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 “Design & AI.” 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.
Grafikmagazin 01.26
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 “Signage for Museums.” 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.
Unfollow the Leader
Student perspectives on the graphic design canon. Edited by Hugo Puttaert.
In a culture driven by speed, visibility and algorithms, what does it mean to design today? Unfollow the Leader explores the changing position of the graphic designer in a world shaped by digital platforms, economic logics and artificial intelligence. Developed in an educational context and rooted in student work, the book traces the tensions between craft and technology, autonomy and dependency, tradition and disruption.
Moving between history and contemporary practice, it argues that the essence of design lies not in form, but in attitude: the willingness to question what seems self-evident.
Breakout #2—100 Posters
Please note: This is a pre-order only, the book gets shipped once published in May 2026.
Breakout #2 takes Tamti’s early explorations into real-world projects from 2022 to 2025, building on the success of Homebound, New Wave, and Breakout—100 Posters. Cihan Tamti originally started Breakout as a personal experiment—treating Instagram like a graphic design gym and creating a poster every day. Without briefs or constraints, he explored typography, lettering, illustration, layouts, and bold visual ideas. Some of these early works won awards and attracted clients, eventually leading to the publication of Breakout—100 Posters, a book compiling 100 formative pieces.
In Breakout #2—100 Posters, these early experiments evolve into a wider range of projects: commissioned work for clients, community initiatives like the “Local Support Posters” launched during the covid pandemic, and collaborative projects with other designers. The book presents all posters equally, showcasing a broad spectrum of graphic design techniques and approaches. Breakout #2—100 Posters gathers 100 selected works that demonstrate how thoughtful, original design can communicate powerfully across contexts and inspire creative freedom.
Alongside the standard edition of Breakout #2—100 Posters, a small number of exclusive limited bundles are available. Each bundle includes the book paired with additional pieces that extend the project beyond print—such as a screen-printed tote bag and, in the full edition, the custom Yolcu typeface. With only 50 bundles produced, this is a one-time release. Explore the limited bundles while they are still available.
Limited Bundles: Breakout #2—100 Posters
Please note: This is a pre-order only, the bundles get shipped once the book is published in May 2026.
Two exclusive limited bundles accompany the release of Breakout #2—100 Posters, offering a rare opportunity to experience the project beyond the book itself. Strictly limited to only 50 pieces, these bundles extend the visual language of the publication into physical and digital forms—each one designed as a collectible for those closely connected to the work.
Breakout #2—100 Posters
Breakout #2 takes Tamti’s early explorations into real-world projects from 2022 to 2025, building on the success of Homebound, New Wave, and Breakout—100 Posters. Cihan Tamti originally started Breakout as a personal experiment—treating Instagram like a graphic design gym and creating a poster every day. Without briefs or constraints, he explored typography, lettering, illustration, layouts, and bold visual ideas. Some of these early works won awards and attracted clients, eventually leading to the publication of Breakout—100 Posters, a book compiling 100 formative pieces.
In Breakout #2—100 Posters, these early experiments evolve into a wider range of projects: commissioned work for clients, community initiatives like the “Local Support Posters” launched during the covid pandemic, and collaborative projects with other designers. The book presents all posters equally, showcasing a broad spectrum of graphic design techniques and approaches. Breakout #2—100 Posters gathers 100 selected works that demonstrate how thoughtful, original design can communicate powerfully across contexts and inspire creative freedom.
Tote Bag—Breakout #2
Limited Bundle Book + Bag
Screen printed in Bochum by STICE using a two-color silkscreen process, only 50 bags were produced. The tote bag features a composition of graphics taken directly from the posters included in Breakout #2. Developed for cultural institutions, initiatives, companies, and socially engaged projects, these works originate from real-world contexts and, in many cases, were placed in public space. For the bag, selected fragments are extracted and combined into a new layout, printed in red and blue.
The result is a direct transfer from poster to object, maintaining the visual language of the publication. Produced as an oversized tote, the bag offers generous capacity and is suited for carrying books, prints, and daily essentials.
Size: 47 × 40 × 17 cm
Capacity: 31 litres
Material: Cotton / Canvas
Handle length: 72cm
Print: 2-color silkscreen (STICE, Bochum)
Weight: approx. 560g
Typeface Yolcu
Limited Bundle Book + Bag + Font
Yolcu is a grid-based display typeface defined by rounded forms within a strict underlying structure.
Each letter is constructed on a rigid grid, resulting in a clear and controlled appearance. The shapes are inspired by racetracks seen from an aerial perspective, translating curves, turns, and continuous paths into typographic forms. The name Yolcu, Turkish for traveler, reflects this idea of movement and direction. Letters follow paths rather than fixed outlines, creating a visual language that suggests flow and navigation. The contrast between strict construction and soft, rounded shapes gives the typeface a precise yet dynamic character. This balance makes it suitable for both digital applications and physical contexts such as print and streetwear.
Designed as a display typeface, Yolcu is best used for headlines and logotypes.
Design: Cihan Tamti
Format: OTF
Style: 1 weight
New Design from Düsseldorf 2026
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New Design from Düsseldorf, organized by the Faculty of Design of the Peter Behrens School of Arts at Hochschule Düsseldorf–University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with design (from) düsseldorf, presents around 50 nominated projects by graduates of the programs in New Craft Object Design, Communication Design, Retail Design, and Exhibition Design. The exhibition takes place at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, and the accompanying catalog documents and reflects on the presented works, highlighting the innovative design thinking emerging from Düsseldorf.
The projects engage with contemporary social issues—such as identity, gender, feminism, sustainability, education, and science—through experimental and artistic approaches. In doing so, the role of design and the impact of its methods are continuously examined, critically reassessed, and reinterpreted within a rapidly evolving society, with the aim of addressing societal questions and creating new spaces for reflection.
The catalog includes forewords and an essay on the exhibition design process, in which students developed and realized sustainable exhibition furniture specifically conceived for the presentation. In addition, it features project descriptions by the exhibiting graduates, offering insight into their individual concepts, methods, and positions, while celebrating the breadth and quality of design being developed in Düsseldorf today.
Trauma and Affect – (Mis)Understanding Pain in Art and Culture
Trauma and Affect: both concepts have become increasingly important in the critique of art, literature, and of culture in general, since the 1990s. In those years, a turn to trauma and a bit later also to affect took place. The concepts were being used in a great variety of ways, and in many disciplines and domains, such as queer studies, feminism, cultural analysis, art critique, literary studies and postcolonial studies, as well as in disciplines such as sociology, and even in economics. Although the gain of this turn to affect and trauma is interesting, it has also resulted in major confusion; the terms have been overused and exhausted, and thus lost their power.
Ernst van Alphen looks at both trauma and affect through the lens of visual artworks and literature, drawing from many sources and disciplines. In the first part of this book, devoted to trauma, he explains how trauma originates in the past and what explains its re-enactment in the present. This assessment of trauma, of how it originates and manifests itself, is necessary in order to restore its critical power as a concept. The second part is devoted to the transmission of affect. In order to prompt reflection beyond affective responses that result in immediate strong emotions, he discusses artists who develop strategies that process affect into critical making and thinking.
Artists and writers discussed: Vasily Aksyonov, Armando, Francis Bacon, Christian Boltanski, Tadeusz Borowski, Dmitry Bykov, Charlotte Delbo, Carl Friedman, Yevgenia Ginzburg, Félix González-Torres, Eva Hoffman, Roni Horn, Ram Katzir, Zbigniew Libera, David Levinthal, Steve McQueen, Ronald Ophuis, Roee Rosen, Douglas Sirk, Andrew Wyeth, Artur Żmijewski, Andrey Zvyagintsev, and many others.
nomad 16 — Traveling
This issue of nomad delves into the profound impact of travel, exploring personal choices and inspirations. With two striking covers by Lord Norman Foster and RELVĀOKELLERMANN, the edition illuminates how travel shapes our worldview.
Inside, readers will find insights from Lord Norman Foster, whose pioneering work at the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities continues to redefine urban living spaces. Provocative perspectives from Matteo Thun on the future of design and Liam Young’s futuristic expeditions with the Unknown Fields studio offer thought-provoking insights. Claus Sendlinger discusses the importance of slow travel and sustainable tourism, while the Vianello family shares their eco-friendly camping ethos on the Adriatic.
Educational journeys with Chris Taylor’s Land Arts of the American West and Kalyani Tupkary’s alternative conceptions of time provide further depth. Swedish architect Helena Glantz explores the enduring appeal of brick, emphasizing its sustainability and the human connection to this timeless material. Camilla D. Fischbacher candidly shares the trials and triumphs of transforming a traditional family-run textile business, and Rolf Benz celebrates a 60-year legacy.
Ana Relvão and Gerhardt Kellermann advocate for an outsider’s approach to design, prioritising user needs and problem-solving over personal taste, and embracing the dynamic nature of the design field. Through these compelling narratives nomad showcases how travel fosters deeper connections between people, nature and culture.
What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest
What was design? is a quick starter to one of modernity’s most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, “design” was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question “What is design?” are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective. This book looks back, presenting a century of design thinking in its most compact form: a collection of bold quotes.
What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest pits 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists, and philosophers against one another. The result is a web of radical short-form definitions that remain strikingly contradictory in their references. This selection is accompanied by an essay from Florian Walzel, exploring the deeper reasons behind the conceptual ambiguity of design.
25 JAHRE OBERFLÄCHLICH MIT TIEFGANG
For more than two decades, DIE TYPONAUTEN have been designing with depth. They accompany companies—especially in the energy and utilities sector—as strategic partners for communication and design. DIE TYPONAUTEN develop compelling concepts, make complex content understandable, and execute it with the highest standards of quality and precision—from corporate design and brand communication to quality-assured document management.
25 JAHRE OBERFLÄCHLICH MIT TIEFGANG presents a selection of their previous projects. It tells the story of what drives DIE TYPONAUTEN: a profound commitment to design, a love for the craft, and the conviction that communication must follow a clear line.
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PLOP #01—Polish Design Revue
Is Polish design polished—or is polish the design? PLOP—Polish Design Revue explores the tension between Polish identity, global aesthetics, and the endless act of polishing. Through sharp questions and critical perspectives, this quarterly revue investigates what happens when Polish design becomes polished, overpolished, depolished—or something entirely new.
Published by Slanted Publishers in collaboration with Three Dots Type Foundry and the Polish Graphic Design Foundation, PLOP invites readers to rethink authorship, style, quality, and cultural context in contemporary Polish graphic design. The first issue features works by Martyna Wędzicka, Kuki Iwański, and Paweł Mildner, an essay by Aleksandra Tulibacka, and edgy forms of the Radius typeface.
PLOP is a thought-provoking snapshot of current debates in Polish visual culture—questioning whether polish enhances identity or erases it.
Lustwandeln. Für Flaneure und Landstreicher
“I always return to my images. They are an eternal possession, detached from the vicissitudes of life, something laid aside for the bad days,” writes the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.
This is how the communication designer, professor, and editor Irmgard Sonnen begins her book with the inspiring title: Lustwandeln. Für Flaneure und Landstreicher. Szenarien eines Spaziergangs.
With this book, Irmgard Sonnen encourages and inspires readers to go outside. Lustwandeln. Für Flaneure und Landstreicher. Szenarien eines Spaziergangs takes the reader and viewer along paths leading to sources of inspiration, landscapes, and seas. Cities, too, with their distinctive atmospheres, can be discovered as landscapes. The selected short texts from the field of cultural studies reflect on the semantic realms of existence, path, journey, home, foreignness, silence, departure, arrival, and the many facets of perceiving the city. To stroll in the city means to move slowly in an accelerated world, to set oneself apart while simultaneously sharpening one’s perception of details. A familiar detail is transformed into something special. “People who go for walks are already slower simply through the use of their feet—and since they walk because they feel like it, not in order to arrive, they are temporally unpredictable,” says the walk scholar Lucius Burckhardt.
It is precisely the dialogue between text and image that is particularly stimulating in this book. Concrete information about individual places and landscapes can be found in an additional marginal column. The landscape and city views are not merely interpretations of reality, but also traces—like a footprint.
“My footprints will accompany and guide you through this book,” writes Irmgard Sonnen. The texts repeatedly attempt to view familiar subjects differently in order to reveal new perspectives of perception. Thus we read in Michel de Montaigne: “My thoughts fall asleep when I sit. My mind does not move forward unless my legs set it in motion.”
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools
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Slanted Magazine #47–Digital Tools examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice. This issue offers a diverse insight into the global creative scene and uses numerous examples to show how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself.
The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to indispensable utilities that shape creative digital and analog workflows, continuously expanding and redefining creative boundaries. Slanted Magazine #47–Digital Tools covers disciplines such as graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding. Designers, artists, and developers share their insights in interviews and articles, explaining how digital tools shape their aesthetics, imagination, and authorship.
By introducing new workflows and technologies, Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools inspires both experienced designers and beginners to explore the creative potential of digital design.
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Buchräume öffnen Denkräume
Editorial Design – Teaching and Research. Retrospective.
In “Opening Book Spaces – Opening Thinking Spaces” the experienced book designer documents a total of 14 book projects from 44 active professional years, including three teaching and research projects for which she served as initiator, editor, and publisher.
Contributions by Bettina Schulz, Petra Kammann, Florian Fischer, Elke Bludau, and many other authors complement the volume, offering a variety of viewpoints and perspectives.
Text-image dialogues are central questions in design. The dramaturgical planning of page sequences corresponds to a form of directing. The theoretical exploration and condensation of a subject, as well as the development of conceptual frameworks as design parameters, form a particular focus of her teaching. Book spaces can open spaces for thought—page by page. Successful design concepts are fundamentally shaped by these processes.
Buchräume öffnen Denkräume provides stimulation and inspiration for emerging and practicing designers to remain engaged with their own fields of research and to preserve sufficient creative freedom.
In the Absence of Bombs—Art, War, and Silence
What happens when violence unfolds before our eyes, yet responses hesitate and waver? When institutions—political, academic, cultural—retreat into silence, and even committed artists falter in the face of war.
In the Absence of Bombs investigates this silence. In a time when horror is livestreamed and apathy is institutionalized, this book asks how such paralysis is possible—and how art can contribute to recognition of the unfolding crimes against humanity. How do poets, visual artists, theatre and filmmakers unsettle the spectacle of shock? How can grief become a collective and political force, rather than a privatized void?
Through testimonies from war zones—from Gaza to Kharkiv, Beirut to Brussels—this book composes a polyphonic response to a world that demands clarity but offers none. It does not moralize. It insists. On mourning. On commitment.
Contributors: Amir Ashkar, Jan Beddegenoodts, Yousra Benfquih, Marlies De Munck, Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin, Lara García Diaz, Pascal Gielen, Mohamed Hijji, Erwin Jans, Mazen Kerbaj, Lara Khaldi, Maha Maamoun, Sohail Salem, Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi, Bahia Shehab, Walid Taher, Jana Traboulsi, Emily Van Driessen, Annelys de Vet.
Valiz supported by Vfonds and Mondriaan Fund
Play the System—Parametric Approaches in Graphic Design
In graphic design, the focus is rarely on the spontaneous stroke of genius—it’s rather about a process-oriented approach to design. Digital tools, algorithms, and systems increasingly shape not only the final outcome but also the process itself. As a result, the role of the designer is changing: instead of crafting every detail, they increasingly design the framework in which design emerges.
Over more than twenty years of teaching, Heike Grebin has developed an approach centered on this shift. Its main appeal lies in developing dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process. Design is generated by a set of specifications whose effects can be explored, varied, and used creatively—this is parametric design.
Play the System demonstrates, through selected examples from design history and academic teaching, how even minimal changes to individual parameters such as size, color, spacing, or movement—driven by input values, chance, or external influences—lead to different outcomes and open up space for variation, experimentation, and surprise.
Conversations with designers, programmers, and researchers such as Luna Maurer, Anja Groten, Frieder Nake, and Tom Bieling address key questions: How do systems foster—or limit—creativity? How do tools influence aesthetic decisions? And how can design respond to the structures of society itself?
As a hybrid publication, Play the System operates systemically itself. The website ↗ www.play-the-system.xyz complements the book with additional content and serves as the central data source for all projects published through an automated web-to-print process.
Play the System is a reader, an introduction, and a richly illustrated archive—all in one. Bringing together theory, education, and practice, it makes system-based and parametric design accessible to readers beyond the design discipline.
What a discovery: a book about systems in design that also refers to philosophy, music, mathematics, and literature. Full of encouragement and inspiration to research, learn, and experiment.
Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, tgm-online.de
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Solomiya, No. 5—After Now
Now in its twelfth year, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has transformed from a singular rupture into an enduring state of crisis; from a suspension of law into a law of suspension. At a moment when grief and anger dominate public and private life, envisioning the future can feel out of reach.
Solomiya No. 5—After Now reflects on hope and freedom not as a triumph, but as a complex, often compromised condition, entangled in inequality, shaped by trauma, and co-opted by power. By gathering voices from Yemen to Ukraine, from Georgia to Germany, we turn our attention to the present, to the conditions shaping the paths that futures may follow.
With contributions from 21 artists, journalists and scientists, we navigate the deadlocks of communication and the paradox of imagining a post-war future within ongoing war. They hold space for doubt, contradiction, and the possibility of being wrong—through testimonies of soldiers and veterans, and expressions of embodied experiences of dancers, imagined chess figures, dopamine supermen, astronauts, and dried watermelons.
Mensch. Raum. Geschichte.
Mensch. Raum. Geschichte. is the publication accompanying the Photographic Collection of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf.
The volume offers, for the first time, a comprehensive insight into a collection that brings together photography from its beginnings to the present day—ranging from commissioned work and private family photographs to artistic practices. Images from different periods and contexts enter into a visual dialogue, opening up perspectives on urban history, city life, social participation, and the medium of photography itself.
Accompanying texts by various authors reflect on the collection as a historically evolved visual memory and critically examine the processes of collecting and image production.
Invisible City
What remains of a colonial past when it disappears from the cityscape, is distorted in the archive – or reappears as a staged backdrop?
Invisible City is a visual investigation in the Chinese metropolis of Qingdao. Starting from a colonial photographic archive, Jimmi Wing Ka Ho traces the visible and invisible legacies of German colonial rule—from restored Wilhelminian villas to the myth-laden sewage systems beneath the city. The city itself becomes an archive in which history vanishes, is rewritten – and yet continues to shape the present.
45 Symbols—Clay to Code
How can research findings, personal experiences, and complex ideas be translated into a concise visual identity?
45 Symbols—Clay to Code examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to a visual language, inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history: the 3,700-year-old, still-undeciphered Phaistos Disc, embossed with 45 distinct symbols. The works present a range from personal narratives to global themes and demonstrate how an original visual grammar can be constructed.
Over more than a decade, the internationally hosted design seminar series The Phaistos Project—Forty-five Symbols have evolved into a global community—driven by open calls, workshops, exhibitions, and risograph publications. This volume, 45 Symbols—Clay to Code, brings together over 2,000 symbols as the result of this collaborative endeavor. It stands not only as a living archive of research inquiries but also as a testament to collective experimentation, bold visions, and the expression of intercultural dialogue.
The contributions are organized into five thematic fields:
I. Traces of everyday life, material culture, and the domestic archive
II. Planetary surfaces, landscape as archive, and the ecological memory of the Anthropocene
III. Politics of language, symbols of protest, and collective transformation
IV. Cultural scripts, spiritual codes, and visual identity
V. Speculative alphabets, linguistic flux, and future archives
This book aims to both inspire and provide hands-on methods for developing skills in visual storytelling, documentation, and reflection practice that foster authentic, systematic, and distinctive personal outcomes.
This book will serve as a primary reference for decades … We see the transition from physical clay to digital code clearly. The book captures this linguistic flux perfectly.
WE AND THE COLOR
However, the entire project reflects diverse ways of thinking and thought processes in the most astonishing graphic manifestations, making it not only interesting but also extremely enjoyable to read and look at.
Rudolf Paulus Gorbach, tgm-online.de
Grafikmagazin 06.25
As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months. The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like “Corporate Publishing.” The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.
The extensive “Showroom” section lets readers know other creatives and the stories behind design studios worldwide. The “Design and Research” category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the “Production and Publishing” section, everything revolves around print. You will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports, and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.
Each cover is printed on a different paper, and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme more broadly or shares a fresh perspective on a unique design technique. The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents, and freelancers are bound and driven by the firm belief that print is not dead. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.
Belles Mômes
Belles Mômes by Clélia Odette interweaves portraits and thoughts of various women into an honest encounter with the aging female body, revealing its natural beauty in all its complexity and depth.
The book tells of insecurities, doubts, courage and self-empowerment, breaks with patriarchal ideas and taboos and celebrates traces of aging as a carrier of stories and experiences – and as a symbol of strength. An intimate and powerful plea for visibility and the right to be seen in one’s own body.