architectural models and imaginatively designed stereometric bodies. Scenic details of children’s playgrounds can often be recognized; the evocation of the sphere of carefree play is frequently juxtaposed with the motif of the working world of adults. In addition, there are cultural artifacts that have come down to us, ranging from prehistoric hand-axes to folkloristic-looking objects to postwar design, Soviet monumental sculpture, and modernist architecture.
In her visual worlds, Louise Bristow utilizes miniaturization in order to sharpen, by this quasi-inverted overwhelming gesture, the view of what constitutes contemporary society and culture at their core. Bristow’s paintings of stage sets examine the state of today’s seemingly pluralistic culture. The compilation of artifacts ‘neutralized’ in their disparate composition shows features of nostalgia and at the same time of alienation, because the different ‘actors’ appear on the same stage but are not sure if they do perform in the same play.

Astrid Busch – Le Havre. Brasilia. Mezamor. Wolfsburg

The catalog “Le Havre. Brasilia. Mezamor. Wolfsburg,” published by Fantôme, presents Astrid Busch’s artistic work, in which she deals with places and the experience of them. She examines architectural designs for their sensual perceptibility and their effect on people. The central object of investigation of her project is the treatment of space and architecture in four planned cities built between 1938 and 1969 with regard to the key design areas of light, sound, and material.
Taking these aspects into consideration, the artist examined the cities of Metsamor (Armenia), Le Havre (France), Brasilia (Brazil), and Wolfsburg (Germany). The aesthetic experiences generated from the interaction of all the senses are incorporated into the works and are then transferred into site-specific installations. Astrid Busch uses the means that can also be found at the respective locations, such as lighting conditions, soundscapes, and materiality. In this way, her installations thematize the respective character of a place, while at the same time themselves creating new places.
Whereas visiting Astrid Busch’s exhibitions allows the direct spatial experience to become sensually tangible through the use of a wide variety of materials and ephemeral interventions, the catalog “Le Havre. Brasilia. Mezamor. Wolfsburg” opens up other possibilities of perceiving her collages and pictorial compositions. The sequence of images draws the eye to characteristic features of the four planned cities and their atmospheric differences.

Astrid Busch studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, where she graduated as a master student of Prof. Katharina Grosse. She lives in Berlin and Düsseldorf.
Her works have been shown in national and international exhibitions. Astrid Busch has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York City, USA (2021), a cultural exchange stipend for Brazil of the federal state of Berlin (2020), a project scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW (2019), scholarships from the Association Fort! In Le Havre, France (2018) and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (2017), a work scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (2016), a residency scholarship from Kunstdepot Göschenen, Switzerland (2020), from Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, Germany (2021), and from La Forme Lieu d‘exposition Art Contemporain Architecture in Le Havre, France (2016), and a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems (2013).

Ursula Bogner – Sonne = Black Box (the book) / Jan Jelinek

The book “Sonne = Black Box,” published by Fantôme, attempts to culturally and historically situate the work of the sound explorer Ursula Bogner. Special emphasis is given to the phenomenon of fake: How did the suspicion of fake in Ursula Bogner’s case come about, and what is a post-fake? Answers can be found in this book.
Since 2008, when the public first heard of Ursula Bogner’s work, many rumors have been circulating about her as a person. Bogner’s graphic work has been featured in exhibitions (Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin 2009; CEACC, Strasbourg, France, 2011; xhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2013; etc.), and her compositions have been performed in public (by Mo Loschelder, Andrew Pekler, Kassian Troyer, Jan Jelinek, and others).
“Sonne = Black Box” contains drawings, photos, and other curiosities documenting Bogner’s life, an introduction by Jan Jelinek, texts by Momus, Andrew Pekler, Tim Tetzner, Bettina Klein, and interviews with the orgone researcher Jürgen Fischer and the ethnologist Kiwi Menrath.

“Sonne = Black Box” is also available as special-edition box set (containing the book and a CD).

Cloisterfck—House of Common Affairs #2

The House of Common Affairs (HOCA) is a new, smashing journal about the Fourth Estate Utopias. It provides an opportunity to challenge the niche and yet popular field that exists in the overlap between the arts and journalism. HOCA invites a more diverse range of voices into the conversation with the aim to promote an international and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, as well as knowledge. It seeks to offer a space for critical thinking with the aim of provoking further developments in this field.

The Fourth Estate Utopias is the first issue of HOCA, and as such addresses the project’s subtitle, “fancy discussions about Fourth Estate utopias,” and is about the role of visual communication in relation to journalism.

Yearbook of Type 2021 / 22

Grab one of the last copies!

It’s great to see that more people than ever understand how important typography is. The choice of a typeface and the design of a text can have a dramatic impact on its meaning. Typefaces don’t need words to convey a message. The responsibility for graphic designers in choosing the right typeface is therefore crucial. But how do you find the right typeface in the infinite universe of possibilities? The Yearbook of Type 2021 / 22 makes it easy to get an overview of recently published typefaces from around the world while understanding their visual language.

Each typeface and -family is presented on a double-page spread. On the left side, a specimen gives an idea of possible applications and shows the beauty and character of each typeface. This year’s theme is music. As music conveys emotions through melodies and lyrics, typography does so through its form and balance of letters. The right page provides detailed information about the designers and foundries, as well as an overview of the typefaces’ features.

The Yearbook of Type is complemented by a series of essays that offer background information about typography, history, technical details and how-to guides, and the latest trends in current type design. An index sorts typefaces by classifications, besides listing designers, foundries, and OpenType features. Last but not least, an online microsite presents all featured fonts, so that users can test or purchase them.

Feel inspired and listen to type, the soundtrack of our lives!

The highlights in short:

  • Detailed presentation of 192 recent typefaces
  • Extensive background information
  • Index of typeface classifications
  • Index of all 201 type designers and 105 foundries from 33 countries
  • Explanation of all OpenType features
  • Introduction by Veronika Burian
  • Essays and tutorials by Murat Çil, Matthieu Cortat, and Eva Kubinyi
  • Online microsite, linking the typefaces to the foundries’ websites

Presented type foundries: 205TF, 29Letters / 29LT, 3type, A2-TYPE, Abstract Office, AG Typography, AinsiFont, Alexander Slobzheninov, Antipixel Type Studio, APK Type, ATS Type, Atypical, Binnenland Type Foundry, Blaze Type, Bonez Designz, BrassFonts, Bureau Roffa, Bureau Sebastian Moock, bvhtype, Canada Type, Cape Arcona Type Foundry, CAST, Cinetype, Collletttivo, CSTM Fonts, Degarism Studio, DSType, Due Studio, ECAL Typefaces, Fabio Haag Type, Floodfonts, Fontador, FontPeople Ltd, Fontwerk, FSdesign, Gradient Type, Gurup Stüdyo, HvD Fonts, In-House International, Jeremy Tankard Typography, Julien Fincker, Kanon Foundry, Kimmy Design, Kontour, La Bolde Vita, Laïc: Type Foundry, Latinotype, Lazydogs Typefoundry, Leo Colalillo, Letter Palette Foundry, lo-ol type, Los Andes Type, Lukas Diemling, Lux Typographic + Design, make type not war!, Manuel von Gebhardi, Mark Simonson Studio, Mark van Leeuwen, Michal Tornyai, Morisawa, NEW LETTERS, Nootype, Nort, Nova Type Foundry, Occupant Fonts, P22 Type Foundry, Pangram Pangram, Paratype, Peggo Fonts, Petra Wöhrmann, PSY/OPS, R9 Type+Design, Sacha Rein, Sandoll Inc., Schriftlabor, Sharp Type Co., Six, Stan Hema, Studio Rene Bieder, Sudtipos, sugargliderz, Superior Type, Synthview Type Design, The Foundry Types, The Ivy Foundry, TipografiaRamis, Tipografies, TipoType, Tour de Force Font Foundry, Typedifferent, TypeMates, Typerotation, Typetanic Fonts, TypeTogether, TypeType, Typogama, Typografische, Underscore, Vetterle Kommunikationdesign, Wannatype, WELTKERN, WiseType, Zetafonts Foundry

Awarded with Type Directors Club New York.

Architekturführer. Bauhaus–Welterbe Bernau

Far away from the city and hustle and bustle, the national school of the General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB) was to provide its members with education, recreation and a modern way of life.

Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer planned the building with their students from the Bauhaus workshops. No other building project documents the scientific design with a socio-pedagogical approach at the Bauhaus under Hannes Meyer as vividly as the Bundesschule. At the same time, the desired unity of teaching and practice in construction was fulfilled here. In Bernau, the Bauhaus became an experimental laboratory on a large scale. It is these qualities that convinced the UNESCO Commission in 2017 to declare the building ensemble a World Heritage Site. But the use and associated extensions and conversions of today’s UNESCO World Heritage Site are also part of the now more than 90-year history of this impressive modernist building. Federal school, Reichsführer school, military hospital, trade union college, boarding school for apprentices–today’s Meyer-Wittwer Building has had several functions since its opening in 1930.

The book ‘Architekturführer. Bauhaus–Welterbe Bernau’ offers insights into the eventful history of the construction and use of the former Bundesschule and accompanies visitors on their tour of the Bauhaus Campus Bernau.

Cercle Magazine #9 – Flowers

Insects are attracted to flowers because of their shape, color and smell. They gather pollen and then move it away from the reproductive organ. Beyond this evolutionary pattern, flowers fascinate another species: humankind.
Elevated to the rank of muse by science and the arts, they were dissected over the years, petal by petal, and remain an infinite subject for poets, researchers and lovers. Their beauty is only matched by their ephemerality, mankind continues to explore, categorise, preserve and reproduce the flower, or rather flowers. Because they express themselves in their diversity. Both as a universal language, symbol of revolts and passions or cautious diplomat of a protocol, they also bloom in the private sphere, and accompany life’s stages and events.
As spring begins, flowers blossom in the pages of this ninth edition, cultivated, ornamental, extracted and enjoyed for the pleasure of our senses. A pleasure to give, a joy to receive.

Interviews: Alain Baraton, Head gardener of the Jardins du château de Versailles, Charlotte Urbain, Maison de Parfums Fragonard, Sophie Rouart, heritage collections of Maison Pierre Frey, Sylvie Albrand Bolmont, edible flower producer
Portfolio: Alex MacLean (USA), Luiza Holub (United Kingdom), Akatre (France), Tristan Hollingsworth (USA), Phil Greenwood (United Kingdom), Johanna Rocard (France), Mike Willcox (USA), Mao Lizi (China), Santtu Mustonen (Finland)
Font design: Picaflor, Ariel Martín Pérez
Selection: Maison Lemarié, Lotus temple, William Morris, Thousands, Offrir des fleurs, Xavier Antin, Karl Blossfedt, Najia Mehadji, Macoto Murayama, Viv Lee…
Contributors : Stella Ammar, Sandra Bideau, Marion Cole, Louise von Cronenberger, Christopher Dessus, Christelle Dion, Emilie Fernandez, Simon Pages, Anna Philippi, Léo Puel

Jan Tschichold – Erfreuliche Drucksachen

Conceived by Tschichold himself for young typesetters, today ‘Jan Tschichold – Erfreuliche Drucksachen’ is an indispensable book for anyone involved in text design. A classic of typography. Facsimile of the edition whose printing Tschichold himself supervised.
Tschichold is one of the most important designers and typeface creators of the last century. Without being a member of the Bauhaus himself, Tschichold shaped Bauhaus typography theoretically with his famous works like no one else. Towards the end of his life, he reflected on the fundamentals of typography and wrote “Erfreuliche Drucksachen durch gute Typographie” as a handbook for young typesetters. His credo: “In a typographic masterpiece, the artist’s handwriting appears to be erased.”

Jan Tschichold, born in Leipzig in 1902, dedicated his life to the design of type and its legibility and to the craft of bookmaking. He sparked a revolution and shaped the typographic landscape of this century like hardly anyone else.