Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Aldo Novarese—Italian master of type design—Zetafonts is developing the digital revival of Stadio, a forgotten reverse contrast masterpiece designed by Novarese in 1974 and published only as rub-on transfer. Developed by Letraset in 1961, dry transfer letters have been for almost three decades an essential and beloved tool to graphic designers, architects, illustrators, and...
The publication Tonight at Merlin captures the collection of posters graphic designers Mark Bohle and Raffael Kormann designed over the course of a year, for all concerts at the music and arts venue Kulturzentrum Merlin in Stuttgart. For each of the 80 posters, some of which have been awarded internationally, the publication offers an honest glimpse into the visual making-of...
The Stiftung Buchkunst (Engl.: Foundation for Book Design) invites you to participate in two of their competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2021 (Engl.: The Best German Book Design 2021) and Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2021 (Engl.: Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2021). The deadline for both competitions is March 31st, 2021. Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2021 (Engl.: The Best...
Parcours are Us!—On the exhibition Parcours Winter 2021. Despite the difficulties and limitations that the current situation around Corona still brings to each and every one of us, Parcours will continue to serve as a platform for exchange, for inspiration and for the love of design this semester. Design transcends boundaries, allows us to break out of familiar thought patterns...
The TypeTech MeetUp—Second Session with the theme Multiscript and Web typography will take place on February 26th, 2021, starting at 4:30 p.m. CET for about 2.5 hours followed by a relaxing online Chill & Chat. The TypeTech MeetUp is a forum to jointly develop, discuss, and document the current state of font technology as well as create a platform for...
INDEX is a publication series, library, and collaborative community based on continual remix, input, and output from an open-source, managed library of writing, photography, drawings, and design, by Virgilio Santos, Andrew Chee, and Marc Shillum. A collaboration across three states and two time zones, Index Issue #1 FLAT explores and expresses what we observe as the flattening, flatness, and related qualities...
The publication Spring! Der Traum vom erfolgreichen eigenen Atelier – und der sichere Weg dorthin is now available at Slanted Shop. Guide to independence! In their studies and the first years of their careers, creative people learn a lot about crafts and techniques, they develop their style, discover their talent. What hardly comes up is the economic aspect of the creative life....
The Lebanese based studio JPAG made a beautiful 3D video series called Related Stories. The series, containing of four scenes, with four different people in four different cities, was launched in November 2020 but remains comprehensible in view of the still ongoing situation. Human beings are buzzing with self-discovery and undeniable transformation. With an unstoppable contagion spread, the world was...
character#02 is the second specimag by Character Type—a blend of type magazine and a typeface specimen. Their rich archive of collected typeface specimens and type magazines has inspired them to marry the two into one creative space and share some recent type-related thoughts and insights, while introducing Character Type’s newest typeface super family NewsSerif. character#02 features a photographic essay by...
For five years now, Into the Wild—Designrundgang has been opening annually the doors to a diverse set of agencies and design studios in Offenbach, Germany. Graduates, professionals, and peers would undertake the endeavor to the “wild east” of the Rhine-Main-Region where Offenbach used to be a place overshadowed by its big sister Frankfurt. Now they call it the new Neukölln,...
The work Four Worlds displays four tapestries of artist and designer Hannah Waldron on paper. It was published on the occasion of her solo exhibition Solmania at the Studio Fotokino, Marseille—which took place from October 10th, 2020 until November 22nd, 2020. Each tapestry is reproduced as a leporello, and is accompanied by a text written by the artist. The female weavers...
Systematic Book Design? was written for a lecture the Swiss typographer and graphic designer Jost Hochuli gave for the first time in Munich in 2007, and then at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2011 on the initiative of F7. The text has been first published in Back Cover magazine in 2011. John Morgan’s foreword was especially written for...
