The Monocle Travel Guide Series – Athens

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.

Think of Athens and the first things that spring to mind are ancient ruins and camera-toting crowds. But there’s much more to the Greek capital than temples and tourists. We’ve looked beyond the admittedly awe-inspiring Parthenon and explored the city’s modernist marvels. For now, though, strap up your sandals and allow us to introduce you to this chaotic but ever-so-charismatic city.

The Monocle Travel Guide Series – Zürich, Geneva + Basel

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.

In this guide we delve into three Swiss cities and uncover what makes them tick. We tour the spotless streets of Zürich, highlighting its distinguished commercial-gallery scene, glistening lake, inviting swimming spots and burgeoning set of top-notch restaurants and bars. Next, we head west to explore Geneva, with its luxury retailers, independent chocolatiers and curious collection of architecture. Finally, we finish with a jaunt around petite Basel and admire its robust offering of contemporary structures and world-class museums. The Monocle Travel Guide to Zürich, Geneva + Basel celebrates the richness of these three cities and dives beneath the surface to bring an unexpected mix of creativity, entrepreneurialism and design.

Structuring Design. Graphic Grids in Theory and Practice

In visual communication, contents are arranged, organized, and presented. Design laws and principles that are inherent to every medium ensure that from a distance a novel looks like a novel, an art catalog like an art catalog, and a magazine like a magazine. This publication offers a compact mix of explanations, practical tips, and background information on the topic.
At its center is the grid as the most important design principle, whose function and application are thoroughly discussed. The grid allows a consolidated approach to a structured design like a blueprint that supports not only faster and easier reading but also better comprehension of information. In a second part, the author discusses the design process itself with answers to seemingly simple questions of what to observe when designing and the sequence of steps. Another chapter focuses on relevant theoretical aspects such as how method and intuition are correlated. The final section contains an extensive glossary.

A5/08: Best German Posters

In 1949, the competition “Die besten Plakate des Jahres” (The Best Posters of the Year) took place for the first time in the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany. Designers could enter poster designs from the past year, a jury of experts awarded prizes for the best works. From 1966 onwards, there was such an annual competition in the GDR too. Many of the commended works from that time are today amongst the canon of German and international design history.

The book tells the eventful history of the competitions and their changing shape over the decades. The picture section shows over 250 posters from 1949 to 2000 from a total of almost 4,000 award-winning works. An all-German poster history, which visualizes lasting changes as well as transient design trends and shows many of the best German posters, including works by Hellmut Brade, cyan, Michael Engelmann, Frieder Grindler, Erhard Grüttner, Rudolf Grüttner, Hans Hillmann, Günther Kieser, Uwe Loesch, Holder Matthies, Pierre Mendell, Rolf Felix Müller, Volker Pfüller, Ott+Stein, Gunter Rambow and many others.

Slanted Magazine #34—Europe

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

The European Union with its 28 (status 2019) member states today is facing difficult times: financial crisis, refugees, loss of allies, and exit scenarios—as implemented in the United Kingdom—lead to fear and insecurity. Above all, we are also witnessing how the digital revolution is creating a new image of mankind. The technical possibilities are about to go beyond what is politically and morally imperative.

So far, Slanted has devoted its editions to individual countries or metropolises in order to take a look at the design scenes. This time we are reacting towards the need of getting together and showing the importance of the voice we have and should use, to protect the freedom others have reached for us.

Slanted Magazine #34—Europe is a plea for a multi-faceted and vibrant Europe, against the backdrop of an Europe of nations, right-wing populism, and selfish politics. It is an inventory of Europe, showing a comment, a perspective, a feeling of illustrators, photographers, writers and graphic designers from all around Europe.

On occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #34—Europe, a limited Europe special edition has been published and was exclusively available in the Slanted shop. It contains a tote bag with the European flag motif and a collection of 9 zines, printed with 2 colors on a risograph, that take a closer look at the values of Europe.

Awarded with ADC Award Germany (Silver).

Limited Europe Special Edition / Magazine + Risograph Zines + Tote Bag

On occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #34—Europe, a limited Europe special edition has been published and is exclusively available in the Slanted shop. It contains a tote bag with the European flag motif and a collection of 9 zines, printed with 2 colours on a risograph, that take a closer look at the values of Europe.

This Is Europe

The great importance we attach to the fundamental values of Europe shows that these are more than ever the essence of European identity. In the seminar This Is Europe at Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG), 9 students asked themselves the following questions: What about freedom, democracy, equality, tolerance, rule of law? What values does Europe stand for today, and what are the common achievements of which we as Europeans are proud of?

The results are now visible in this collection of zines that are a personal plea for a multifaceted Europe.

Concept and supervision: Julia Kahl
Design Zines: Adrian Dickhoff (DE), Bob Reinert (LU), Cara Kollmann (DE), Emma Lilo Keller (DE), Gisela Chueca de Bruijn (ES), Julia Ihls (DE), Juliane Schmitt (DE), Laura Kluge (DE), Miriam Hörig (DE), Zhang Xinyi (CN)
Volume: 9 × 16 pages
Format: 14.8 × 21 cm
Paper: Holmen Trnd 2.0. 80 g/sm
Printing: Risograph, orange and medium blue
Binding: staple binding + banderole and sticker

Europe Tote Bag

Show your colors with this tote bag!

Design: Slanted Publishers
Size: 38 × 42 cm
Material: 100% heavy cotton
Version: long handles (70 cm)
Print: Silkscreen

Slanted Magazine #34—Europe

The European Union with its 28 member states today is facing difficult times: financial crisis, refugees, loss of allies, and exit scenarios—as implemented in the United Kingdom—lead to fear and insecurity. Above all, we are also witnessing how the digital revolution is creating a new image of mankind. The technical possibilities are about to go beyond what is politically and morally imperative.

So far, Slanted has devoted its editions to individual countries or metropolises in order to take a look at the design scenes. This time we are reacting towards the need of getting together and showing the importance of the voice we have and should use, to protect the freedom others have reached for us.

Slanted Magazine #34—Europe is a plea for a multi-faceted and vibrant Europe, against the backdrop of an Europe of nations, right-wing populism, and selfish politics. It is an inventory of Europe, showing a comment, a perspective, a feeling of illustrators, photographers, writers and graphic designers from all around Europe.

Publisher and Design: Slanted Publishers
Volume: 256 pages
Format: 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: Stober
Paper: Holmen TRND Vintage 1.6 by Holmen Paper, MultiArt Gloss by Papyrus Deutschland
Cardboard Cover: Atelier by Papyrus Deutschland
ISSN: 1867-6510

Also available without Slanted Magazine #34—Europe.

Limited Europe Special Edition / Risograph Zines + Tote Bag

On occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #34—Europe, a limited Europe special edition has been published and is exclusively available in the Slanted shop. It contains a tote bag with the European flag motif and a collection of 9 zines, printed with 2 colors on a risograph, that take a closer look at the values of Europe.

This Is Europe

The great importance we attach to the fundamental values of Europe shows that these are more than ever the essence of European identity. In the seminar This Is Europe at Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG), 9 students asked themselves the following questions: What about freedom, democracy, equality, tolerance, rule of law? What values does Europe stand for today, and what are the common achievements of which we as Europeans are proud of?

The results are now visible in this collection of zines that are a personal plea for a multifaceted Europe.

Concept and supervision: Julia Kahl
Design Zines: Adrian Dickhoff (DE), Bob Reinert (LU), Cara Kollmann (DE), Emma Lilo Keller (DE), Gisela Chueca de Bruijn (ES), Julia Ihls (DE), Juliane Schmitt (DE), Laura Kluge (DE), Miriam Hörig (DE), Zhang Xinyi (CN)
Volume: 9 × 16 pages
Format: 14.8 × 21 cm
Paper: Holmen Trnd 2.0. 80 g/sm
Printing: Risograph, orange and medium blue
Binding: staple binding + banderole and sticker

Europe Tote Bag

Show your colors with this tote bag!

Design: Slanted Publishers
Size: 38 × 42 cm
Material: 100% heavy cotton
Version: long handles (70 cm)
Print: Silkscreen

Also available with Slanted Magazine #34—Europe.

Poster »Book Design Workshop«

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.

H–O–T Histories Of Tomorrow

For this magazine only texts & pictures from the World Wide Web were used, which Raban Ruddigkeit and Lars Harmsen now combine with the quality of print to show their radical power and their boundless freedom, to make new and unusual ideas more understandable and of course also to make the whole thing a bit more readable.-)

“We believe that there are countless voices out there that deserve to be heard. Also or especially because they challenge our habits, question our certainties & shake our minds. But when we take a closer look, we find that there is always more that unites us than that separates us. And also what we can really do new, different & better with it.”

With Mit Hatice Akyün, Melissa Akyıldız, Salomé Balthus, Ben de Biel, Dirk Büchsenschütz, Ina Busch, Thomas Chudalla, Esther Czaya, Yennifer Dallmann Villa, Finsterwalder, Bürgernetzwerk, Mirna Funk, Peter Glaser, Svetlana Gradetchieva, Katharina Großmann-Hensel, Esra Gülmen, Luetfiye Güzel, Lars Harmsen, Jessica Jurassica, Behzad Karim-Khani, Jürgen Kasek, Guillaume Kashima, Hasnain Kazim, Andrian Kreye, Markus Lange, Michael R. Ludwig, Christian Nürnberger, Alan Posener, Susann Rehlein, Raban Ruddigkeit, Mark Scheppert, Alexandra A Schulz, Kuku Schrapnell, Ralf Schwartz, Johannes Staemmler, Dasa Szekely, Chris Tille, Ingeborg Trampe, Justine Turbine & Ewald Wildtraut

Yearbook of Type 2019/20

At a time when it has never been easier to design, publish, and distribute typefaces, standing out as a designer is now evermore challenging. For typeface users in particular, staying up to date with the latest font trends and innovations and having to choose the right font for a project, has hardly been more difficult. The Yearbook of Type 2019/20 is a practical guide that helps users navigate the diverse, ocean-like, typographical landscape in order to choose a font that is right for them, and one that fits their project needs.

The reader is introduced to the world of typography through a series of articles showcasing sketches, background knowledge, technical information, instructions, and descriptions as well as the latest trends in contemporary typeface design.

Each individual typeface is presented on a double-page spread in the Yearbook of Type 2019/20. Featured on the left-hand side is a specimen page, whilst the right-hand page provides detailed information about the corresponding designer and foundry, in addition to an overview of the typefaces’ characteristics. This is supplemented by an extensive index which clearly displays the fonts according to classification, as well as presenting the font designers, publishers, and explanations of OpenType features. Thanks to an online microsite, the fonts presented in the book can be directly accessed in order to either download test versions or to buy them.

– Detailed presentation of 158 recent typefaces
– Ample background information
– Index of typeface classifications
– Index of all 176 type designers and 98 foundries from 36 countries
– Explanation of all OpenType features
– Essays, interviews, and tutorials by Pedro Amado, Massimiliano Audretsch, Bianca Berning, Ian Lynam, Lilo Schäfer, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, Mark van Wageningen, Amber Weaver, Stefan Willerstorfer, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, and Benjamin Wurster.

Presented type foundries: 205TF, 29Letters, AinsiFont, Antipixel, Binnenland, BLKBK Inc., Bonez Designz, Brownfox, Bureau Sebastian Moock, BVH Type, Cadson Demak, Calligrafiction, CAST Foundry, character type foundry, Connary Fagen, Inc., Darden Studio, Degarism Studio, Design is Culture, Detail Type Foundry, Dezcom, Dominique Kerber, FaceType, FAEL, Fatype, Fazan Fonts, FBAUP, Fontador, Fontfabric, Frere-Jones Type, FSdesign, FutureFonts, Hanken Design Co., Hoftype, Hurme Design, HvD Fonts, JAM Type, Jan Fromm, Jeremy Tankard Typography, Jonas Pelzer, Kimmy Design, Kontour, La Bolde Vita, Laïc: Type Foundry, Latinotype, Latinotype México, Lazydogs Typefoundry, LetterPalette, Los Andes Type, LUCRA Designstudio, Ludwig Type, Lux Typo, Mark Simonson Studio, Metis Foundry, Morisawa Inc., MOTORTYPE, NEW LETTERS, Nicolas Portnoï, Nouvelle Noire, Nova Type Foundry, Occupant Fonts, Our Polite Society Type, P22 type foundry, PampaType, Parachute, phospho, PintassilgoPrints, Playtype, Process Type Foundry, R-Typography, R9 Type+Design, Renegadefonts, Revolver Type Foundry, Sandoll, Inc., Schriftlabor, Sharp Type Corporation, stabenfonts, Stawix Foundry, Studio Buchanan, Studio René Bieder, sugargliderz, The Designers Foundry, The Northern Block, TipografiaRamis, Tipografies, Tour de Force Font Foundry, Typearture, typecuts, Typedepot, Typedifferent, TypeMates, Typerepublic, TypeTogether, typic, Typogama, Typonauten, übertype, URW Type Foundry, Velvetyne Type Foundry, and Wiescher-Design.

Awarded with German Design Award (Special Mention), and Tokyo TDC Award.

Sprache als Ereignis – Ein allegorischer Liebesbrief

Students spent two semesters researching at the Faculty of Design of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences under the direction of by Professor Irmgard Sonnen and Dr. Kathrin Tillmanns with a comprehensive research and redesign of “Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand” by Heinrich Heine. The phenomena of standstill and movement, the rapid change of style and language levels, the crossing of genre boundaries, the principle of collage, the pairs of opposites were examined by means of corresponding design elements for typography, layout and visual language. Pictorial concepts were developed in the form of photographs or photomontages, always with the aim of creating a dialogical function to Heine’s texts, which open up their own level of reflection for the viewer. Media-specific designs were developed for the book as an object, the medium poster and a light installation.
Speakers: Prof.in Irmgard Sonnen, Dr. Kathrin Tillmanns
Students: Adriana Bareikyte, Wibke Bramesfeld, Sara Cesari, Katti Dehdari, Jill Alisa Fingerhut, Anna Gepting, Melissa Kappel, Lisa Köhler, Alexandra Korschefsky, Janna Rosin, Stephan Schröder, Nicole Szklarek, Janice Vering, Kira Wenzel, Ruven Wiegert
Book-Design: Lisa Köhler

Slanted Special Issue – Rwanda

Many asked us: Why the hell did you go to Rwanda and how did you even get the idea? To answer these questions, a little segue into the past is necessary. Way back in 2012 Lars Harmsen was sitting in the jury of the Design Award Rhineland-Palatinate, awarded by the descom Design forum Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2018 Julia Kahl has been invited to be part of the jury and it was there that she found out about the project to showcase Rhineland-Palatinatean design in Rwanda–and the other way around. To this end, descom has conceived an exhibition that has been implemented in cooperation with the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate/Rwanda (Jumelage) in Kigali and showed projects from both countries.

This project has gained our attention and we wanted to take a look at the up-and-coming creative scene in Rwanda ourselves. But the country also impressed us in other ways: Plastic bags? They are absolutely forbidden there since 2004. Environmental management is being decentralized from the political to the local level, leading to a widespread understanding on how to preserve the environment. On the last Saturday of the month, for example, every citizen is obliged to tidy up the streets. Since this year, no more old clothes from the West may be imported to Rwanda—this could create around 25,000 new jobs and the textile industry is flourishing.

To see a developing country implement and carry out such legislations is ground-breaking. It goes to show; anything can be possible if the political will really exists and true efforts are made. So, we have to say it again: Rwanda showed us how it’s done!

It’s now our honor to present a few outstanding personalities as well as many good stories besides some “design eye-candy” in this Slanted special issue.

Participants: Maggie Andresen, Timothy Wandulu / Concept Arts Studio, Mihir Bhatt / Creative Communications Rwanda, Abdi Latif Dahir, Carolin Dürrenberg und Silke Philipps-Deters / descom – Designforum Rheinland-Pfalz, Pierra Ntayombya / Haute Baso, Katharina Hey, Matthew Rugamba / House of Tayo, Innocent Nkurunziza / Inema Arts Center, Umuhire MweneMuntu Isaac, Judith Kaine / Kurema Kureba Kwiga, Jacques Nkinzingabo / Kigali Center for Photography, Niyunkuru Canda & Manzi Jackson / Kuuru Art Space, Moses Turahirwa / Moshions, Lynn Harles, Michael Nieden / Partnerschaftsverein Rheinland-Pfalz – Ruanda, Nelson Niyakire, Guillaume Sardin, Chris Schwagga, Daniel Sommer, The Economist

Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).

Awarded with ADC Award Germany (Gold), and ADC Award Europe.

Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography

100 years of Bauhaus
Typography from the 1920s
In 1929, ten years after the Bauhaus was founded, Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau launched the exhibition “New Typography.” László Moholy-Nagy, who had left Dessau the previous year and had earned a reputation as a designer in Berlin, was invited to exhibit his work together with other artists. He designed a room—entitled “Wohin geht die typografische Entwicklung?” (“Where is typography headed?”)—where he presented 78 wall charts illustrating the development of the “New Typography” since the turn of the century and extrapolating its possible future. To create these charts, he not only used his own designs, but also included advertising prints by colleagues associated with the Bauhaus.
The functional graphic design, initiated by the “New Typography” movement in the 1920s, broke with tradition and established a new advertising design based on artistic criteria. It aimed to achieve a modern look with standardized typefaces, industrial DIN norms, and adherence to such ideals as legibility, lucidity, and straightforwardness, in line with the key principles of constructivist art.
For the first time, this comprehensive publication showcases Moholy-Nagy’s wall charts which have recently been rediscovered in Berlin’s Kunstbibliothek. Renowned authors provide insights into this treasure trove by each contributing to this alphabetized compilation starting with “A” for “Asymmetry” and ending with “Z” for “Zukunftsvision” (“vision of the future”). By perusing through the pages and allowing a free flow of association, the typographical world of ideas of the 1920s avant-garde is once again brought back to life.

Balancieren auf dem Gedankenstrich

Between silence and talking.
A diary for thought space with calendar.
Can you balance on a dash? Communication designer Irmgard Sonnen shows that you can do it very well in this book, which stands, so to speak, between silence and speeches. Those who remain silent move in the field of tension between speech and silence. Silence is a strategy of how one would still like to be heard, and embodies a space of resonance in which others can notice that the silencer is silent because he is silent. What is silent could talk a lot. (Michael Kröger)
Irmgard Sonnen creates analogies worth reading about the unspeakable, the gap in memory, the void, the space in between. With texts by Heinrich Heine, Keinrich von Kleist, Christian Morgenstern, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Benjamin, Man Ray, Hans Brög, Karl Riha, Jürgen Kisters, Michael Kröger and many others as well as an epilogue by Wilhelm Schmid.

Anna Blume ist rot. Farbe als Ereignis

Positions, essays and poems on colors from the fields of art, poetry and psychology of perception are vividly and readably linked with one another.
The book contains statements and works by important representatives of Informel, Abstract Expressionism, Colour Field Painting and Action Painting.
With works by Yves Klein, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Ryman, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Gotthard Graubner, Katharina Grosse, Bernd Schwarzer and others.

Dieter Fuder. Der Funke der Semantik. Designtheorie als Erkenntnismethodik

For a period of two semesters a seminar worked on a congenial enquiry and reprocessing of both research and teaching of Prof. Dr. phil. Dieter Fuder (1947-2011).
The aim was to clarify the metareflexive view of his teaching. The dialogue of text and picture follows a logic which refers to the second view and invites to discourses. The photographs serve as catalysts for broader images.
“visualize what makes you think”
Dieter Fuder defined the sparks of semantics, the imaginary significant, as a blank in the image thus challenging the observer’s process of reflection transcending the mere transmission of information.
Project manager: Prof. Irmgard Sonnen
Photography: Kathrin Tillmanns (accr. Designer)
Students: Anna Gepting, Bianca Gorny, Kristina Hapich, Maja Hoffmann, Julia Kehlenbach, Daria Kruschinski, Letizia Margeritha, Sirin Simsek, Annika Strathmann, Tobias Textor

Visions of the Bauhaus Books. Exploring Connections to Contemporary Graphic Design Practice

The 14 Bauhaus books, edited by Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy, were published between 1925 and 1930. Their authors discussed design principles, practices, and science of art approaches from various perspectives. Johannes Rinkenburger examined and researched the contents and key concepts of this avant-garde series of books along with their backgrounds and context and deducts their useful application and importance to current design schools.
Based on design experiments, new links and correlations are established and methods shown that reveal and apply the legacy of Bauhaus, one of the historically most important design schools worldwide, to contemporary design. In the visual illustrations, which make up a large part of the publication, individual concepts and methods of the Bauhaus books are combined, contemplated on and implemented using today’s graphic design methods and techniques.

notamuse – A New Perspective on Women Graphic Designers in Europe

As a response to the predominantly male presence in the design scene, this book exclusively presents works by exceptional female designers. It is not about discovering something inherently “female” and defining “feminine” design, but to counter the male-dominated discourse of the sector. The carefully selected graphic works stand on their own and range from commissioned assignments via free artistic projects to the area of design research. They open new perspectives on how diverse contemporary graphic design can be.
This presentation is complemented by interviews conducted with 22 female designers, sociologists and design theorists. To shed light on the lacking visibility of women in the design sector, the editors especially focused on the design philosophy, perceptions, and ideals of the respective sectors and the experiences encountered in everyday work situations.

Play Life—Neighbors in the Western Balkans

People around the world define themselves again through an old phenomenon: nation states. The nation as a savior in a complex world. One’s own state is glorified and lowers other nations in an imaginary hierarchy. Historically, nation states are a young phenomenon. Only since the French Revolution have people sought identity in language, borders and nation. Before that, kings ruled over a multitude of countries and peoples. Many languages ​​were spoken in their territory and the population belonged to different religions. In absolutism, the king held the people together.

New political ideas and economic production approaches required new identification mechanisms. Language, race and border now formed a nation. National myths emerged that historically established this new definition of the state. The Germans used the war against France in 1871, a German king was proclaimed emperor—although in 1815 Germany still consisted of more than 39 states that united to form the German Confederation. The new states of the Western Balkans used similar approaches to define their national identity. Some built pseudo-historical buildings and sculptures to underline the historical existence of their nations, others used religion and reinterpretations of historical moments in the Balkans to substantiate their belief in the right to dominate other nations. Looked at from the outside, it looks like a mimicry of commonly used patterns for building nations—it looks like “Play Life.”

The Balkans have been multicultural for centuries. The different dynasties tolerated the mix of religions, languages ​​and traditions. The photographs in the book show seemingly casual everyday situations, but why 15 years after the Kosovo war is still the ruined Ministry of Defense in Belgrade? Why are over 2,000 new monuments in Skopje?

Only since the collapse of the Yugoslav Republic have nationalist forces established marginal differences as a pattern of separation. The most serious example of a nationalist reinterpretation is language. Serbo-Croatian has been a language with a grammatical system since the 18th century. Following the collapse of Yugoslavia, the successor states developed new names for politically motivated reasons: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. These can not be defined linguistically as mutually independent languages. Rather, it is about slightly different realizations of a macro language and thus de facto the same language system—Serbo-Croat.

Color and Type – Mehrfarbige Multi-Layer-Schriften entwerfen und anwenden

Multicolored-Multi-Layer-Fonts—never heard of? For several years now, courageous type designers have been mixing up “black art” with multi-color multi-layer fonts. Multicolored fonts use an extension of the OpenType format and bring color to reading.

So far, this has been an insider trend. But now Mark van Wageningen is presenting his research on multicolored fonts. He systematically examines how color and type interact. Which contrasts work how. How multicolour, form, style and legibility influence each other. And whether the whole thing also works in small font sizes for continuous text.

In a colourful typographic workshop, he imparts the know-how you need to design and apply multi-coloured fonts. Your key to completely new expressive possibilities in the design of type, typo and text. Analog and digital. Help shape the new mega-trend!

100 Whites

White not only plays an important role in Japanese culture in general but also in the work of designer Kenya Hara. In 100 Whites, Hara gives one hundred specific examples of white—such as snow, Iceland, rice, and wax. On the basis of these examples he discusses the importance of white in design—not only as a color but as a philosophy. Hara describes how he experiments with the different whites he mentions, what they mean in the process of his work, and how they influence design today.
100 Whites is the extension of his previously published book White. The new publication explores the essence of white, which Hara sees as symbolizing simplicity and subtlety.

The Monocle Guide to Shops, Kiosks and Markets

Revealing Monocle’s 100 favorite shops worldwide, from the independent fashion boutique to the department store that takes up a city block, this is a new practical guide complete with case studies, a collection of sharp essays, snappy interviews, contacts and tips – a toolbox for the retail-minded and those with their own shop in prospect. The Monocle Guide to Shops, Kiosks and Marketsis a handbook for the shopper and any aspiring shopkeeper, stocking a wealth of insight and inspiration. Now, may we show you around?

Monocle was launched by Tyler Brûlé in 2007 as a monthly magazine briefing on global affairs, business, culture, design, and much more. Today, Monocle is a complete, media brand with a suite of travel guides under its belt, a 24-hour radio station, a film-rich website, retail ventures around the globe, and cafés in Tokyo and London. Besides their London HQ they have seven international bureaux in New York, Toronto, Istanbul, Singapore, Tokyo, Zurich, and Hong Kong. At their core is the simple belief that there will always be a place for a print brand that is committed to telling fresh stories and sending photographers on assignments.

Limited Prague Special Edition / Photographic Newspaper + Czech Design Map

The Czechs are the most proficient beer drinkers in the world with 156 liters per capita and year. A good reason for photographer Dirk Gebhardt to capture Prague’s “drinking cathedrals”—yesterday bars with a mixture of brutal Tristesse and desperate reality. The photos are published in form of a newspaper in black and white, with an accompanying text by Jan Arndt as part of the Prague special edition.

Hodit Šavli—Throw the Saber

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Photographer: Dirk Gebhardt
Text: Jan Arndt
Volume: 48 pages
Format: 24 × 32 cm
ISBN: 978-3-9818296-8-6-6
Paper: Holmen TRND 1.6 52 g/m²
Print: Stober

Alongside this photographic journey, the Prague special edition contains a Czech Design Map—a practical printed map for design shopping. You can find an overview of 116 shops where you can buy tasteful gifts, Czech products, and local goods. The printed map has an online companion, so you can also search the map by city or location and find out which shops are closest to you.

Czech Design Map 2019

Publisher: Czech Design Map
Editors: Anna Štysová, Kateřina Novotná
Format: 13 × 21 cm (folded), 61 × 21 cm (opened)