Neulich sind einem DUMMY-Leser die Nerven durchgegangen. Offensichtlich haben wir ihn so in Rage gebracht, dass er ein Paket mit Scheiße füllte und es an unsere Redaktion schickte. Da lag es dann eine Weile, bis wir es öffneten. Und beim Anblick des br …

Eine architektonische Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS

zine, 2024 edited b/w

In St. Gil, Berlin-based photographer Jonathan Schmidt-Ott turns his lens towards his immediate surroundings, capturing reflective glimpses of life in contemplative compositions of people and places. The collection encompasses portraits, still lifes, n …

Hans Hansen’s Analog Project, which the artist has been engaged with since the 1990s, comprises a more or less complete document of all the equipment, utensils, and materials that he has needed and accumulated over his many years as a photographer maki …

Hunde in farbenfrohen Sweatshirts, die leuchtenden Schilder eines vietnamesischen Schnellimbisses, einsame Palmen über dem Asphalt: „Ready America“ nimmt uns mit in ein seltsam vertrautes und doch ganz fremdes Los Angeles. Verpackungsaufschriften, Leuc …

MANUAL FOR SURVIVAL Überleben ist eine gemeinschaftliche Praxis. Wir können es nicht allein tun; wir brauchen einander. Wir brauchen Werkzeuge und Praktiken, die uns helfen, uns zu verbinden, zu verstehen, gemeinsam zu bauen, zu überleben in diesem Zei …

An enticing collection of before-and-after scenarios, created by master artist and acclaimed author of “This Is Not A Book” Graphic artist Jean Jullien insightfully and comically depicts a set of clever and surprising before-and-after two-frame narrati …

Guide to Concrete and Brutalist Architecture in New York City

design spasky fischer, new tendency, 2024    

From the iconic 1964 Olympics poster by Yusaku Kamekura to the psychedelic posters of Tadanori Yokoo, Japan has made its way to the forefront of impactful and effective graphic and poster design since its post-war days. Fast forwarding to the Reiwa era …

In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts haben Designerinnen Pionierleistungen hervorgebracht. Ihr Mut und ihr Talent werden vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Widerstände in Ausbildung oder weiblicher Selbstständigkeit sichtbar gemacht. Zu ihrer …

Das umfassende Buch über einen der einflussreichsten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts

Today, design occupies an increasingly expansive field. Promoters argue that almost anything can be design. But by expanding its definition, design is no longer just about solutions and innovation, but often the root cause of problems and conflict. For …

Michael Triegel (*1968) is among the most important representatives of the New Leipzig School. Along with landscape sketches, still lifes and portraits, it is principally mythological and religious subjects that bear witness to his very individual, mul …

The publication offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of the Casablanca Art School. The main protagonists, Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa, Bert Flint, Toni Maraini, and Mohamed Melehi, together with students, teachers, and associated artists, …

The publication titled Mapping the Moving Image. Media, Agents, and Sites in the Czech Context is dedicated to a critical assessment of the practice of the moving image in the Czech art world from the 1970s to the present day. Its central theme is the …

Katalog mit 56 Farbabbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Hagen Verleger mit Texten von Sophie Schmidt (dt. /engl.) Broschur, 60 Seiten, 21 x 28 cm, Auflage 250 Erschienen 05/2024 ISBN 978-3-910704-04-6

ISBN 978-82-93875-13-0 Edition of 100 copies 20 pages, 145 × 210 mm B/W print, staple bound Oslo/Leipzig, 2021

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

In October elite snowboarders from all over the world come to Saas Fee, Switzerland, to start their winter season at a high altitude snow park with big jumps and a large halfpipe. While Marcopoulos was there to make a video with American Olympian Lucas …

Contributions by NICOLA LAURÉ AL-SAMARAI, THE UNBOUND COLLECTIVE, JEANNETTE EHLERS, ANNE FAUCHERET, SASHA HUBER, ONYEKA IGWE, KAPWANI KIWANGA, SAMMY BALOJI and FISTON MWANZA MUJILA, CHRISTIAN NYAMPETA, CHRISTINA SHARPE To challenge hegemonic archives, …

Born out of her fascination for shop displays, Lisa Sudhibhasilp imagined an exhibition in a hardware store. Improvising a series of sculptural interventions in situ, the artist played with existing display structures, proposing the hardware store as a …

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, th …

Hardly known outside the famous images of young rebels and rockers are the sports images Karlheinz Weinberger shot starting in the 1960’s. In this 2nd book with images by the Swiss photographer, Sturm & Drang presents a lesser known but truly capti …

The third issue of ‘Spectre’ invites various artists to deliver their interpretation of contemporary ruins. Ruins are necessary because they question our historical records, making us fleetingly aware of a distance between a past meaning, which has bee …