Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
This year, the Executive Board and the active team of the tgm (Typografische Gesellschaft München) will once again present their ambitious training program, the motto of which is: THE MAKING OF—MAKE IT WORK! A professional mix of up-to-date expert lectures, seminars, and workshops, enriched by excursions, art, and related activities. Around 1,000 members now belong to the tgm community. Guests...
Today we’d like to introduce you to The End of My Beginning, the first full-length monograph of artist Jamal Cyrus. As the first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus, The End of My Beginning features an overview of Cyrus’ practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African diaspora, Middle Passage,...
The Tag der Schrift 2022 is an annual joint educational event organized by the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich and the syndicom trade union (visual communication sector). Tobias Rechsteiner, Chris Campe, Jan Fromm, Samara Keller, and Rudolf Barmettler will give talks and lead workshops. Slanted raffles a ticket for the whole day + a workshop of your choice including lunch! To...
The German publishing house form just published Typohacks by Hannah Witte, the first guide for gender-sensitive typography in the German language. As this is a huge topic right now in Germany, we’re very proud to finally present this book in its final form. Funded by a highly successful crowdfunding campaign in 2021, the book has already found a lot of...
The German publishing house form just published Typohacks by Hannah Witte, the first guide for gender-sensitive typography in the German language. As this is a huge topic right now in Germany, we’re very proud to finally present this book in its final form. Funded by a highly successful crowdfunding campaign in 2021, the book has already found a lot of...
We would like you to join the initiative called 33 Letters for Ukraine. It’s a spontaneous and independent event inspired by 36 Days of Type, where 33 letters of the Ukrainian alphabet will be drawn starting Monday, 7th of March. The project wants to use the power of the design community to express solidarity with Ukraine, show that it is...
