Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Design and creative professionals, consider this your sign to set your OOO. DesignThinkers returns to Toronto, Canada on October 20–21 for its 27th year, bringing together 2,000 creatives under the theme Out of Office to explore creativity, the design process and what’s next for the industry. The DesignThinkers program features five streams and nearly 40 sessions, including engaging presentations, hands-on...
Compression or Compassion? Indiecon shows how to deal with pressure—on paper and in real life From September 4 to 6, the Gleishalle in Hamburg will be the scene of printing, drawing, stencil art, bookbinding, and discussions—about books, magazines, zines, and how they reach their audiences. This year, more than 25 workshops and roundtables will complement the program of the conference...
A miscellany of ampersands created for clients, from studio projects and workshops over the last ten years. These are interspersed with naturally occurring ampersands – formed of string, rubber bands and ribbons. Unintentional glyphs spotted in the studio, on walls, or in nature. Collaborations with coincidence.The more closely one looks, the more ampersands begin to appear in unexpected places. The...
This September, Neustadt/W. and the surrounding region will become a meeting point for photography, poetry and new forms of image-making. good prospects: Photography, Poetry & AI brings together artists, authors, researchers and AI experts from September 9–13, 2026. Under the theme “From Analog to Digital to Synthetic”, more than 30 participants will take part in over 20 exhibitions, talks, readings,...
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools explores the instruments shaping contemporary creative practice. Through interviews, articles, and numerous examples from graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding, the issue looks at how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself. Perspectives from Azza Alameddine, Amélie Bonet with Sol Matas, and Marianna Paszkowska were collected...
With its 32nd issue, komma—the design magazine of the Technical University of Applied Sciences Mannheim—takes a different approach. Created, designed, and produced entirely by students, komma has always been a space for experimentation, exchange, and creative perspectives emerging from the university’s Design Faculty. With every new editorial team, the magazine changes its voice, its visual language, and its way of...
We are excited to announce a new open call for submissions for an upcoming edition of Slanted Magazine dedicated to SPORTS—with a strong focus on TYPOGRAPHY. Sport has produced some of the most distinctive visual languages—but also an incredible amount of generic and interchangeable branding. We want to look beyond that! We are searching for outstanding typography in sports: typefaces,...
Stylenoir Script is a new display typeface from The Northern Block type foundry. Taking inspiration from hand-painted signage, brush lettering, and urban graffiti culture, its design reflects the ongoing evolution of lettering by combining traditional craftsmanship with the vibrant energy of street graffiti. The type family includes two styles: Smooth and Rough. Smooth offers a refined, polished look with clean...
The graduation magazine from HfG Offenbach brings together the diploma projects of 93 graduates from the years 2023 and 2024. Across 368 pages, the publication presents 183 diploma projects from the fields of art and design, spanning five theoretical and 19 practical subject areas. Texts in both German and English offer access to the diverse perspectives, approaches, and ideas developed...
Constrictor, a new type family released by Frere-Jones Type in June 2026, began as a title sketch for a documentary about Margaret Lovatt, who was part of a NASA funded project which set out to communicate with dolphins and ended up dosing them with LSD. Shallcrass layered this rich input with typographic history, experiences and memories from the physical world...
What happens when the visual identity for a photography festival is built without photographs? For the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, dipshop developed a visual identity based on three phenomena that are usually present in photographs but rarely become the subject themselves: depth of field, lens flares and burned film. Rather than treating them as technical side effects, we...
Ferro is a type family that turns information loss into a design principle, bridging Renaissance metal type and the early computer age. It began as a display face for CodeX, an editorial project on digital cultures whose second issue, designed by the collective Bonjour Monde, explored media archaeology and the French Minitel, asking how medium-specific works can survive once the...
