A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world’s most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude …

A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world’s most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude …

To look at things #50 – A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry

Each issue features diverse content — essays, interviews, portfolios, re-publications, fiction as well as visual works — to satiate both type design experts, with contributions from or about recognized practitioners just as well as recent students, and …

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

Otto the font can cosplay as a display face, with its subtly cartoonish presence and anthropomorphic shapes. It was developed and designed by Amsterdam-based graphic designer Sam de Groot and type-designer-meets-actor Laura Opsomer Mironov, and is a ty …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

_Kulturgeschichter Abriss und Einordnung _Mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen _Zusammenstellung der besten Monospace-Schriften _Handbuch, Nachschlagewerk und Inspirationsquelle in einem Monospaced-Schriften gehen auf die Schreibmaschine zurück und sind ch …

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, …

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 …

An original account of the life and work of legendary designer Jan Tschichold and his role in the movement in Weimar Germany to create modern graphic design. Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design …

Faire – To look at things #22

Issues 39 to 41 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

Zine No.29 in the Hato Press Zine Series: Rabbit Duck Turtle by Radim Pesko The first typographic edition in the Hato Press Zine Series; Rabbit Duck Turtle sees type designer Radim Pesko create a complete alphabet in upper and lower case. The typograph …

Architects and designers critically examine their ability to contribute to the discussion on social issues and challenges This issue of OASE explores the role of architects as public intellectuals and the ways in which they contribute to society beyond …

New Aesthetic 1 A Collection of Experimental and Independent Type Design

The history of architecture can not only be read as an accumulation of buildings and designs, but also as a pendulum movement between the appreciation and the rejection of projects, oeuvres, and positions, driven by varying arguments. In addition to co …

Three years after Shape Grammars (2020), Jannis Maroscheck returns with an updated look on machine-generated graphics and the core motif of mass produced ideas: Latent Figures. Looking for forms of expression hidden between ancient runes and y2k logos, …

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin. The texts draw pa …

European architecture is characterised by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas, and influences. In recent decades, this process has intensified. Ideas developed in one region can migrate and bear fruit elsewhere. Existing architectural conventions ar …

Letters and typefaces not only transport information but also create a feeling and have a personality. Lettering takes this a step further—with its movement, artistic strokes, and variety, it has the potential to radiate a whole range of energies and t …

A total of 400 books which appeared in 2022 were entered into the annual competition for a chance to be named among the most beautiful Swiss books. All books were judged by a new jury chaired by Sereina Rothenberger. The designers of this catalogue too …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

Ein praxisorientiertes Handbuch, das Gestaltern hilft, ihre Daten so für den Druck aufzubereiten, dass ein optimales Ergebnis erzielt wird. Dieses umfangreiche Nachschlagewerk weiht den Leser in wesentliches Grundwissen für die Aufbereitung von Druckda …

PAULA SCHER: TYPE IS IMAGE – MÜNCHEN, PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE – Catalogue ed. by Angelika Nollert. Munich 2023/24. Beitr. von Caroline Fuchs & Angelika Nollert. 31 x 41 cm. 208 lose ineinandergelegte S. mit 101 farb. Abb. (herausnehmbare Poster).

Jedes Jahr prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die innovativsten und wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Jahrbuch, das von wechselnden Grafiker:innen und Designbüros entwickelt wird, stellt alle Gewinn …

In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary desi …

Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design. #31 — An Edition: The Serving Library. Interview with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey by James Langdon Dot Dot Dot magazine has always antagonised factions of the graphic design community. Wh …

In 1929, ten years after the Bauhaus was founded, Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau launched the exhibition “New Typography.” László Moholy-Nagy, who had left Dessau the previous year and had earned a reputation as a designer in Berlin, was invited to exhibi …

16 × 24 cm, 504 pages, English, hardcover with Peydur neuleinen, offset printing with 10 HKS spot colors, thread-stitching, website access to see and test typefaces ISBN 978-3-948440-41-1

What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular autho …

Tagging wurde bisher selten ernsthaft untersucht. Die Tag Conference ist ein erster Versuch, das zeitgenössische Tagging begrifflich zu fassen und es neben seinen zahlreichen, aber weitgehend ignorierten historischen Vorläufern zu untersuchen. Das info …

Letters from M/M (Paris) is a comprehensive study of the typefaces produced by Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak since they founded their influential art and design practice, M/M (Paris). For the first time, ninety of the designers’ typefaces are …

Books in reverse chronological order 2022-1986. With comments here and there. Text by Irma Boom, Rem Koolhaas, Michael Rock, Mathieu Lommen, Louwrien Wijers, Nina Stritzler-Levine & Johan Pijnappel. 3rd rev. & expand ed. Cologne 2022. 51,5 x 67 …

The Nest is a book, conceived and designed by Scott Massey, about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. The Nest is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, …

Le Corbusier’s buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier’s work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Books …

Herausgeberin: Ricarda Löser Gestaltung: Ricarda Löser 144 Seiten 3 Abbildungen 13,5 x 20,5 cm, Hardcover 978-3-944903-87-3 (deutsch) 500 Exemplare Sein Leben beginnt ausgerechnet mit dem Satz „er atmet“ – eine künstlerische Textcollage. Dieser Text be …

Verlag Kettler, D-Dortmund deutsch/englisch, 704 Seiten, 16,5 × 24 cm, Softcover Gestaltung: Claudiabasel Grafik & Interaktion, CH-Basel ISBN 978-3-86206-995-8

Museums facilitate encounters among visitors, objects, and stories while also facilitating the staging of these visits. In the 19th century, the transition from city to museum interior was dramatized, while in the 20th-century post-war period the “barr …

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New Aesthetic 3 A Collection of Experimental and Independent Type Design by Leonhard Laupichler & Sophia Brinkgerd (ed.) 272 pages ISBN 978-3-9820440-9-5 Design and art are constantly evolving. In both professions, we either risk that our work is t …

Monospaced fonts are fascinating! Mono Moment is aimed at type designers typographers and designers, but also at people who are dealing with type design for the first time. The publication thus becomes a reference book and source of inspiration! Friedr …

C24 is an independent platform, exploring collaboration as a creative practice. By interviewing young talents, students or legends and featuring their projects, the platform gives an insight into the creative process. The presented projects range from …