Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Constrictor, a new type family released by Frere-Jones Type in June 2026, began as a title sketch for a documentary about Margaret Lovatt, who was part of a NASA funded project which set out to communicate with dolphins and ended up dosing them with LSD. Shallcrass layered this rich input with typographic history, experiences and memories from the physical world...
What happens when the visual identity for a photography festival is built without photographs? For the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, dipshop developed a visual identity based on three phenomena that are usually present in photographs but rarely become the subject themselves: depth of field, lens flares and burned film. Rather than treating them as technical side effects, we...
Ferro is a type family that turns information loss into a design principle, bridging Renaissance metal type and the early computer age. It began as a display face for CodeX, an editorial project on digital cultures whose second issue, designed by the collective Bonjour Monde, explored media archaeology and the French Minitel, asking how medium-specific works can survive once the...
With the traveling exhibition “Mein Morgenstern. Ein Buch zum 111. Todestag von Christian Morgenstern,” the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz presents an extraordinary collaborative book arts project that brings together traditional craftsmanship and literary heritage. The exhibition will be on view in the reading room of the museum library from 9 July to 28 August 2026. The exhibition pays tribute to the literary...
It’s set to be another colourful and diverse weekend: For the third time, the Hot Printing Festival in Offenbach will bring together more than 90 artists who explore the theme of print in a wide variety of ways. A young and dynamic scene will showcase their printed works—from screen-printed posters and traditional letterpress to experimental lithography, material printing, comics, and...
The latest addition to NM type font library brings a refreshing contribution to the typographic landscape. Originally started as a student project at Reading University in 2014, Sastre is now making its first public debut. Created by Galician designer María Ramos, the text typeface is currently available in the upright version. Sastre includes five weights and a variable font. Future...
Following its successful premiere in Frankfurt as part of World Design Capital 2026, Forward Festival continues its 2026 season in Berlin. On August 27–28, 2026, the festival returns to Haus der Kulturen der Welt, bringing together creatives for two days of inspiring talks, workshops, networking opportunities, and immersive experiences. Across three stages, more than 50 international speakers from design, typography,...
Most sans-serifs conform to the mechanical, oversimplified rationality, which can often feel a bit cold. Serif typefaces, on the other hand, achieve their neutrality through traditional, centuries-old calligraphic forms—which are far from soulless. CoFo Robert Sans redefines the concept of a daily sans-serif by using its slab-serif counterpart, CoFo Robert, as its structural foundation. It takes those traditional, warm proportions...
The exhibition Campo e Cidade na América Latina at University of São Paulo’s Centro MariAntônia presented a selection of architectural and urban planning experiences developed between Brazil and other Latin American countries throughout the 20th century. By articulating technical knowledge and community practices, the exhibition proposed to denaturalize the dichotomy between countryside and city and reopen the debate on the...
From July 14 to August 26, 2026, the Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) in Tokyo presents Constructing Posters, a solo exhibition by Swiss graphic designer and letterpress printer Dafi Kühne. The exhibition focuses on Kühne’s distinctive approach to poster design, in which the design of a poster and its production are inseparable. Working with a collection of historic letterpress presses, metal...
The Client font family is a modern, square sans-serif typeface that includes a total of 12 fonts and 2 variable fonts. It is characterized by its unique personality and contemporary design language, making it a distinctive choice for a wide range of design applications. The letterforms of the Client font feature a modern and dynamic style, providing a high level...
For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UK’s leading charity Melanoma Focus has launched an awareness campaign that aims to turn an everyday routine, a haircut, into a potentially life-saving moment. The work is based on a simple insight: scalp melanomas, which are more common in men, are among the hardest to detect. The campaign was born out of an annual...
