Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
With a sure instinct and a global network, Raban Ruddigkeit and Lars Harmsen are always scouting new fonts. The most exciting find their way into this years Typodarium 2023. Day of the week and date on the front, index of figures, designer and source of supply on the back on a colored background. The cute calendar sets the pace in...
Mum probably told us, “The oven is a danger zone.” Still, we had to experiment our first burn to know how hot fire is. Our parents covered us with millions of kisses, long before we fell in love with somebody and experimented our first kiss. Even if we saw it before, nobody could really tell us how beautiful it is....
There is a new issue of MC1R Magazine #7 —The Magazine for Redheads and we love it! The blow up issue represents the latest projects all around global photography initiatives with redheads. This print copy is limited and exclusive, designed by Marcel Häusler, the new designer of MC1R Magazine. Contributors: Erika Lust, Joel Meyerowitz, Palina Rojinski, Henrik Alm, Jocelyn Lee, Thomas...
We were recently allowed to take a look at the bookbindery Spinner in Ottersweier in the northern Black Forest, which has been binding Slanted Magazine and lots of our books for many years. Hard and soft covers have been produced there by around 75 employees for more than six decades. The family-owned company is in its third generation and always...
It moves organically in nature. Its texture is familiar to us in a pleasant way. It breathes. Its surface is smooth and in resting dynamic movement. It lives, and we recognize a substance of which we are ourselves. No longer as the navel of the world, but as an element of the new order. The key visual of FILM FESTIVAL...
After six successful editions of the typeface compendium Yearbook of Type, we are now starting a new series of books dedicated to lettering: The Yearbook of Lettering #1. It will be published in spring 2023 and will present the best of lettering from all over the world, from traditional calligraphy to street art and graffiti—in the form of a clear, comprehensive...
The Institut für Buchgestaltung (IFB) at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences invites you to celebrate the medium book at the symposium the books are alright, and discuss its future. On October 28th, 2022, the IFB will hold a symposium on book design, which is aimed towards design students and friends of beautiful books. Guest speakers have been invited from teaching,...
What if we could get to the root of the climate crisis, and make our lives not less but more fulfilling at the same time? This is the question behind the Make it Circular Challenge, a new competition launched by What Design Can Do (WDCD) and the IKEA Foundation. From now until January 11th of 2023, they’re inviting the global...
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type is in production and will be published end of October! This issue is all about experiments with type—offering a glimpse into spaces that were explored by pushing conventions, limitations, and thoughts to the next level. Printed and finished by our long-time printing partner Stober Medien, the Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type impresses with a beautiful double hot...
Libraries are so much more than collections of books. They are archives of knowledge, sources of inspiration, places of equal learning, encounter, and free education. At the same time, their extraordinary architecture represents the societies and eras from which they emerged. Büchertempel celebrates the world’s oldest, most extraordinary, and most ambitious libraries: from baroque palaces to UNESCO-protected adobe buildings to...
Raskal is a visual statement. Its design digitally translates and transforms handwriting and hand lettering’s most exciting elements. Although it has a lot in common with “script fonts,” Raskal’s relationship to handwriting or formal script styles is not as close as what you see in revival typefaces or ones based on a famous calligrapher’s oeuvre. The trip Raskal took between...
On September 28th, the opening of the exhibition 60 Years of Forte, which honors the typeface of the same name, took place in Vienna. Forte, this living typeface, has been used, abused, and often overused for over six decades, since it was published by The Monotype Corporation in 1962. Its designer, Karl Reißberger, has been little known until now. The...
