Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
“His images are among the most exciting that contemporary German photography has to offer,” cultural critic Adriano Sack wrote about the Photographic Pictures of Christian Werner. Since the end of the 1990s, the photographer has been an integral part of Berlin’s cultural landscape. His passion for portraying fascinating people has led him to photograph celebrities like Billie Eilish, Devendra Banhart,...
Two days dedicated to the cooperation between design and business. On June 28th and 29th, 2022, the Austrian Design Talks will take place at Hollenegg Castle in western Styria. Ten successful partnerships between design and classic business will use best practice examples to show what contribution design makes to success, how the development process works, and how companies can benefit...
The Stiftung Buchkunst selected Die 25 Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022 (The 25 Most Beautiful German Books) of the year. 645 entries competed for the coveted awards. In Die 25 Schönsten Deutschen Bücher competition, two juries of experts selected the 25 most beautiful books of the year in an elaborate process. For seven days, 14 jurors discussed the submitted novelties. The...
WDCD × Posters Can Help worked together on an exhibition for the 10th What Design Can Do Live in Amsterdam. The exhibition was on display in the main lobby area where participants got their coffee and tea during the breaks. The team of WDCD picked some of the posters that have been submitted so far to Posters Can Help to...
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 teenage engineering! teenage engineering develops highly acclaimed products for people who love sound, music, and design. teenage engineering are known for products such as OP–1, the portable wonder...
nomad is a magazine that promotes issues concerning quality of life, sustainability, and society by curating the ideas of a growing global creative community. nomad 12 is out now and available at Slanted Shop! How are living spaces defined and shaped by society, design, and architecture? The nomad team travelled from Munich to Berlin, crossed the Italian Alps, and jumped from...
Each year a new team of students from the Design Faculty of the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim plans, organizes, and finally realizes the Captcha Design Festival 2022. This tradition came to life in 2014 and has been going on ever since, inspiring young design-lovers with exciting workshops every year a new. This year’s festival follows the topic of...
Peridot PE is a multifaceted sans serif type system designed by Pria Ravichandran and Kostas Bartsokas, it is available at Foundry5. “We burnt the midnight oil and sweated over minute details to present a high quality ten weight family with slanted italics in six widths and the coveted variable format!” Peridot PE is loaded with personality; try the different stylistic...
After a two-year break enforced by Covid, on June 3rd the CXI Conference 2022, Europe’s biggest Brand-Identity and Corporate-Design Conference, finally opened its doors again! 800 guests—designers, agencies, creatives, and design-enthusiasts—mainly from all over Germany came together in the Lokschuppen in Bielefeld to listen to five talks related to branding and design processes, to get inspired, and to learn something....
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 Our Polite Society! In 2008, Our Polite Society was founded by Jens Schildt and Matthias Kreutzer. They worked with the Kunstverein Bielefeld, the Sandberg Institute, the Bauhaus Dessau,...
Last Thursday, two exciting exhibitions opened at the HfG Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design: HfG GRADUATES 21/22 (02.06.–19.06.22) & Munitions Factory—exhibition on the history of a monstrous space (02.06.-12.09.22) on occasion of the 30th anniversary of the HfG. Titled HfG GRADUATES 21/22 – All we as – the exhibition gathers diplomas, master theses and PHDs in the university’s atriums....
Bark—Skin of Trees is a multisensory exhibition about the changeability of an apparently dead material. The characteristic Bark—Skin of Trees scales give evidence to the brisk cell production and show us a freeze frame of the constant change of a living being. This project combines the haptics of analogue bark exhibits with interactive real-time renderings via projection and in virtual...
