Grafikmagazin 01.24

In the latest issue, Grafikmagazin is celebrating the most beautiful unboxing moments. Everything in this issue revolves around fascinating packaging designs. They dive into a world of humorous ideas, pragmatism, and sometimes challenging technical aspects while a particularly close look is taken at the increasing importance of sustainability and recycling. The first issue of the year showcases projects that are paving new paths in packaging design. Sustainability and aesthetics are not mutually exclusive; they make design more demanding, but also much more exciting. Agencies like Serviceplan Innovation, Studio Oeding, AUGE, or Porter Packaging are featured and impress with their planning expertise and creativity.

Very interesting is the story about Curt Bloch who had to flee from the Nazis and survived the war hiding in Holland. He produced the small magazine Het Onderwater-Cabaret with 96 issues. After the issues had been sitting on his family’s shelf in New York for decades, they are now accessible to the public for the first time. It’s a remarkable discovery and a poignant historical document, as Curt Bloch’s words from that time are shockingly relevant again today.

Additionally, a new focus topic is introduced: What communication design can do for public spaces. Typically, it’s architects and urban planners who shape public spaces, but graphic designers can also enhance, transform, and make our environment more usable for everyone.

And again, Grafikmagazin highlights four great portfolios by typographer and graphic designer Liad Shadmi, the illustrator Zhigang Zhang, the packaging agency Think, and Studio Herrström.

A special highlight of this issue is the dazzling cover, created in collaboration with the Forum Druckveredelung and Hinderer + Mühlich. It features a new metallic hue and diffractive material from KURZ, making it particularly stylish, and vibrant paper tones from Pergraphica / IGEPA, which create a play of colors and light reflections.

Grafikmagazin 01.24

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