Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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 Perniclas Bedow! Perniclas Bedow (born 1976) is a Swedish graphic designer, art director, and founder of design studio Bedow. The studio’s work is described as simple, thoughtful, and...
100 POSTER BATTLE 2 is an experimental, bilingual poster design project supervised by Lars Harmsen and Markus Lange, that brings together students from different universities to design posters. In a first round, black and white basic motifs were created, consisting of typography / text, or image / illustration / photo, or background. Just like in screen printing, the various layers...
Parcours Summer 2022 invites you from July 15th to 17th, 2022, on behalf of all graduates, to the exhibition of the bachelor’s theses from the fields of illustration, communication, media, and product design, as well as master’s theses from the design program. Parcours is more than an exhibition. Contrasting and versatile, sometimes contradictory, but always individual and special. After more...
Before Paris is a multi-purpose typeface, which is pushing the boundaries of a classical display font. The typeface offers uppercase and lowercase letters, together with a variety of OpenType features like ligatures and stylistic sets. Before Paris arose as an homage to the French movie Elevator to the Gallows (fr. Ascenseur pour l’échafaud). This masterpiece by Louis Malle from 1958...
Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating the release of our Slanted Special Issue Bavaria with many of the participants and friends in Munich at soda book shop. We had an incredibly nice evening and really enjoyed the exchange about the magazine and beyond. Thanks to all the guests for coming. A special thanks goes to bayern design and...
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 Stockholm Design Lab! Stockholm Design Lab, an internationally recognized and awarded brand agency, has since 1998 worked internationally and domestically with a wide range of clients and sectors...
Slanted Special Issue Bavaria presents a selection of the best of Bavarian creativity, diversity, and intelligence! OK … Bavaria stands for: Men in Lederhosen and women in Dirndls (traditional dresses), beer, Schweinshaxen (pork knuckles), Knödel (dumplings), Brezeln and Weißwürste, Oktoberfest, FC Bayern Munich, BMW (75.000 employees), Audi, Allianz, Adidas, Siemens, Alps, Allgäu, Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Dachau, Altötting, Chiemsee, Starnberger See,...
As part of Jared Grasser’s bachelor’s thesis, he created a campaign with wit and looseness that educates young adults between the ages of 17 and 27 about alcohol and its risks at eye level. In his work SAUFEN, he dispels prejudices, encourages people to take a self-determined approach, and shows them that they don’t have to live up to society’s...
A Place of Daring, a house with charisma—the University of Arts Linz sees itself as an open space dedicated to critical thinking and shaping social processes. The new visual identity reflects this idea by using a fluid framework which never stands still. Embedded in a mindful layout, it provides flexible space for the various content of the students, teachers, employees,...
At the Dessau Design Schau a colorful mix of students from many different semesters will show their integrated design studies. This year they have the chance to show their work live and on site in Dessau. The appearance of the Dessau Design Show was created in a project (with Prof. Brigitte Hartwig) in this summer semester with 15 students. While...
Our Typeface of the Month: Rezak is designed by Anya Danilova and published by TypeTogether. Nothing is hidden in the simplistic forms of Anya Danilova’s Rezak font family recently published by TypeTogether type foundry. Rezak is not a typeface directly from the digital world, but was inspired by the stout presence of cutting letters out of a solid material. With...
Design shapes our daily lives on many different levels; from clothing, home objects and vehicles to houses, environments and relationships between people. The function of design has been to mediate changes in technology, science or in human thinking more broadly. In this way, plywood furniture, synthetic fabrics or coherently marked pathways have become part of our everyday environments. The concept...
