Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
On the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of its artist residency program at Villa Kamogawa, the Goethe Insitute in Kyoto, its director Enzio Wetzel and curator Michael Hirschbichler invited former residents to submit “connecting pieces” (Japanese: tsunagu mono gatari, German: Verbindungsstücke) of Japanese-German cultural exchange for an exhibition and catalogue named Tsunagu Mono Gatari—Verbindungsstücke. Berlin-based typographers Toshiya Izumo and Ferdinand...
Dinamo believes that customizing fonts should not be an exclusive thing that people need to pay lots of money for. Everyone should have easy access to modifying their own font toolbox! Over the years, the foundry has received numerous emails from customers asking for small changes to their fonts. Mostly, designers fall in love with some of the alternates included in...
We had the pleasure to attend the 18th Pictoplasma 2022 conference in Berlin on Thursday, September 15th. On the premises of Silent Green met a colorful crowd of friends of character design, illustration, game designers, and leading animation filmmakers. It was a great day full of inspiring moments on the screen and in conversations with the high spirited participants and...
Have you ever wondered whether digital typography needs different rules than typesetting on paper? Or why some brands’ logotypes don’t really look convincing? These and many other questions will be answered in a jam-packed workshop with two respected type designers from the Monotype Studio. On the fringes of the outstanding type exhibition Finding Forte (September 28th – October 26th, 2022)...
Fruit Exhibition X turns ten and announces its latest edition: the international festival and market of independent art publishing returns from September 30th to October 2nd, 2022, in its original structure: a three-day market that brings together the best examples of independent publications and a program of meetings, film screenings, exhibitions, and workshops dedicated to the world of publishing. For...
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 exhibition 60 Jahre Forte—Die Schrift, die alle kennen (60 Years of Forte) traces the genesis of the “typeface everyone knows” through Reißberger’s early posters,...
HDMIHDGDL—or: shouldn’t audio-visual be called visual-auditory? Sabrina Zeltner aka Subrihanna has been on the road as a visual artist with various live video projects for years. In her artist book Showreel she makes the attempt to print her music videos, complemented by texts to reflect on her work by Kristoffer Cornils, Judith Grobe, Linda Weidmann, and Meera Theunert. Sabrina Zeltner’s...
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 Christopher West! Studio Christopher West is a small independent design studio. The studio was founded in 2009 by Christopher West, after graduating from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam....
In September our Typeface of the Month: Franzi Pro is a sans-serif by the Vienna based type foundry Wannatype. The new sans-serif Franzi typeface family—as neutral as can be, but at the same time individual and striking. Its unmistakable character lies in the detail, with no effect pushing itself to the fore. As a wide-running typeface with a relatively large...
For the third time, the GRAPHIT 2022 — Festival for Illustration and Urban Sketching is taking place in Erfurt, Germany. GRAPHIT explores cultural, artistic and creative-economic aspects of drawing, reflects contemporary visual culture, and brings creative people together in a scientific festival format. The three-day symposium is taking place from September 23rd to 25th, 2022, packed with workshops, lectures, debates,...
FC Style is the new fashion supplement of the German news magazine: FOCUS. Following the first issue starring Robert Lewandowski × Juergen Teller the new FC Style Magazin No. 2—KINGSIZE features Johann König × Lars Eidinger. Johann König is the pop star of German art galleries, especially with his König Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Lars Eidinger is one of the most...
Striated was designed with display purposes in mind. Its three weights with their respective Italics cater to a variety of application settings, be it in print or on screen. It can be categorized as a mixture between a Grotesque and Geometric typeface with a pinch of heavily formalized elements. Striated uses letterforms that are often seen—and more or less registered—since...
