Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
These days, the browser window seems to replace the one in our apartments and gives us a view on the world. It has never been so important to stay connected to a transforming technical world. Also in universities being digitalized is more evident this semester than ever before. At the same time, new challenges are emerging for students as obstacles...
Slanted Publishers hat ein 6-monatiges Praktikum im Bereich Redaktion/Grafik ab März 2021 zu vergeben: Wir suchen eine(n) engagierte(n) Studierende(n) mit großem Interesse an Typografie und redaktionellen/organisatorischen Aufgaben, der/die Lust hat zu erfahren, wie wir arbeiten und für 6 Monate Teil des Slanted-Teams wird. Wir bieten: Einblicke in unsere Verlagstätigkeit (Konzeption, Redaktion, Organisation, Vertrieb, PR etc.) Redaktionelle und grafische Mitarbeit am...
Nature is one of the most multi-faceted sources of inspiration that exist on our planet: endlessly complex yet simple, exciting and unique but also calming and unpretentious. How incredible—that there is a way we can bring a piece of this nature into our own four walls. But the cultivation of house plants does not always prove to be easy. With...
Radical Passion. The Worlds Longest Produced Electric Train and a Vibrant Train Culture book project unveiled the untold history about brutal design, visual culture, and the community of radical train lovers. The publication is more than 500 pages visual story about the extraordinary train model EN57 and the creative impact it had on society. This unit was the worlds longest...
Everyday life is full of inspiring typographical situations. Especially when you keep your eyes open, you will discover beautifully and absurdly used typefaces on places you won’t expect them. For the love of typographical bits and unintentional design processes, Sebastian Bissinger and Laure Boer, from the German-French design agency BANK in Berlin, decided to reveal not only their type photo...
Last week in Poland, the street protests lived to see their own typeface. On Friday people all over the world followed the banners appearing on protests in Poland with fascination. The posters and banners, that appeared to mark the protests of the women’s strike in many polish cities from the turn of October and November 2020, triggered a storm, also...
For two years, with their 4 × 5 large format camera in their luggage, a lot of patience and great physical effort, two photographers from Munich were on the road in winter sports resorts between Lake Geneva and Nice. Their astonishing photographical documentation ÉTÉ covers once hypermodern holiday colonies, created in the building boom from the 1950’s until well into...
Fonts have more to offer than good looks. Beneath their polished surface is a complex arrangement of data and functions that few people get to see. Guy Mayger, Font-Engineer at Monotype, says “I think if the writing fits in relaxedly and unobtrusively, we have been successful.” TypeTech MeetUp 20/21 has been created to fill a gap: it needed a place...
From Cape Town to Marrakech, Vancouver to Moscow and more, people were required to stay indoors in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. As many turned their households into impromptu workplaces, we were left wondering: how would you go on vacation within the narrow confines of your home? That question led ZAINA and Vacanza Studio to launch a non-profit,...
Feminism is on everyone’s lips today and we think that this is a normal state of being. We like to forget the historical background on which we build this feminist self-confidence today. The editorial team of the Feminist Findings zine has analyzed an exciting selection of historical publications that allow us to discover the path of this movement and its...
Right on time for election day, studio lindhorst-emme published a book, which could be seen like a summary of the concerning past four years in America. To overtrump oneself or others does not necessarily have negative connotations. It also means to get the maximum out of oneself, to constantly better ones standing, and to learn from what has come before....
Effective communication is one of the most vital life skills we need to succeed. Conveying ideas, thoughts, feelings, facts and information clearly and concisely has always been important—but it has never been as important as it is nowadays. In digitalized times, where we coexist in front of our digital devices, a new type foundry was formed in order to satisfy...
