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

This book is A Meaningful Order by OK-RM. Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection …

herausgegeben von Annett Jahn und Ulrike Mönnig 320 Seiten 20,5 × 25,5 cm Gestaltung: Torsten Köchlin, Leipzig zahlreiche schwarz-weiße und farbige Fotografien Deutsch / English ISBN 978-3-944425-35-1

Following the success of the first two editions, Slanted Experimental Type 3.0 has evolved into an ongoing series, each edition exploring groundbreaking approaches in typography and graphic design. The third edition, developed in collaboration with stu …

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 …

Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and …

How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus h …

Coinciding with ‘MacGuffin 13: The Letter’, the magazine collaborated with Archief Cairo, a collective based in Egypt, to organise a temporary design studio in November 2023. This week-long event brought together a diverse group of young image-makers, …

ISBN/EAN: 9780571283361 Sprache: Englisch Umfang: 256 S. Format (T/L/B): 2.7 x 19.8 x 12.9 cm Einband: Paperback

How Richard Riemerschmid’s designs of everyday—but “extraordinary”—objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by th …

her sensitive photographs, Estelle Hanania captures highly charged, violent moments in the works of artist and choreographer Gisèle Vienne, moments that are at the same time both fragile and poetic. In her complex oeuvre, Vienne develops systems of sig …

Walter Benjamins früher Versuch zum Verständnis einer immer noch jungen Technik, der auch heute noch verblüffend aktuell ist. „Nicht der Schrift-, sondern der Photographieunkundige wird der Analphabet der Zukunft sein.“ Benjamins Aufsatz, 1931 in zweiT …