Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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...
Words Form Language is a book on concrete poetry, typography, and the work of Eugen Gomringer. This publication was realized with the support of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and HES-SO/University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. It has been published by Triest Verlag in both English and German language. Bolivian-born Swiss poet, writer and publisher Eugen Gomringer (*1925)...
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 Maja Kölqvist! Maja Kölqvist is a creative director, graphic designer, and editor. She has been working for brands at the crossroad of design, culture, and fashion for over...
This month’s Typeface of the Month: Laca Pro is a sans serif typeface by Nova Type Foundry. Laca Pro is a sans serif typeface inspired by retro Portuguese packaging of soaps. “Laca” is the Portuguese word for hairspray. The starting point was to design a typeface that would bring a familiar feeling of closeness and warmth but give it a modern...
High Noon #65 Special with Na Kim will take place on June 15th, 2022, at the Faculty of Design in Darmstadt. At 7 p.m. you are invited to meet up in the auditorium. Na Kim is a graphic designer based in Seoul and Berlin. After studying product design and graphic design in Korea, Kim participated in Werkplaats Typografie in the...
The Cercle Magazine #10 is an independent and thematic magazine published once a year. Every year, a new issue. Each issue, a new topic. Cercle tries to gather information around one main topic and to propose a support that values contemporary artistic creation, culture, and science. After ten years of topics dealt with as interviews and pictures, Cercle Magazine celebrates its tenth...
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 Magnus Gustafsson! Paul & friends was founded in 1991 and is a multi brand retail and online store located in Stockholm. It has since then become a destination...
The Miss Read 2022 will take place again in Berlin from April 29th to May 1st at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. We are very happy that we got the opportunity to be there with a small booth. We are already looking forward to your visit! Miss Read will bring together a wide selection of 300+ publishers, art periodicals, and artists/authors....
Wasserstories: Our Future—Their Reality is an interactive web documentary, developed by Caroline Breidenbach as a master-project at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, which critically and artistically explores the issues of water privatization and water crisis. In Wasserstories, three multimedia stories give alarming insights into the past and future of our water. They deal with the universal question: Who owns the water? The...
