illo.tv is a creative design studio based in Italy, which has created a motion design video series for nature.org exploring the things they can do to preserve the planet. Climate change represents one of humanity’s most pressing issues, but how do you manage to get that message across, while mixing science facts with an engaging and witty tone? illo.tv explored...
Off the Grid
Today we would like to present you the book Off the Grid. This book has been edited by Sara De Bondt and gives us a brief overview about Belgian graphic design. Off the Grid offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonization, and labour relations among other subjects....
Super Tramp
The typeface Super Tramp by Vivian Dehning is a serif font, which pridefully takes up space with wide letterforms, generous tracking, and lively, multifaceted swashes. The idea behind the concept is to reflect diverse characters and identities as well as to encourage the dismantling of biases. With its round and smooth as well as angular and sharp shapes contrasts complement...
Beyond the Archive
Students at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach have taken a close look at the type specimens in the Klingspor Museum. From March 12th to May 29th, 2022, the exhibition Beyond the Archive will show historical objects from the early 20th century from the Gebr. Klingspor’s archive. Offenbach was home to the Gebr. Klingspor, an internationally renowned type foundry that set...
On the Necessity of Gardening
On the Necessity of Gardening by Laurie Cluitmans tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. It is now available at Slanted Shop! For centuries, the garden has been regarded as a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale. From this long cultural...
Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2022
Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2022 starts now! The Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Design) invites you to participate in two of their competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022 (The Best German Book Design 2022) and Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2022 (Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2022). The deadline for both competitions is March 31st, 2022. Die Schönsten...
Scripts of the World
ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and the Fondation Martin Bodmer have joined forces to celebrate typographic creation and the Scripts of the World. ECAL will present original projects in contemporary typography and graphic design, from its Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programs, comparing them with Fondation Martin Bodmer’s UNESCO listed heritage through a series of lectures, events,...
12th GRANSHAN Type Design Competition
We invite you to take part in the 12th GRANSHAN Type Design competition until February 28th, 2022. GRANSHAN celebrates the diversity and richness of the typographic scripts that underpin global communication, empower communities, and enable identity. The bi-annual GRANSHAN Type Design Competition helps the type design community worldwide to become aware of the continuously increasing quality of projects and make...
The Design of the Year 20/21
The winners of Poland’s graphic design competition The Design of the Year 20/21, were awarded at a gala in December, 2021. Now it is time to present the results. Design of the Year is the first graphic design competition in Poland that goes beyond the aesthetic evaluation, reflecting on the functions of design and the social responsibility of the creators....
The Design of the Year 20/21
The winners of Poland’s graphic design competition The Design of the Year 20/21, were awarded at a gala in December, 2021. Now it is time to present the results. Design of the Year is the first graphic design competition in Poland that goes beyond the aesthetic evaluation, reflecting on the functions of design and the social responsibility of the creators....
The Design of the Year 20/21
The winners of Poland’s graphic design competition The Design of the Year 20/21, were awarded at a gala in December, 2021. Now it is time to present the results. Design of the Year is the first graphic design competition in Poland that goes beyond the aesthetic evaluation, reflecting on the functions of design and the social responsibility of the creators....
The Design of the Year 20/21
The winners of Poland’s graphic design competition The Design of the Year 20/21, were awarded at a gala in December, 2021. Now it is time to present the results. Design of the Year is the first graphic design competition in Poland that goes beyond the aesthetic evaluation, reflecting on the functions of design and the social responsibility of the creators....