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Grafikmagazin 05.25

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.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

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 have been edited into the short film Cairo Unscripted—Exploring Cairo’s Past, Present, and Creative Future by design studio Ntsal. It is available for free on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

To mark the release of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we’re launching a special edition with five stunning photo prints by Markus Lange, as well as a striking hoodie collaboration with Reell and Negmedine Khaled—subscribe to Slanted and keep the creative journey going.

We are absolutely in love with the journey we have taken thanks to this book. The alternation between graphic elements such as images and illustrations and columns of text make this publication an object in itself that is worth holding in your hands.
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Arabic Scripts: Limited Hoodie + Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

On the occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we teamed up with fashion brand Reell and artist Negmedine Khaled to create a unique high-quality hoodie with a white silkscreen print presenting the beauty of the Arabic scripts. It is limited to only 100 pieces and is a real statement piece.

About the artist
Negmedine Khaled, born in 1996, is an accomplished Arab artist specializing in Arabic calligraphy. His exceptional talent in this art form stems from his deep passion and dedication to self-learning. From a young age, Negmedine showed a special interest in Arabic calligraphy, dedicating significant time to developing his skills independently, without formal academic training. Despite graduating from the Faculty of Commerce, his passion for calligraphy led him to make the bold decision to devote himself entirely to becoming a professional calligrapher—a pursuit that has become both his creative sanctuary and primary source of inspiration.

Slanted × Reell—A perfect fit!
Reell, a German-Dutch streetwear label, founded in 1997 with a simple idea, functional, well-designed pants—Reell has grown into a pan-European brand on a mission to innovate, deeply rooted in urban lifestyles. Far beyond being just a pants specialist, our backbone remains high-quality products at an honest price.

Green Village Factory, Solar Powered, Future-Focused
Sustainability isn’t a trend, it’s the foundation of how Reell works. Their tops are crafted at the Green Village Factory in northern Pakistan, a facility they built from the ground up to combine ethical production with environmental responsibility.
• 90% solar-powered, keeping the footprint low.
• Fair labor practices, workers live with their families, not in cramped city rentals.
• Built to last—every piece crafted for quality and longevity.

The hoodie is available in a unisex size of S–XL. To find the right size, please check Reell’s size chart online, the return is excluded for this product.

About Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo
Autumn/Winter 2025/26
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. Indepth 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 have been edited into the short film Cairo Unscripted—Exploring Cairo’s Past, Present, and Creative Future by design studio Ntsal. It is available for free on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

Limited Special Edition Cairo: Photo Prints + Slanted Magazine #46

On the occasion of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we are excited to present a special limited edition that includes a set of five exclusive photo prints. The images, created by Markus Lange, come from his series Tayara—The Kites That Flew Too High.

In Egyptian Arabic, tayara (طيّاّرة) means both airplane and kite. During the pandemic, these colorful kites soared high above Cairo’s rooftops—bringing joy, freedom, and a fleeting escape to children and families. Soon after, however, the Egyptian government banned them, citing accidents and even fears of “espionage.” Lange’s photographs capture this fragile interplay between freedom and restriction, transformation and control, playfulness and politics.

The photo prints are produced in high-quality offset on heavy paper, carefully crafted to preserve every detail and nuance of the images. Limited to only 200 sets, they are perfectly suited for framing—bringing a piece of Cairo’s poetic and turbulent rooftop skies into your home.

About Markus Lange

Markus Lange is a graphic designer, screen printer, photographer, and educator, living and working in Nuremberg. His work focuses on typography, poster design, editorial design, publishing, and documentary photography. Since 2014 he has collaborated with Lars Harmsen on the international screen print project Poster Rex, and in 2021 opened an experimental screen printing workshop in Carlazzo, Italy. Between 2018 and 2023 he taught graphic design at the German University in Cairo. Since September 2023 Markus Lange is Professor for Graphic Design in Nuremberg.
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About Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo
Autumn/Winter 2025/26

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. Get more info about the Cairo issue here.

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 have been edited into the short film Cairo Unscripted—Exploring Cairo’s Past, Present, and Creative Future by design studio Ntsal. It is available for free on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46

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.

Initiatives like this ensure that the typography scene remains vibrant and that communities emerge based on inspiration, constructive feedback, and admiration.
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The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46 works as a great source of inspiration and creative reference.
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Void.Reflections

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.

The book invites readers to contemplate, analyze, and read in a reflective and thoughtful manner.
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The Generative Mind. A New Approach to Creative Thinking

Artificial intelligence, automation and data–driven tools are rapidly transforming the creative landscape. As the role of design and communication evolves, true innovation isn’t found in mastering the endless stream of new tools or chasing the latest trends — it emerges when we craft authentic connections that hold meaning beyond fleeting technological shifts. The Generative Mind is an invitation to cut through the noise by embracing a transformative mindset that enables you to design dynamic brand narratives, interactive identities and flexible design systems.
Grounded in eight sharp, actionable principles, the author challenges you to think beyond static outcomes by stepping into the headspace of creating living, evolving and truly generative experiences.
A companion for makers in motion who want to unlock a more profound, co-creative and human-centered way to ideate, design and tell stories for a world that refuses to stand still.

The quick classification guide for typography. A handbook for designers

Typography is an essential part of visual communication design. The rapid changes brought about by digitalization also have a major impact on the type design process. Users need a solid knowledge base in order to deal with the seemingly unmanageable abundance of exciting and new fonts and to use them sensibly.
The quick classification guide for typography is a precise and inspiring guide for all those who want to understand and use typography in a focused and effective way, this volume provides both creative inspiration and a practical understanding. This is made possible in particular by a clear structural concept for classification into categories and subcategories. The authors present a selection of more than one hundred relevant typefaces, supplemented by historical background, user-relevant information and explanations of their special formal characteristics to make it easier to recognize the underlying formal principles.

Water Works—Ecosocial Design

Water is a central concern in the ecological and social issues that we are faced with, and technical solutions do not suffice. We need a radically diverse approach that stages and cultivates relations. Without promising grandiose schemes to save the environment, eco–social design fosters curiosity about the ways in which people draw on their experience and shared commitment to landscapes and ecologies.

Through a collection of essays and case studies, Water Works shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, Water Works allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures.

Critically blending knowledge derived from craft, art, science and ecology, these works ask: what are sensible ways to embrace and connect with water? Through wading, floating, testing and tasting, how can we generate more desirable eco–social relations? In facing large–scale engineering, climate change, privatization and other forms of water violence, these works are an invitation to design together with water as a site and medium for eco–social renewal.

Contributors: Mari Bastashevski, Janna Bystrykh, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Yi-Fei Chen, Ştefan Constantinescu, Carolina Domingue–Guzmán, Clemens Driessen, Shahnoor Hasan, Clara Sika Helbo, Ils Huygens, Mahmoud Khattab, Francesca Masoero, Coltrane McDowell, Mariana & Joana Pestana, Benedetta Pompili, Esha Shah, Mihnea Tănăsescu, Serina Tarkhanian, John Thackara, Daniela Tokashiki, Jennifer Veilleux, Henriëtte Waal, Ria Waal.

Interviews with: Jon Ardern (Superflux), Atelier LUMA, John van Boxel, Natsai Audrey Chieza (Faber Futures), Ahmed Salem Dabah, Julien Fargetton, Sylvain Hartenberg (OOZE Architects), Anab Jain (Superflux), Zairah Khan, Rebecca Lave, Mary Maggic, Kent O. Miller, Mirko Nikolić, Roric Paulman, Eva Pfannes (OOZE Architects), Qanat Collective, Marjetica Potrč, Rimini Protokoll, Fernando Felipe Pérez Riojas, Sandrine Rozier, Rutger Schrijer, Susan Schuppli, Moreno Schweikle, Veronika Sedlmair, Islam Shabana, Brynjar Sigurðarson, Billy Tiller, Heidi Vogels, Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), Thijs de Zeeuw.

Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, EFL Stichting, Cultuurfonds, Wageningen University & Research

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses—Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial research practices that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks. For some time now, numerous contemporary artists and curators have moved beyond the primacy of the visual in the experience of art exhibitions. The book discusses this shift by bringing together experimental exhibition-making, curatorial theory, art, design, and museum research, disability activism and crip theory. Its intent is to demonstrate resonances between curatorial theory and practice and between disability and crip art activism. While the latter is still often regarded as relevant for only small portions of visibly disabled people, in recent years neurodiversity and invisible disabilities have proven to be relevant for the sensory experiences of much larger parts of exhibition audiences.

Exhibiting for Multiple Senses shares famous and lesser-known examples of experimental exhibitions as well as of artistic practices linked to exhibitions. By mobilizing the senses of touch, smell, taste, and hearing, as well as applications of multimodal technologies and insights from neuroscience, these examples all explore abilities and possibilities of the complex and diverse sensory apparatus that is the human body.

Contributors: David Bobier, Luca M. Damiani, Stephanie Farmer & Hettie James, Eva Fotiadi, David Gissen & Georgina Kleege, Adi Hollander, Lilian Korner, Elke Krasny, Renata Pękowska, Caro Verbeek

Partner: Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT), Breda, NL

Support: Mondriaan Fund, het Cultuurfonds, De Gijselaar-Hintzenfonds

Alphabetical Playground

Driven by a fascination with the alphabet as a vessel for unlimited visual concepts, systems and languages, Alphabetical Playground explores a wide range of themes concerning expression in text. It presents a series of graphic experiments that investigate and manipulate the building blocks of language. Beginning as a series of ongoing variable type experiments, unused project concepts and playful takes on existing letterform typologies, the book is an attempt to consolidate these varying ideas into a playful collection of Alphabets, a showcase of how far we can push the medium of type design and structure.

Ultimately—although it may not always be immediately apparent—everything on these pages is language. This work demonstrates how text allows us to embed our thoughts, beliefs and systems within it: a code within a code, a game within a game, a system within a system. It serves as a reminder of the alphabet’s enormous potential to transcend its fundamental purpose as a tool for communication and instead become a limitless space for creative expression.

Nigel Cottier’s new book of experimental type ideas is an investigation into how we can use the Alphabet as a container for countless graphic systems, conceptual ideas, and endless play.

With a foreword from Hamish Muir, Alphabetical Playground is Nigel Cottier’s second book on experimental type after Letterform Variations, released in 2021.

Nigel Cottier’s graphic designs evoke a sense of wonder and play.
stir world

The font is the main protagonist, captivating our eyes from the very first moment.
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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.

As this is a topic that concerns us all, this book is a must-read. In addition to its “design” quality, it offers the utmost in human quality.
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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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

”A reference work for systematic and flexible visual work. And at the same time, it speaks of a great much of practical experience.”
TGM-ONLINE.DE, Rudolf Paulus Gorbach

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