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 …

Als Reaktion auf den ersten Corona-Lockdown im Frühjahr 2020 begann der Fotograf Ingmar Björn Nolting (*1995) einen Roadtrip durch Deutschland. Dieser führte ihn unter strengen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen über die Zeitspanne von einem Jahr rund 25.000 Kilo …

Taking as her inspiration Korea’s demilitarized zone (DMZ), which has divided the peninsula since the end of the Second World War and is today one of the world’s most heavily militarized borders, the South Korean-born poet and translator Don Mee Choi h …

The Slanted team went to Amsterdam to check out the design scene and fell for the charm of the city’s century-old “bruine kroegen” (brown cafes). Seeking refuge after bike rides to design studios, they were quickly won over by the cozy ambiance, dark w …

Das gewöhnliche Design (The ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of German design history, something the vinyl era would have called a B-side hit. As early as 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of A …

Buch Handlung Welt – in drei Worten − wurde von der Künstlerin Hilka Nordhausen 1976 im Hamburger Karolinenviertel eröffnet. Ein Laden, der Unmengen an Drucken, Heften, Broschüren, Taschenbüchern, Publikationen aus dem Underground, aus Übersee, de …

For a change, no photos from my own archive: For my farewell from teaching at the university in July 2021, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) organized a festive programme with contributions from artists, colleagues, friends, students and graduates …

„In 1995 I bought a second-hand Maserati. I didn’t want to believe the somewhat dubious reputation of the brand, as the ambience and the engine promised me cultivated travelling without boredom. In the following years, I therefore sat at the wooden ste …