Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Two days, one stage, and a room full of people willing to listen. Fifteen years after its first edition, beyond tellerrand once again transformed Düsseldorf’s Capitol Theater into something that felt less like a conference and more like a temporary creative ecosystem: open, restless, and deeply human. What began in 2010 without a clear roadmap has quietly grown into one...
Reiner Neue is a contemporary type system informed by the work of Hungarian-born modernist Imre Reiner. Rather than reconstructing historical models, the project translates Reiner’s ideas on rhythm, proportion, and typographic structure into a framework designed for present-day use. The family takes Meridian (1930) as a conceptual point of departure while incorporating selected ornamental references from Reiner’s Primula ornament series,...
KTF Prima began over a decade ago during Yevgeniy Anfalov’s studies at ECAL, sparked by an interest in Forma, a modernist sans serif often perceived as warmer than its contemporaries due to its proportions and restrained contrast. Forma’s history, shaped by the shift from metal type to phototypesetting at Italy’s Nebiolo foundry in the late 1960s and 1970s, raised questions...
To Mark Aardman’s 50th anniversary, the V&A commissioned Galicheva–Gahlen to create a graphic identity and interpretive design system that translates the studio’s distinctive universe into an immersive exhibition experience. At the core of the visual concept lies a deceptively simple idea: every character, story and cinematic world begins with a single piece of clay. By reducing plasticine to its most...
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice. This issue offers a diverse insight into the global creative scene and uses numerous examples to show how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself. The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to indispensable utilities that shape creative digital and analog...
Since 2018, letterspace.amsterdam has served as a platform for Amsterdam’s local letterform culture, dedicated to expanding the ways we think about communication, typography, and the playful possibilities of letterforms. Initiated by three type designers, the project emerged from a desire to move beyond individual practice and create connections between people who approach type as both a tool and a medium....
The Design Reviewed archive documents over 10,000 artefacts spanning 150 years of graphic design history. Design Reviewed is an independent graphic design archive dedicated to documenting and sharing the history of graphic design. In collaboration with Unit Editions, a campaign has been launched to publish the best of the Design Reviewed archive in a 400-page book, covering a century of graphic design...
Road to Venice Type released Traktor, a mixed serif humanist typeface with roman and gothic influences. It is suitable display sizes in packaging, in an editorial or book setting or to set short passages of text. Moreover, Traktor comes with a basic Cyrillic set of letters, extending its support for Central and South Eastern European languages, and it offers variable...
Breakout #2 takes Tamti’s early explorations into real-world projects from 2022 to 2025, building on the success of Homebound, New Wave, and Breakout—100 Posters. Cihan Tamti originally started Breakout as a personal experiment—treating Instagram like a graphic design gym and creating a poster every day. Without briefs or constraints, he explored typography, lettering, illustration, layouts, and bold visual ideas. Some...
Japanese typography is everywhere right now, from streetwear and album covers to editorial layouts and branding. Designers around the world are drawn to it. At the same time, many are working without a clear sense of how it actually functions. J Type 101 is a 44-page guide by Mio Kosaka, Mizuki Hanada, and Monet Fukawa of Koyubi Studio in Brooklyn....
Coin is a contemporary font superfamily comprising 36 fonts and 4 variable fonts. The type system includes weights ranging from Thin to Black as well as Expanded styles, making it suitable for a wide range of applications including branding, graphic design and web design. The international character set contains more than 650 characters and numerous currency symbols, including the Bitcoin...
Eregalle is a contemporary typeface that explores how regional visual culture can inform typographic form without resorting to historical imitation. Developed through research into and early printed matter, the project asks how cultural specificity can be embedded at the structural level of a typeface rather than expressed through ornament or explicit reference. The project takes its name from Eregalle, an...
