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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

100 Beste Plakate 24

In the yearbook, the winning posters of the competition 100 Beste Plakate 24 are presented in large-format images with detailed credits, including brief descriptions of content aspects and the context of their creation. This is supplemented with a contact register of all designers and listings of clients and printing companies. The introduction of the jury, featuring their own works and statements about the selection process, along with forewords from the association president and the jury chair, completes the publication.

Additionally, an essay or interview contribution addresses related topics in current poster design, development trends, and analyzes. The current book concept takes the actual highlight at the end for the designers involved in the winning posters as its basis: the certificates awarded by the organizer as an honorary tribute give rise to ironic questioning on the borderline between seriousness and benevolent mockery.

Tristesse from Basel, a trio of two graphic designers and a filmmaker / photographer, came up with the idea so that the ensemble of layout, typography and photography could be produced entirely in-house. The 100 Best Plakate as the leading actors on a stage—rich in elements that are true to the style of the Swiss studio: fresh and cheeky.

we work because we love this shit. Formdusche – A Berlin Design Studio from Scratch

With we work because we love this shit. Formdusche – A Berlin Design Studio from Scratch, formdusche presents a luxurious 416-page retrospective just in time for its anniversary: snazzy typography, spot color to the max, filled to the brim with gems from the archive.
A lively mixture of backstage information, heard blood, workflow and project show provides an insight into the last 15 years and the formdusche spirit—a declaration of love to graphic design.
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Extra: »Kind of Magic« A2 Poster!

Ephemeral Echoes

Between movement and standstill, the camera freezes a fraction of a second that would otherwise pass unnoticed. In a restless, digitally networked world, Simon Gerlinger’s photos in Ephemeral Echoes invite us to pause and turn our attention to the quiet moments. The images do not provide any big answers, but rather raise questions: What was yesterday? What is today? And what could be tomorrow?

Gerlinger’s photographs spark something in us: They make the viewer fall into a deep sense of nostalgia. The people and places in his photos become projection surfaces for our own memories, which we encounter again and again in everyday life. The photographs are not just projections, but also documentation of a search—for what, actually? A search between Denmark, Berlin, Dortmund, New York and the south of France that spans the photographer’s last eight years: it doesn’t matter where the images are located in the real world. They show the photographer’s innermost self—his everyday perception. Between studying, finding one’s way in the world, falling in love and forgetting time for a moment. Photography not only as an exercise in seeing, but also as an act of preservation—perhaps as a brief distraction from the realization that everything will one day come to an end.

 

Hallo Kopenhagen

Rediscover Copenhagen – through curated recommendations, literature, and local flair.

Hallo Kopenhagen (it’s written in German language) is not your typical travel guide, but rather a beautifully crafted city book – blending photo essay, art project, interview collection, and literary portrait.

With personal conversations, atmospheric photography, and excerpts from contemporary Danish literature translated into German for the first time, this book opens up fresh perspectives on Denmark’s capital.
It invites you to explore unique places, discover voices from the local literary scene, and dive into curated tips on culture and cuisine—perfect for anyone looking to experience Copenhagen in depth.

– sustainably and climate-neutrally printed in Hamburg
– independently published with love and care
– a visual gem: open thread binding
– ideal as a gift or for armchair travel