One decade after founding Ditroit, its creative director Salvo Giunta together with all his crew, past and present, decided to go down the memory lane and reminisce the most relevant moments to their growth, both on a human and on a professional level. Published by Mr. Giunta himself, this book is about what a design studio goes through in its first years of life and it includes testimonies by Ditroit’s members and collaborators, as well as many pictures, storyboard, sketches and stolen moments from the studio life.
In their words: “The DITROIT — TEN YEARS BOOK is like a dissertation to present to the school board after an intense decade in the classroom. In this sense, we may thus consider today to be our true starting point: we studied, we failed, we lost heart, but then we took notes, learned, and our grades eventually got better. We had fun, we went through some rough patches, but we’re finally ready for the greater challenge of adulthood.”
Let’s Play Outdoors!
“Let’s Play Outdoors!” is a book that encourages children to go and play outside and discover what nature has to offer.
Leave the house and roam outdoors: It is a fascinating place, waiting to be conquered by children with curious minds. Let’s Play Outdoors! encourages little nature detectives—not just to see, but also to listen, to touch, and to smell our surroundings. Climbing trees, watching clouds, tracing animals’ footprints, playing games outdoors …
This book is packed with simple activities and experiences to inspire the environmentally-conscious children of today. The suggested activities inspire independent learning about animals, plants, and the weather, as well as how to look after the world.
What to expect
– Over 20 activities and ideas
– Simple, easy-to-follow instructions that help the fun unfold
– Information on the importance of why and how nature works
– A bold and colorful illustration style
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherine Ard’s first job after her studies was writing children’s comics. Since then, she has written and edited many craft books for children. She lives in Bristol with her family. Their little dog, Annie, sleeps at her feet while she is working.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Carla McRae is an Australian illustrator living and working in Melbourne. Her work covers editorial, publishing, and branding. She also likes to design socks and paints large-scale mural projects.
ABOUT THE RESEARCHER
Polly Jarman has worked for many years with young people through environmental education and outdoor activity projects.
Cercle Magazine #7 – Volcanoes
Cercle Magazine #7 – Volcanoes is all about Volcanoes! Rocks, magma, strata, stones, explosion, lava, fumaroles… With Cercle, 2019 will definitely be under the aegis of geology. Monster made of lava and ashes, the volcano impresses, but is also a source of fascination and beauty, a marker of the world’s health and dynamism. And when the lava buries all its surroundings, it is the creative energy and the destructive passion that this issue calls for. With four interviews of professionals working in art, cinema, volcanology, sociology, plus a portfolio introducing ten artists, photographers or illustrators interviewed about their practice, this seventh issue of Cercle Magazine will be the most explosive of all!
Content: Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff (Interview, France), Anton Moglia & Jérémy Landes / Velvetyne Type Foundry (font design, France), Léo Puel (Films, France), Maria Medem (Portfolio, Spain), Daesung Lee (Portfolio, South Korea), Émilie Fernandez & Alexandre Rochon (Music, France), André Demaison (Interview, France), Perrine Lotiron (Fashion, Canada), Agata Felluga (Food, Italy/France), Emmanuelle Pidoux (Portfolio, France), Verene de Hutten (Publication, France), Marion Cole (Translation, France), and many many more…
Cercle Magazine #8 – Ghosts
After a long wait during which it’s been impossible to release the magazine, our eighth issue is finally out. Cercle Magazine #8 – Ghosts explores the unexplained, the intangible, the transparent. It wonders about our relationship to ghosts, let them haunt us, make us scream with fear or laugh, whether light spectrum or wandering in the dark worlds.
Four interviews with enthusiasts professionals or amateurs, ten illustrators, photographers or visual artists, interviewed about their practice, and always varied selections, here finally is the eighth issue of Cercle Magazine.
With the point of view of Felipe Ribon, French/Colombian designer. He works on fascinating objects that allows living humans to contact deads, such as pendulum, turning tables or mirrors.
Caroline Callard, historian and author of Le temps des fantômes: Spectralities of the Old Regime from the 16th to the 17th century clarifies our vision of ghosts in terms of history and how their presence has been felt even in the courts.
Stephane Du Mesnildot, critic for Les Cahiers du Cinéma. Asian cinema specialist and author of a book on ghosts in Japanese cinema, he is also the co-director of the exhibition Hells and Ghosts of Asia at Quai Branly.
Mack Rides, German family company, founder of Europa Park and maker of many ghost trains and other haunted houses for parks around the world.
Artists, illustrators, photographers: Jules Julien (France), Stephan Tillmans (Germany), Angela Deane (USA), Akos Major (Hungary), Eduardo Mata Icaza (Costa Rica), Eva Feuchter (Germany), Josh Courlas (USA) and Rhys Ziemba (USA).
Shape Grammars
How can unique pieces be mass produced? Or: How can the computer take over and support creative work? Sol LeWitt writes in his Sentences on Conceptual Art: “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. […] There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.” A form is removed from the status of pure art as soon as it is filled with unambiguous information or applied utility. Its poetic function as art is thus weakened, its practical function as design is strengthened.
With the right system, an idea can also become a machine that produces design instead of art. This is then called generative design. However, this form of design is primarily used to display complex data sets or to fire off overwhelming visual spectacles.
Based on the work of Sol LeWitt, graphic designer Jannis Maroscheck has designed and programmed his own production systems that can draw an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes.
The result is a systematic catalog—a kind of dictionary of shapes—for browsing and exploring geometric systems, in which one can always discover something new. Shape Grammars is intended as a handbook for graphic designers for the design of fonts, logos and pictograms, which, in addition to 150,000 generated shapes, shows some potentials and limitations of generative design. At the same time, the work serves as a basis for further research on more complex systems and artificial intelligence. The computer can thus already function as a dialog partner in the creative process.
Awarded with ADC Award Germany (Silver).
Slanted Special Issue Rhineland-Palatinate
Above all, Rhineland-Palatinate stands out for its wine with 65 percent of German wine being produced there. But what about design? Following the Special Issues of Babylon (2013), Marrakech (2016), and Rwanda (2019), we were curious to find out more about our Heimat Germany and highlight regional differences.
The first destination of our journey took us right across the Rhine, to Rhineland-Palatinate. In its state capital Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg invented letterpress printing and delivered the first printed Bible in 1456, and probably drank a pint of wine on it. The state was formerly founded from the French occupation zone after a referendum on the state constitution on May 18th, 1947, two years before the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. The black, red, and gold of the flag of the Hambach Festival, the first democratic demonstration, are still the colors of the Federal Republic of Germany today.
The state has a long tradition of arts and craftsmanship, supported and kept alive by a strong middle-class as well as strong regional institutions and cultural drivers. Awards such as the State Prize for Arts and Crafts promote, amongst others, outstanding gem and jewelry designers, ceramists, silversmiths, carpenters, barrel makers, and textile designers of the region.
With the help of descom—Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate we sourced designers, photographers, illustrators and makers—all people who love their region and are passionate about what they do. So yes, beyond beautiful landscapes with vineyards, rivers, forests, and castles, Rhineland-Palatinate is a shining example of design in Germany, that moves with time while sticking to its roots.
Slanted Magazine #35—L.A.
From the perspective of a European, Los Angeles is the opposite of our old metropolises. The sprawling multi-dimensionality is alien, and for many, gets on our nerves: the tangled network of highways and the constant driving around (damn you, General Motors streetcar scandal!), the emphasized nonchalance and never ending optimism of everyone, the sunny weather, the ingenious modernist architecture, the film industry, the tourists and the shitty art museums … perhaps, just perhaps everything about this city gets on our nerves. Despite, or maybe because of all of this, L.A. is a fucking awesome city, both in the Biblical sense and the slang sense. This staggering awesomeness is fucking undeniable.
We wanted to meet Ed Ruscha to talk about his mysteriously seductive and motionless-looking reductive paintings. Unfortunately it didn’t work out, but his piece “Hollywood is a verb” inspired the three different titles/cover variations of this issue. We would also have liked to see David Hockney, who fled the austerity and grey oppression of England (an early Brexit) to Los Angeles to discover a sunny and hedonistic city. No dice there, either. But hey!, in a town like L.A. and on a production like Slanted’s, not everything has to work out. Often, the best things happen when they’re not planned, just as they did here.
We hung out with the wonderful actor Udo Kier and learned a lot about Hollywood and his life. We spent a superb evening with Sarah Lorenzen and her husband, photographer David Hartwell, who meticulously restored the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, the home of architect Richard Neutra (see our video interviews), and a number of other luminaries.
Our partner-in-crime Ian Lynam introduced us to tons of great designers, artists and teachers, who all—really, all—when asked where their allegiance lies: with N.Y. or L.A., yelled “L.A.!!!” without batting an eyelid. You can find their brilliant works in the new issue, and a deeper look at their opinions and views through video interviews that can be watched online on our video platform for free.
Illustrations, interviews, essays, and a huge appendix with many useful tips and the best Californian typefaces complement the issue thematically.
Have a look at our limited L.A. special edition, containing an enamel pin showcasing your love for a good read, and a super glossy notebook to write down all your ideas.
Offset Printing: Stober
Silkscreen Printing: Seismografics
Paper: PERGRAPHICA® by Mondi Group
Awarded with German Design Award (Special Mention).
Auslöser Magazine Issue 3
Interview with Paul Albert Leitner, Nadia Morozewicz, Daniel Chatard, Katrin Koenning.
Behind the scenes: Vienna Secession.
In detail: Apple QuickTake
further 01
The Fotobus Society, set up by Christoph Bangert, is a network that connects more than 400 photography students from 29 German and European universities and photography schools. Members can avail themselves of a wide range of cultural and social activities offered by the association. At the heart of the community is a 30-year-old bus serving as a mobile photography school that regularly carries members to photo festivals, symposia, and professional events. Over the last years, the association has firmly established itself as a promoter of cultural and academic exchange within the international photography scene.
FURTHER 01 is showcasing selected works by members, inaugurates a series that from now on will be published annually by Verlag Kettler. The projects presented in this first edition offer an overview of different contemporary approaches that oscillate between documentary and conceptual photography, challenging and crossing the boundaries of the genre. Many of these works have already received international awards. Collected in a single volume, they provide intriguing insights into today’s young European world of photography.
Works by: Arne Piepke, Mafalda Rakoš, Vivian Rutsch, Max Slobodda, Felix Kleymann, Lena Kunz, Elias Holzknecht, Martin Lamberty, Maximilian Mann, Lucas Bäuml & Lando Hass, Alexander Ziegler, Ole Witt, Luise Jakobi, Ronja Hermann, Jann Höfer, Ingmar B. Nolting, Kristina Lenz, Markus Seibel, Patrick Junker, Lukas Kreibig, Sebi Berens, Rafael Heygster, Richard Heinicke, Magnus Terhorst & Thomas Morsch, Anna Roters, Theresa Albers, Fabian Ritter, Katja Sterzik & Wolfgang Gähtgens & Ronja Hermann & Florian Genz, Monika Hanfland, Victoria Jung, Elena Fiebig, Marvin Böhm, Josh Kern, Benedikt Ziegler
Şimdi heißt jetzt
“The first thing a big city does to us is sneak into their language, and if we don’t curse, the curse will fall on our cells.” Şimdi heißt jetzt (“Şimdi means now”) is a collection of personal essays. Fifteen authors tell of their encounters, adventures, and crises in Istanbul—lively, honest, humorous, and sometimes melancholic.
The interplay of atmospheric illustrations and background information on everyday Turkish culture creates a complex picture of this city in which so many cultural influences, social ideas and individual dreams mix together.
Şimdi heißt jetzt is intended to make encounters possible. Encounter with new impressions and personal perspectives that arouse curiosity and create connections between Turkey and Germany.
We are far away from each other. We are close to each other. And we care about each other.
With contributions from Tuğba Yalcınkaya, Carina Plinke, Matthias Wechsler, Seda Sina, Neslihan Yakut, Marie Hartlieb, Navid Linnemann, Onur Sesigür, Zeynep Ünal, Seden Filiz Güleç, Onur Sekmen, Derya Reinalda, Marlene Resch, Uğur Ugan, Sabrina Raap.
Guidelines and Standards for Visual Design
Less than a quarter of a century after the end of National Socialism, Otl Aicher was commissioned to design the “cheerful” XX. Olympic Games in Munich, 1972 . He took a systematic and scientific approach, liberating visual communication from national pathos and reducing it to the essential, in the spirit of the Bauhaus: purpose. The manual “Richtlinien und Normen für die visuelle Gestaltung”, completed in 1967, is an astonishingly clear set of rules, a flexible system of colors, forms and writing that allowed Aicher’s team and partners to “play freely” and saved “unnecessary preparatory work and time-consuming detailed decisions.”
Aicher had a comprehensive requirement: everything should be able to be designed. With the results from more than 100 design areas, he succeeded in creating an extraordinary broad effect of the appearance and, in addition, in setting new standards in corporate design. To this day, Guidelines and Standards for Visual Design for Munich 1972 is considered the most successful design project of all the Olympic Games.
Otl Aicher (1922–1991) was an internationally acclaimed graphic designer and educator, renowned for his corporate identity work, visual communication systems, and typography. With concise corporate designs for commercial enterprises, for example the Deutsche Lufthansa, his visual communication system for the Munich Olympic Games of 1972, and in particular as co-founder (together with Max Bill) and rector of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm—an experimental design school in the spirit of the Bauhaus—he achieved a high reputation worldwide.
Karl-Heinz Drescher—Berlin Typo Posters, Texts, and Interviews
Karl-Heinz Drescher (born on October 7, 1936 in Quirl; died on May 19, 2011 in Berlin) was a graphic artist working at Bertolt Brecht’s world famous theater Berliner Ensemble as a graphic designer for almost 40 years. In addition to his work at this house, Drescher also worked for other organizers, museums, galleries, and theaters, amongst others the Akademie der Künste der DDR, the Maxim-Gorki-Theater, and the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin. His catalog of works today comprises over 400 posters, about one third printed with letterpress.
In a one-year research, the designer Markus Lange contacted Drescher’s family and conducted various interviews with companions and friends to find out more about this talented designer, who studied from 1955 to 1960 in the former GDR at the same school as he did (Burg Giebichenstein, formerly Hochschule für industrielle Formgestaltung).
For the first time, this book summarizes most of Drescher’s (typographic) posters in one comprehensive volume and contains texts and interviews by various authors such as Dr. Friedrich Diekmann, Dr. Sylke Wunderlich, Helmut Brade, Niklaus Troxler, Gerd Fleischmann, Jamie Murphy, Erik Spiekermann, Ferdinand Ulrich, Götz Gramlich, Peter Kammerer, Vera Tenschert, Cesarina and Alessandro Drescher. “Karl-Heinz Drescher—Berlin Typo Posters, Texts, and Interviews” serves as a review of the life of an extraordinary theater graphic designer but also as an inspiration for the here and now.
Awarded with Type Directors Club New York, and Tokyo TDC Award.
Original Poster: K.H. Drescher “Britisches Bühnenbild”
Karl-Heinz Drescher (1936-2011) was a graphic designer who worked for almost 40 years at the world famous Berliner Ensemble theater of Bertolt Brecht. His catalog of works today comprises over 400 posters, about a third of which are printed by letterpress. The original posters from the archive are provided by the family of K.H. Drescher. Despite the great age, they didn’t lose any of their value and history, that’s behind every single one of them.
More about Karl-Heinz Drescher can be found in the comprehensive book K.H. Drescher: Berlin Typo Posters, Texts, and Interviews published by Slanted Publishers.
WV 153: Britisches Bühnenbild → 1980
Internationales Theaterinstitut der DDR
81.2 × 57.4 cm
Limited to one poster.
Garbage Dog
In a down and out city, Garbage Dog huddles in his cardboard home dreaming of sweet pies and meaty sausages. Even in the darkest of times, a kind dog keeps his spirits up and looks after others. The warmth of Garbage Dog’s character in a cruel city reminds us all that kindness and sympathy is something we create.
A sweet tale that shows how the best gift is one we can all give—the gift of kindness.
A Map of the World
For centuries we have used the tools of cartography to represent both our immediate surroundings and the world at large—and to convey them to others. In our age of satellite navigation systems and Google Maps, personal interpretations of the geography around us are becoming even more relevant. Contemporary maps have evolved into platforms for cutting-edge illustration, experimental data visualization, and personal visual storytelling, just like A Map of the World.
A new generation of designers, illustrators, and mapmakers has been discovering their passion for various forms of illustrative cartography and A Map of the World is a compelling collection of their work. It showcases specific regions, characterizes local scenes, generates moods, and tells stories beyond sheer navigation. From accurate and surprisingly detailed representations to personal, naïve, and modernistic interpretations, the featured projects in this updated version range from maps and atlases inspired by classic forms to cartographic experiments and editorial illustrations.
Six Little Birds
What do six little birds do once they’ve learned to fly? One bird nibbles on a sunflower, another flies dangerously close to a hawk, and one little bird says goodbye to all of the birds who are flying south. During winter, another little bird meets some new friends, and finally, the story finishes in the spring in a full circle, right where it all began.
Simple rhymes and colorful illustrations make Six Little Birds a charming pop-up for small children. The book gives children counting skills, and it teaches them about the four seasons, nature and the cycle of life.
Auslöser Magazine Issue 2
4 long-form in-depth interviews with photographers: James Barnor, Pixy Liao, Alex Dietrich, Leah Edelman-Brier.
Behind the scenes photo reportage of the worldwide oldest, still running cinema: Breitenseer Lichtspiele in Vienna.
In detail: a special, selected camera from the WestLicht camera museum
Squadron
For artistic duo of typographer Jan Matoušek and photographer Vojtěch Veškrna, the gateway to the subject was its visual power. Through the creation of fonts and photographic images, they tried to mirror the themes in a new, personally conceived form. The font family and the photographic series, in harmony with the historical context, create an original work that allows the viewer to perceive the past and the present simultaneously. Squadron is a book—a tool really—for further intellectual searching and new interpretations, published by Biggboss. Within the rigid confines of the font patterns with carefully observed dimensions, that is, into a space where rules are paramount, the creators attempted to also imprint a living, organic content. Just like the pilot is part of the extremely technically-dominated world of his aircraft.
Two timelines intertwine in Squadron. On the photographic level, history is represented by the work of Ladislav Sitenský, whose photographs of British bases were digitalized specifically for this book. The present day is represented by Vojtěch Veškrna and his photo series from the air base of the tactical Air Force in Čáslav. Both photographers have in common a fascination with aviation, and therefore also with the symbiosis of man and machine.
A fundamental moment for the creators of the Squadron project was their meeting and interview with Brigadier General Miroslav Štandera. During his life, he managed to experience enough for at least two additional ones, despite which he withstood all of the dramas and somersaults of fate, and with elegance and humor at that. In response to the question of why, in 1939, he voluntarily left his, at the time, occupied homeland, he replied: “We took it as our duty. We were brought up a little differently than you’ve been. We were Masaryk’s guys, most of us simply thought that way.”
Those words helped Matoušek and Veškrnareason understand for why, despite the uncertainty and facing a dramatic fate, Czechoslovak airmen voluntarily left to fight for democratic ideals, freedom and human values. Not three weeks after their visit to Miroslav Štandera, this last fighter pilot and direct participant in the battles in France and Great Britain passed away, at the age of 95.
As representatives of the generation born at the end of the twentieth century, Matoušek and Veškrna were able to glimpse the last rays of light of a setting story. Czechoslovak airmen often paid twice for their courage—those who survived the war were jailed or otherwise persecuted. And even their children, due to the inconvenient reputations of their fathers as “western airmen” were not allowed to study, or were subjected to other hardships in their lives.
Since the end of the Second World War, the world has managed to change radically and accelerate. The world witnesses and participates in the shifting of human and technical possibilities, rapidly changing standards of behavior, social dogmas and rules. From this moment of the present, people constantly reflect on the past and create a vision of the future. Squadron is a tool designed to support this creative process, of which everyone is a co-creator. Hopefully, it also bears the torch of a story that should be remembered.
TypoLyrics – The Sound of Fonts
Graphic designers love music. This is shown not least by the great enthusiasm of the readers of the typography magazine Slanted for the category Typo Lyrics, in which designers reinterpret music with the help of writing. For the publication of the same name, renowned graphic designers and young talents from all over the world have been inspired by lyrics to innovative font designs. The result is a collection of fascinating visuals – “typefaces” that present contemporary fonts in a slightly different way.
The extraordinary combination of typeface design and music brings the fonts alive and makes them literally dance. In contrast to classic pattern books or fonts, a special, emotional approach to typography is created, which makes clear the great potential for expression of fonts. Analogous to the traditional classification of fonts, the book is divided into eleven chapters, each of which deals with a font family and song lyrics of a specific musical genre.
With contributions from:
123buero (GER)
Base (ES)
bauer (A)
Bureau Mario Lombardo (GER)
Bureau Mirko Borsche (GER)
Fons Hickmann m23 (GER)
Gavillet & Rust (CH)
L2M3 (GER)
Mainstudio (NL)
Matt W. Moore (USA)
Norm (CH)
Paula Troxler (CH)
Pixelgarten (GER)
Vier5 (FR)
und vielen anderen
The Fourth Estate Utopias—House of Common Affairs #1
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.
Contents
• Introduction by Noortje van Eekelen
• Forum 1: “An Artist, a Politician, and a Journalist Walk Into a Bar …” with Belle Phromchanya, Ruben Pater, Ken Hollings, Monika Parrinder, Noortje van Eekelen and participants; moderated by Paula Minelgaite
• “Form, function, content, payroll: micro and macro politics of design,” essay by Depatriarchise Design
• Interviews with Alina Negoita, Chourouk Zarkaoui and Latifah Al-Said
• Forum 2: “What Do We Want? Clickbait! When Do We Want It? The Answer Will Shock You!” with Olivier Kugler, Jessie Bond, Theo Inglis and participants; moderated by Paula Minelgaite
• “Parallel channels,” essay by Jaione Cerrato
Contributors
• Alina Negoita is an interdisciplinary artist
• Belle Phromchanya is a designer, visual researcher, and filmmaker
• Chourouk Zarkaoui is a multidisciplinary designer and communicator
• Depatriarchise Design (Anja Neidhardt and Maya Ober) is a research platform focusing on Design Patriarchy
• Jaione Cerrato is a graphic designer and artist
• Jessie Bond is a writer, researcher, and editor
• Ken Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist
• Latifah Al-Said is an artist of British/Omani heritage
• Monika Parrinder is a design writer, consultant, and educator
• Noortje van Eekelen is the founder and director of ACED
• Olivier Kugler is a reportage illustrator
• Paula Minelgaite is a designer concerned with the politics of truth
• Ruben Pater is a designer and researcher
• Theo Inglis is a graphic designer and writer
Analog Algorithm—Source-Related Grid Systems
This book is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques to develop new forms, fonts, logos, and patterns. The concept represents a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger and deeper principles than immediate and spontaneous-intuitive actions.
Using a wide variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tool they need to find analytical forms—analog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.
The procedures described allow an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms for logos, fonts or patterns on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.
Will Feel Eyes on
The photo book Will Feel Eyes on by Kai Jünemann, internationally renowned photographer, represents a colorful and spontaneous visual diary with 113 photographs taken during his first and intense stay in Teheran, Iran.
From the editorial by Dirk Gebhardt:
“On the street, patterns and signs shape a unique space of non-verbal communication. The Western gaze recognizes them in part by recalling familiar pictorial patterns. Porcelain horses, cheetah prints, and the last supper directly reference the sociological and symbolic significance of the Occident. In combination with the curved writing of Koran suras on pillows, covered hair, and colorful printed fabrics, they develop a new, unknown meaning. To confront Iran photographically, while remaining unaffected by its political dimension, is a challenge.
Kai Jünemann circumvents a personal statement through the coded, playful exploration of visual surfaces. The details, frames, and harsh exposures of his images, cut objects, people, and situations out of reality with the precision of a scalpel. Jünemann’s world is reduced to patterns and rhythms, thereby metaphorically representing the merging and cross-influencing of cultures.
The unusual is so mundane that the familiar astonishes the viewer, who is immediately confronted with the question of his own clichés and habits of seeing. Symbols of status and pride, elegance and banality, power and eroticism collide with each other in a colorful and mixed way, thus forming a cosmos of humanity—comprehensible and emphatic. What was once foreign ground is transformed into home territory, despite or maybe even because of the exoticism of many pictures in Jünemann’s visual Iranian diary.”
Poster »AZ – The Future of Type«
hinzkunst Poster designed by burkhardthauke, a multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2009 by Ralph Burkhardt and Daniel Hauke. The office has since been honored with numerous national and international awards.
The Monocle Travel Guide Series – Hamburg
Founded in London in 2007, Monocle magazine is at home all over the world. Thanks to its network of international offices (London, New York, Toronto, Zurich, Istanbul, Tokyo, Singapore) and more than 30 correspondents worldwide, the team always delivers valuable first-hand information.
The Monocle Travel Guide Series is aimed at travellers who do not see themselves as tourists, but want to move around in a foreign city like locals. With an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of the metropolises, the Monocle team puts together the best insider addresses that are indispensable for a city trip off the beaten track.
If Berlin is Germany’s clubbing capital then Hamburg is the dinner party that’s as raucous as it is refined—and the guests are a varied bunch too. Stroll around this port city and you’ll brush shoulders with local fishermen on the banks of the River Elbe, world-renowned gallerists hosting cutting-edge exhibitions, and independent retailers flaunting wares that are either “Made in Hamburg” or exotic. Pull up a chair and meet the lot of them.