Dr. Robert Hillier designed and developed the Sylexiad range of typefaces for adult dyslexic readers, as part of his doctoral research, producing a PhD called A Typeface for the Adult Dyslexic Reader (2006). Hillier has presented his research findings at numerous design institutions and conferences, including the Design Principles and Practices Conferences at the University of California in Los Angeles...
Dog Ears
Grammy-nominated independent design studio Public-Library is proud to announce the pre-sale of its latest publication, titled Dog Ears, on the occasion of the studio’s tenth anniversary. Published as a collection of iterative design explorations, this work examines the deconstruction of a single sentence typeset in a single typeface in an attempt to understand the commitment between content and form. Dog...
female patterns
The student project female patterns by Lara Herrmann and Lara Kranich of the Fakultät Gestaltung in Würzburg wants to shine a light on women’s fight of rights in Afghanistan. It’s September 2021. The worldwide news report about a country in crisis. Countless people are facing an uncertain future and women in particular fear for their lives. The country that is...
Branding and the Visual Response
Today we would like to present you the book Branding and the Visual Response by Peter Sher. This book gives practical advice on how to become a strategically minded, brand-building, elite designer. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a million-dollar designer and a guy designing a logo on Fiverr for as little as $ 200.–? Have you...
Branding and the Visual Response
Today we would like to present you the book Branding and the Visual Response by Peter Sher. This book gives practical advice on how to become a strategically minded, brand-building, elite designer. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a million-dollar designer and a guy designing a logo on Fiverr for as little as $ 200.–? Have you...
The 2022 Type Trends Lookbook
Today we would like to present you the new publication The 2022 Type Trends Lookbook by Zetafonts in which our founder Julia Kahl has also found a place with an interview. We are very happy about this feature and really like its outcome. Zetafonts believes that typography can and should be a tool to design and communicate in a more...
item Magazin #3
item (Independent platform for the Transfer of Educational impulses via a student Magazine) is the student magazine of the Department of Design and Culture at HTW Berlin. The third issue (item Magazin #3) is dedicated to the topic trans. Transformation, transnationalism, transaction, transgender, transhumanism, transparency, transcription, or transcapitalism—the editorial team had many questions on these topics and were happy to...
Winners Released: Best Book Design From All Over the World 2022
Unique of its kind, the annual book design competition Best Book Design from all over the World has been held in Leipzig since 1963. As recently as last year, Covid made a big impact in the international competition Best Book Design from all over the World: The books could be physically examined by the jury, but the discussion and the final...
It’s a book
It’s a book is the annual gathering of producers in the field of independent publishing in Leipzig and sees itself as a marketplace for books and an exchange point for ideas and debates. For the ninth time in a row, it will be conceived, organized, and artistically designed by students at the HGB Leipzig. After the fair was transferred to...
It’s a book
It’s a book is the annual gathering of producers in the field of independent publishing in Leipzig and sees itself as a marketplace for books and an exchange point for ideas and debates. For the ninth time in a row, it will be conceived, organized, and artistically designed by students at the HGB Leipzig. After the fair was transferred to...
Support “American Bauhaus” on Kickstarter
We are very proud to announce the launch of a new crowdfounding campaign today: Support American Bauhaus on Kickstarter to pre finance the project and its production. This important publication creates a space for the lore of the birth of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative home for many refugees from WWII in Europe from 1933–1957, allowing Bauhaus...
Call for Entries Yearbook of Type 2022/23
Here we go again: After the success of the first five editions, the Call for Entries for the Yearbook of Type 2022/23 stars again! The Yearbook of Type VI will be published in autumn 2022 and will follow the same design concept as the fifth edition. It presents a selection of contemporary typefaces from larger typeface publishers as well as...