Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
In December of 22 we had the honor of being invited to attend and to speak at the 12th annual Typography Meeting (“Encontro de Tipografia”) in Portugal. This time it took place in Covilhã at the University of Beira Interior and stood under the theme “Matter of Type.” It is organized by the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the...
At the end of the winter term 2022/23, the graduates of the Design and Architecture departments of the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf will present their projects during the Werkschau Design & Architecture 22/23. Around 200 young designers and architects specializing in Architecture, Interior Design and Civic Design as well as Communication Design,...
Climate justice concerns us all. We all know that we cannot treat our planet carelessly. But how can we lead a socially and environmentally responsible life? Protect the environment and manage resources sustainably? Only by changing something together in order to enable sustainable living conditions for inhabitants of the Global South and future generations. Lagois Photo Competition 2023 is looking...
The Type Directors Club, the world’s leading typography organization and part of The One Club for Creativity, announces significant expansion in accepted work and a host of additional changes to its annual awards with the opening of TDC69 Annual Competition call for entries. Previously divided into two competitions, one each for Communications Design and Typeface Design, the program is now...
Readymag, a design tool for creating outstanding websites, in collaboration with Type Directors Club presents The Faces Behind Typefaces, a selection of insightful conversations about typographers who have made extraordinary contributions to the creative field—Paula Scher, Paul Rand, Gerard Unger, Ed Benguiat, Rubén Fontana, Emigre, and Adrian Frutiger. Designed in the form of an editorial, The Faces Behind Typefaces coincides...
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” With their legendary 1989 poster, the activist group Guerrilla Girls drew attention in New York City to the fact that although women are a popular motif in art, very few female artists are exhibited in museums, galleries, and art institutions. For more than 30 years, the internationally known...
WPP creative company Superunion, in collaboration with Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, typographers David Berlow and Santiago Orozco, and Google Fonts, has evolved Lexend, a legacy font system, originally developed by Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup and designer Thomas Jokin in 2019, to change how the world reads. Lexend fonts are created to reduce visual stress and improve reading performance, with particularly useful implications...
Klingspor Type Archive is the new online platform of the Klingspor Museum, where the holdings of the former type foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach, Germany, are made digitally accessible. The new catalog offers interested parties expanded access to the internationally sought-after archive as well as usability that is independent of prior and specialist knowledge. Filled with historical material is additionally contextualized...
From December 23rd we will be taking our annual winter break to recharge our batteries and tackle many new projects in the new year full of energy! From January 4th, 2023, we will be back in person for you. Please note that from now until January 4th, 2023, there will be no support from the Slanted Shop (subscriptions included) and...
Each issue of Science Notes explores one topic via journalistic formats, literary texts and artistic contributions. The design changes completely with every new topic. When they started to make the women-issue they were caught in a trap: There where so many do’s and don’ts out there, that they had a hard time to envision what their approach to this largely...
After a break of more than two years due to the Corona pandemic, FURE Conference 2023 looks forward to welcoming you back on March 17th, 2023. There are more texts in this world than ever before. Mankind is writing and reading more than ever: books, reports, newspapers, blogs, tweets, and even WhatsApp messages. A logical conclusion therefore must be: Things...
Artificial Intelligence is taking over many digital experiences, optimizing and streamlining processes, tasks, and operations aiming for a self-learning mechanism (Machine Learning) able to be trained by input in form of data and analytics. The age of co-creation has begun. In the context of art, and AI image generators, this technology opens up a new era in which humans and...
