Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Formist Editions is thrilled to release this curated anthology Open Manifesto of design writing, collected by Kevin Finn. “It’s opinionated, it’s inspiring, it’s illuminating and it’s cheeky. Open Manifesto is a great, necessary read and an important advocate for the role and potential design can provide in our culture, and the world.” — Debbie Millman, host, Design Matters In 2003,...
Here comes Lift Type’s new Aerobik display typeface! With its unique bouncing aesthetics made out of outlines, it does not match any existing typographic style. It refers as much to graffiti in some aspects as to the way motion and speed are represented in comic books. Conceived to be used with regular case or capital letters, it turns out to...
Der Verein für die Schwarze Kunst Dresden e.V. offers friends of artistic crafts the opportunity to learn the basics of black art and to implement their own projects in up to 20 different workshops. For 2023, the association is awarding six walking tours for two months each in different workshops. Four of these are reserved as Walzstipendium for scholarship holders...
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to meet great designers from the local creative scene, among them Gábor Palotai! Gábor Palotai works across genres in both art and design. His world of visual art has been realized in different media, during the years. His works...
Tragic Grotesk is not neutral: On the contrary, it attempts to negotiate a mediating act between warmth and humanity on the one hand and technical directness on the other. The shapes and proportions of Tragic Grotesk were designed with the aim of balance and harmony. The openings such as a, c, e, and s are semi-open and the stroke endings...
INDEX—Issue #2 is a printed journal made through a continual remix from a shared pool of writing, photography, and drawings drawn from and added to the public domain. INDEX started during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020 as a collaboration across three states and two time zones—a way for friends to share visual journals of their respective experiences during lockdown. The...
Learn to make your own Variable Color Fonts in a couple of hours with Typearture. From the moment variable fonts were introduced (on September 14th, 2016), Dutch designers Jeroen Disch and Thomas Dahm were fascinated by this new technique. It gives type designers a lot of creative freedom, both in terms of new forms of expression and typographic sophistication. It...
Fit Devanagari is Kimya Gandhi’s extension of the original Fit typeface. This Indic companion has taken Fit’s strict rules of construction, flipped some around, and translated others into a new design that is simultaneously “fitting” of the Fit name, but also true to the history and expectation for Devanagari letterforms. The family goes to extremes that have little precedent in...
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to meet great designers from the local creative scene, among them Payman Hazheer! Payman Hazheer is a Swedish photographer and is based in Stockholm. He focuses in street portraits and photo journalism and has been published by Leica Photography...
This September, the 18th Pictoplasma Conference returns to Berlin to present an all-new selection of trailblazing, trendsetting character design, and art. The conference will provide a platform for artists to share ideation processes and working methodologies in focused presentations. International creators and producers from illustration and animation, design and interactive, and urban and graphic arts will exchange strategies for the...
For the ninth time, Indiecon 2022—Independent Publishing Festival opens its doors from September 2nd to 4th for visitors. This year the festival presents its most international line-up ever in its history. Guests from Lagos, Bukarest, and Singapore will present their publications at this year’s Oberhafen location, Factory Hammerbrooklyn and create visibility for diverse perspectives and realities across the globe. This...
In Alexander Staudt’s thesis BUCH for 2021, he dealt intensively with the body of the book. In addition to its conception and design, he initiated an experimental DIY POD PWYW—do-it-yourself print-on-demand pay-what-you-want project on Instagram. The subject of book bodies played an extremely relevant role in all of his design projects throughout his master’s degree. How will books be designed...
