Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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...
Visibility, appreciation, and networking. SAMT Magazine shows what is developed, designed, conceived, and implemented at the Design Department of HAW Hamburg. It is a stage for graduation- and semester projects in the field of communication design, illustration, fashion, costume, and textile design. Moreover SAMT Magazine is a student magazine that was initiated and launched in December 2019 for the first...
Maybe some of you know them from the museum stores, or others have wondered about their friend’s new trendy accessory. This brand seems to be everywhere in the world, because LOQI has established itself in our lives with high quality and beautifully printed bags. Whether classic, modern or contemporary, LOQI collected an enormous amount of the world’s most beautiful artwork...
The story of Brick started back in 2015 whilst Fermin Guerrero was studying Typeface Design in Reading. Visiting London, and walking down Brick Lane in London, Guerrero noticed an often overlooked, but incredibly beautiful sign for the now-closed pub, The Jolly Butchers. There was an instant fascination with the forms found within the sign. The style of Brick exquisitely blends Art...
COEXIST—to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time, or in the same place. The first time in our lives the world is changing fundamentally. We need to rethink what all this is about. Higher, faster, and further at the expense of others cannot point the way to the future. We need to question ourselves, how we want...
