Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the design discourse since at least the 1980s. Contemporary design appr …

Akinbode Akinbiyi’s street photography takes in the world’s major cities, which he explores on foot. His images are visual metaphors ruminating on cultural change, social exclusion, and colonialism’s sociopolitical consequences and its impact on urban …

ETC. Magazine is a showcase magazine dedicated to presenting emerging art from the Baltics to the Balkans. The international magazine ETC. is designed to bring together artists, curators, writers and publishers who work in the field of contemporary art …

Next of Kin tells my story through three different generations of women. It’s not a linear one, neither a chronological one. It is an intertwining story where the past and the present try to connect with each other as well as disconnect.

photography magazine by Leah-lilith heeren

The Summer edition of FRAME delves deep into the critical factors the design industry must confront in a future dominated by AI, extended realities and other cutting-edge technologies.

From fashion to architecture to the printed page, and beyond, this issue, introducing Aperture’s new look, considers how photography and design frame our daily lives.

With her site-specific interventions, the artist Karin Sander intervenes in the structures of spaces and institutions, changes them, re-contextualizes them and calls for their participatory appropriation. In this monographic publication, the artist doe …

SuzAnNa versammelt Bilder und Texte, die einer der wichtigsten Ideen unserer Zeit Ausdruck geben: der Suffizienz. Schon längst erübrigt es sich zu sagen, dass suffizientes Leben nichts mit Verzicht, Verbot und trister Disziplin zu tun hat. Vielmehr hab …

n a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore’s bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan’s unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, pub …

Welcome to the third issue of Sociotype Journal, the type specimen for designers who like to read. Our theme this time round is Home. What makes a home? And how does power (or the lack of it) change the concept and the reality of what ‘home’ means? Joi …

FEATURING: LILITH STANGENBERG – JORDAN FIRSTMAN – COURTESY – ANGELIKA PLATEN – AIME SIMONE – ANDREAS RECKWITZ – CATALINA SARTOR – TILL BRÖNNER and many more. Cover: Josef Hader by Manuel Nieberle

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2022

X/100 — Expect Nothing — Appreciate Everything The motto of this year’s 100 Beste Plakate is enticing and delivers on its promise: Every year, the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. honors the most outstanding and creative poster designs from Germany, …

Our first Summer 2024 cover – A quadruple threat at this summer’s Olympics, Noah Lyles – aka the world’s fastest man – lives a life defined by a series of dizzying digits. A six-time world champion, a 2020 Tokyo Olympic 200m bronze medallist, and a spr …

Published as part of the completion of Thomas Baldischwyler’s stay at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome 2017/2018

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of super normal design: alongside examples of anonymous design, there are design classics like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi. With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumi …

Um mal richtig Mist zu machen, sind wir in die Schweiz. In Zürich gab es da nämlich mit Markus Läubli und Andrea Münch eine sehr lässige Art-Direktion, die dieses Heft gestaltet hat. Denn gerade der Mist soll ja besonders schön werden. Hat geklappt. Au …

Als Metabolisten bezeichnet sich eine Gruppe von Architekten, Designer und Stadtplanern, die ihren ersten gemeinsamen Auftritt 1960 auf der World Design Conference in Tokio hatten. Dieser eindrückliche Bildband stellt die Architektur der Metabolisten v …

Welcome to the darkest 032c issue ever. Entitled “The Opioid Crisis Lookbook,” Issue #45 serves the servants and exalts filth and longevity. The dossier by DASHA ZAHAROVA and DUSTIN CAUCHI, the two editors behind the magazine OCL, provide us with a his …

David Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the P …

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The Journey of Things by Magdalene Odundo has been published alongside the exhibition of the same name presented at The Hepworth Wakefield in Spring 2019. The book features 44 of Odundo’s vessels alongside a large selection of museological and contempo …

Led by founder and born rebel, Ian Anderson, The Designers Republic™ has shaped graphic communication over the past thirty years through rule-defying music work, provocative self-initiated projects and a fierce commitment to conceptual thinking over st …

PLAY is a collaborative work by Isabelle Wenzel, Glorietta Reantaso and Anita Szymczak. It is a polyphony of visions that bring about a joyful representation of women in a free, non-hierarchical manner. As authorship is put aside in favor of cooperatio …

Seit 2011 publizieren wir alle zwei Monate eine neue Nummer von Reportagen.

We are pleased to present the publication «Workolics», a documentationof the same-titled exhibition from November 2023 by Thomas Buswell andPaul F. Millet. The teal monochrome edition is a 52 pages risographprinting led by the Vienna Printing Cooperati …

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The fanzine coincides with the exhibition ‘Willy Vanderperre, prints, films, a rave and more…’ at MoMu Antwerp in the summer of 2024. The fanzine is a visual essay of the exhibition.

Nachdem das Bauen im Bestand jahrzehntelang lediglich etwas für Spezialisten war, scheint es nun keine Alternative mehr dazu zu geben. Obwohl die Weiterentwicklung des Bestehenden für den überwiegenden Teil der Architekturgeschichte den Normalfall dars …

Visual Identity Design X Type Design & Typography We’ve done it a little differently this time around. To help inject even more value for you, we’ve partnered up with The Brand Identity as our guest Editor! TBI and its team of talented writers expl …

Die 60. Biennale di Venezia, nach wie vor zweifellos das Großereignis der zeitgenössischen Kunst, hat im April wieder ihre Tore geöffnet. Stranieri Ovunque / Foreigners Everywhere das Thema, das der brasilianische Kurator Adriano Pedrosa dieses Jahr fü …

Offering an alternative to romanticised ideals of rural living, Hinterlands sheds light on the overlooked and varied stories of country life via essays, short stories and photography. We’ve had the Blue, Orange and Green issues—next up, it’s a very ple …

Collective Study is published on the culmination of Enquiry #5, the fifth enquiry of Goldwin 0 in an ongoing series, led by OK-RM. This publication brings together an ecosystem of participants including Lila Matsumoto, Karl Nawrot and Nur Abbas to form …

INDERGARTEN is the first monographic publication by Taiwanese design duo Yellow Nose Studio. The slender hardbound title portrays a concise arrangement of seating objects and vases, emphasising the duo’s fluid practice between design, craft, art, and a …

Das experimentelle Siebdruckbuch NO DRONE ZONE bringt zwölf Positionen von Leipziger Grafiker*innen aus unterschiedlichen Kunstkontexten zu einem Austausch über ihre eigene Beziehung zu Technikutopien und entsprechenden Dystopien zusammen. Herausgekomm …

Herausgeber: Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Stefan Weppelmann; Philipp Freytag 120 Seiten, 143 meist farbige Abb. in deutscher und englischer Sprache 25 x 19,5 cm, Klappenbroschur Erscheinungsdatum 7.6.2024 ISBN 978-3-95498-822-8