Yearbook of Lettering #2

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

After the overwhelming success of the first edition—with 134 artists from 35 countries, glowing press coverage, and enthusiastic buzz across social media—the Yearbook of Lettering is back for round two!

The Yearbook of Lettering #2 is showcasing the most impressive lettering artwork from around the world—ranging from elegant calligraphy to bold street art and graffiti. Each featured artist receives at least one full page dedicated entirely to their work, allowing the visuals to speak for themselves. The clean, open layout puts the spotlight on the letterforms, giving every unique style and technique room to shine. A standout feature of this edition is the comprehensive index, packed with key details—artist bios, style descriptions, materials used, and contact info—clearly organized in alphabetical order for easy reference. The book is aimed at designers, design agencies or simply people who are passionate about the vibrant world of contemporary lettering.

The Yearbook of Lettering #2 is both an inspirational showcase and a practical guide to discovering the perfect artist or style for a new project, as well as a source of inspiration for artists and enthusiasts.

 

Imagine—Embracing Chaos and Possibility in a Planetary Emergency

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

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

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

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

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Typodarium 2026

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

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

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

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

Alphabetical Playground

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

Following the success of Letterform Variations, Nigel Cottier presents a study into the alphabet as medium in his new book Alphabetical Playground. From this has emerged a catalogue of numerous alphabets and letterforms (estimated at around 7,000 unique letterforms), all created using a series of systems, codes and themes to generate expression and form within the confines of the alphabetic code. With a theme or system for each letter of the alphabet, the book is an exploration into systems within systems, a code within a code.

Alphabetical Playground—an alphabetical system where each letterform can contain multiple letters within it, so a single piece of text can in fact contain multiple messages.

Photodarium 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colors on the screen may differ from the original.

Grafikmagazin 04.25

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

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

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

Sense of Space – Preposition of Place

We go inside first, decide what kind of world we want to experience and then project that world outside making it the truth as we experience it.

This book attempts to explore how people locate themselves vis-a-vis others, objects and things within a time-space continuum. Furthermore, it contextually sheds light on the correlation between space embedded meanings and the sense of place. In this book, the preposition of place takes a closer examination of the relations between objects and things through the lens of meaning reconfiguring moves and interactions in time and space. The relations between entities/objects/things offers bi-directional insights into orientations as is impacted by emotional, perceptional and preferential state of worlding among other attributes that direct people‘s positioning within contexts. The project Prepositions of Place that emerges as key within this book follows and attends to questions of how people, structures and landscapes spatially affect one another? What relations and meaning emerge and sub­merge within space–be it natural or artificial? In the process, visual signs, the (re)emergence of infrastructures and contextual speech reshape the building blocks for place making.

Through artistic works and lens, the project metaphorically and figuratively express how personal senses from sight, touch and hearing collapse and combine to orient individuals in space and time. The relation of individuals through the space-time continuum also offers external stimuli to contrive and build an immersive spatial experience.

Solidaritäten transformieren. Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft

Our present is marked by upheaval, crises, and challenges. Pandemics and wars are challenging our societies. Climate change and digitalization are fundamentally altering the way we live together. The reality of global mobility and migration societies requires us to rethink democracy and belonging. The global wave of disengagement calls on everyone to redefine their relationships with one another. But what practices and infrastructures are necessary for a migration society? Since 2021, the Transforming Solidarities research project has been investigating this question in the fields of work, health, and housing. The Migration Society Laboratory in Berlin examined how solidarity can provide the necessary answers to these challenges. And: how these are negotiated, enabled, or prevented. This volume presents the results of the research project, theoretical considerations on solidarity, forms of desolidarization, reflections on methodological and solidarity practices, investigations of infrastructures of solidarity, and suggestions for developing new solidarity practices. Thirty-five concise essays examine solidarity as a transformative force from different perspectives.
With contributions by Moritz Ahlert, Moritz Altenried, Konstantin Atanassow, Céline Barry, Alexander Behr, Asita Behzadi, Manuela Bojadžijev, Wendy Brown, Robin Celikates, İlker Eğilmez, Anujah Fernando, Stefan Gosepath, Sabine Hark, Janno Himpel, Judith Holz, Rahel Jaeggi, Jennifer Kamau, Bernd Kasparek, Ulrike Kluge, Stephan Lessenich, Catherine Lu, Sowmya Maheswaran, Paul Mecheril, Hanna Meißner, Sandro Mezzadra, Mihaela Mihai, Brett Neilson, Llanquiray Painemal, Simone Penka, David Permantier, Patrice G. Poutrus, Christian Schmidt, Kirsten Schubert, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Susanne Schultz, Antonia Sieler, Anna Steigemann, Andrea Steinke, Ronja Wagner, Antonia Welch Guerra, Veronika Zablotsky.

The Water Runs Through Us. Experimental Water Filtration Systems and Practices

Think back to an experience in your life you shared with water. Were you caught in the rain? Swimming in the ocean? Walking on a frozen lake?
Technology is only part of the answer to our challenges with water. What’s missing is our relationship with water. How will life change as our relationship to water transforms? How might our participation in urban hydrology nudge society toward an ecological balance? How can we be radical dreamers of utopia while keeping our feet on the ground, or in the water, as it may be?
This book shares the story of organic water filtration systems and other practices relating to water at Floating University Berlin. The manuscript flows through strategies and manuals, oral histories and infrastructures concerning the four main types of water filtered on site: rainwater, basin water, blackwater, and the many shades of greywater. Embedded in the literary representation of Floating University’s public pedagogy, this text collection includes artifacts of seminars, workshops, performances, practices, and discussions that ruminate on our position in the water cycle.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

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Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a visual journey into the vibrant heart of Egypt’s creative scene. The dynamic design culture of Cairo—and beyond—reveals just how diverse, innovative, and powerful creative voices in Egypt are today.

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

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a compelling portrait of a design scene in motion—bold, diverse, and brimming with fresh perspectives. On our trip to Cairo, we conducted numerous interviews with people from the creative industries, which are being edited into a film by the design studio NTSAL. It will be available for free at launch on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

Void—Reflections

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

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

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

Queer Horses

Stef Mosebach describes themselves as a former horse girl and queer person. In this work Queer Horses, Stef combines vintage horse postcards with codes and slang from the queer community. Sounds curious? It is!

The result is a postcard book with a good pinch of self-irony and a proper wink at the elitist habitus of both scenes. A declaration of love to queer culture—and horses!

Propaganda nutzen!

Finally being able to talk like Donald Trump? The manual Propaganda nutzen! provides an introduction to the techniques of political agitation by means of exercises, checklists, and online coaching. Learn how to devalue your opponent, divide society, distort the opinions of others, and distract from your own problems and failings.

Political protagonists try to influence public opinion in their favor through targeted media manipulation. In doing so, they use various propaganda techniques which the public often does not recognize without professional research or sufficient background knowledge. The result is deliberate disinformation.

Designed by Yannik Schäfer, this book deftly traces the fine line between irony and bitter seriousness by instructing readers on how to become propagandists themselves with the help of practical exercises. The aim of the manual is to allow us to unmask such manipulation in everyday life, by increasing our understanding of the underlying methodology and argumentation techniques.

Laura Gaiser: Animal

With her artistic practice, Laura Gaiser establishes fluid, collective, queer and eco-feminist narratives. Her works understand the world not from a human-centered approach, but from multiple perspectives of biodiversity. Through symbolism and juxtapositions, her authentic visual language speaks of the depth of human psychology and appeals to the subconscious of its viewers. The unspeakable, the unexpected, the desired and the undesired merge into a half-real, half-dreamed reality. Portraying non-humans, humans, animals, and species blending together mostly in public spaces, her body of work is creating contemporary mythologies.

Further 04

The Fotobus Society, founded by Christoph Bangert, is a network comprising of over 1,300 photographers studying at German, European and international media and photography schools. The society offers its members an extensive range of cultural and social activities. At the heart of the community is a 30-year-old bus that regularly takes members to photo festivals, symposia and specialist events, and also doubles as a mobile photography school.

The book is the fourth volume in a series that showcases selected works by the members and thus provides a fascinating insight into the world of young photography. Creating images is a means of discovering one’s surroundings, raising awareness of social problems and questioning one’s own personality. The past two years have severely unsettled some of the certainties of the Global North that were thought to be unshakeable. Now more than ever, the members of the Fotobus Society have found it pressing to network with each other and seek community. The selected works celebrate the power of storytelling while underscoring the responsibility that storytellers have in so doing.

With works by: Aaron Leithäuser, Ali Zaraay, Amelie Sachs, Anne Braune, Arne Piepke, Aslı Özçelik, Calvin Hein, Calvin Thomas, Carlotta Steinkamp, Cynthia Ruf, Daša Geiger, Edith Geuppert, Eyad Abou Kasem, Fabian Niebauer, Fabian Schwarze, Finn Winkler, Hugo Hilpmann, Jan Richard Heinicke, Jan A. Staiger, Lasse Branding, Lea Greub, Lukas van Bentum, Magdalena Vidovic, Magnus Terhorst, Malte Uchtmann, Manu Gruber, Margarita V. Beltran, Marie Schwarze, Markus Heft, Massimiliano Corteselli, Mathis Bauer, Nalani Knauss, Nick Jaussi, Nikita Pohlan, Nora Schwarz, Paul Stender, Ragna Arndt-Marić, Raquel Gandra, Sarah Johanna Köster, Saskia Stöhr, Solveig Eichner, Stefan Nieland, Tamara Eckhardt, Tanya Tkachova, Tizian Machtolf

Carlotta Guerra: Like we could almost live forever

With her project Like we could almost live forever, Carlotta Guerra (*1976) invites us on a visual and emotional journey. The photographs, taken in Italy and North America, draw on her family heritage and create a tapestry of personal memories, experiences, impressions, and emotions. Aware that our limited time in life makes our encounters precious and unique, Guerra collects photographic moments, which she arranges like tiny pieces of a vast puzzle into a narrative full of expressive and associative power.

This collection encourages us to explore the magic and the sorrows of life, from the simplest to the most significant moments of everyday existence.

Flexible Visual Systems

Also available as an ebook in bookstores and on all common platforms.

Flexible Visual Systems sums up 10 years of research at the University of Barcelona, 20 years of developing systems at TwoPoints.Net and 18 years of teaching systems at over 10 design universities throughout Europe on 320 pages.

Flexible Visual Systems is the design manual for contemporary visual identities. It teaches you a variety of approaches on how to design flexible systems, adjustable to any aesthetic or project in need of an identifiable visual language.

To learn how to design flexible systems is not just learning another craft, it is going to change the way you think and work entirely. It is an approach, how to design. If you would place system design into a curriculum it would be the foundation course, putting you in the right mindset. You can apply the systemic approach to any discipline you will later specialize in, from corporate design, communication design, user experience design to textile design.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part is a richly illustrated theoretic introduction (82 pages) explaining the past, present and future of flexible systems. It describes how they were used in the past, how they are used today and why they should not just organize formal solutions, but the way how we work.

The second part is a hands-on, almost purely visual, description of how to design flexible systems on form, starting with a circle, triangle, square, pentagon and hexagon. Lots of instruction manuals and examples on how to use them on 148 pages!

The third part explains how transformation processes can become flexible systems for visual identities. Especially creative coders, motion designers and people who love to experiment will have a lot of fun with this chapter!

“It is a reference work for systematic and flexible visual work. And at the same time, it speaks of a great much of practical experience.[Es ist ein Basiswerk zu systematischen und flexiblen visuellen Arbeiten. Und gleichzeitig spricht daraus sehr viel praktische Erfahrung.]”
TGM-ONLINE.DE, Rudolf Paulus Gorbach

Awarded with ADC Award Germany (Bronze)
6th revised edition

Moments of Meaning-Making – On Anachronism, Becoming, and Conceptualizing

Moments of Meaning-Making – On Anachronism, Becoming, and Conceptualizing by Mieke Bal (1946), a Dutch theorist, video artist, well-known writer and feminist. She has been a Professor in Literary Theory (University of Amsterdam). In 1994 she was a co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Bal has been teaching at many institutes and universities in Europe, US, and beyond. She is known for her specific ways of ‘deep-reading’ artworks (e.g. Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Louise Bourgeois, Nalini Malani), and intertwining her research with various disciplines, such as contemporary and nineteenth-century literature, psycho-analysis, gender studies, philosophy, bible studies. Bal also works as a video artist, which she approaches as a specific form of cultural analysis.

Now that Mieke Bal is getting older —being very active and involved in many art and research projects— she has been ruminating on how to reflect on a full life with different roles and experiences. She did not want to write a navel-staring autobiography and came up with an ABC of Memories, and the concepts these have generated: key terms that have a specific value to her, that interlink as a mesh of meaning, weaving together daily experiences and teaching, her know-how to art making, to the core concepts of her analytical work.

Supported by: Jaap Harten Fonds

Poster »Open Doors«

Open Doors—a 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.

Grafikmagazin 03.25

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

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

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

Generative KI und die Künste

Since the surprising breakthrough of generative AI models, the old debate about artificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips, although the associated discussion is often surprisingly undifferentiated; the talk is then of ’the’ AI and what its emergence means for ’us’ – and of course also of ‘its’ (many) dangers. It is not surprising that phrases such as ‘AI is the future’ are not too far off the mark, usually accompanied by a warning not to miss out. What to do with a ‘stochastic parrot’ that can paint, write poetry and compose?
Based on the observation that ’AI is the present’, Merz Akademie lecturer Jürgen Riethmüller attempts to remedy this deficit a little from a cultural theory perspective in Generative KI und die Künste by focussing entirely on the question of the future role of generative AI models in the arts. Surprisingly, the strengths of these applications seem to lie particularly in the fictional area of (transmedial) ‘invented images’.
Book in German language.

Des Dodos neue Territorien – Potenziale der Illustration in Zeiten der KI

We are experiencing an upheaval in the visual arts that has rarely been seen before: artificial intelligence is becoming the catalyst for a creative renaissance that is both expanding the possibilities of artistic design and redefining the role of the artist and copyright. Prof Florian Bayer examines this profound change in Des Dodos neue Territorien – Potenziale der Illustration in Zeiten der KI.
In the second volume of edition orange, edited by Barbara M. Eggert, Florian Bayer explores the boundaries between critical discourse and visionary thinking for illustration at the interface between individual artistic creation and collectively available AI technology. The professor of illustration defines the ability for ‘adaptive transformation and strategic repositioning’ as another key skill for designers.
Book in German language.