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Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper

By Jeremy Tankard

October’s Typeface of the Month: Rockhopper is designed and published by Jeremy Tankard Typography. Rockhopper plays with the idea of two typefaces in…

04.10.2022 – designmiscellaneoustypography

NaN Success

By NaN

NaN Success is the latest release by Jérémy Landes at Berlin-based label NaN. The three sub-families—Success Titling, Success Sans, and Success Text—all…

30.09.2022 – typography

Forward Festival Berlin 2022—Recap

Forward Went Day and Night: 13 Hours of Non-stop Creativity

We were lucky enough to be invited to the Forward Festival Berlin 2022 and spend two inspiring days in Berlin from September…

29.09.2022 – designevents

Yearbook of Type #6 2022/23

Movie Edition

You know the scenario: You just want to find a fitting series or movie on your streaming platform—but you can’t find what…

28.09.2022 – designpublicationstypography

Tsunagu Mono Gatari—Verbindungsstücke

Bilingual Art Catalogue and Multiscript Typography

On the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of its artist residency program at Villa Kamogawa, the Goethe Insitute in Kyoto, its director…

27.09.2022 – designpublications

Dinamo Font Customizer

A New Tool Is Born

Dinamo believes that customizing fonts should not be an exclusive thing that people need to pay lots of money for. Everyone should…

26.09.2022 – typography

Pictoplasma 2022

Recap—Conference and Festival of Contemporary Character Design and Art

We had the pleasure to attend the 18th Pictoplasma 2022 conference in Berlin on Thursday, September 15th. On the premises of Silent…

23.09.2022 – eventsmiscellaneous

Typedesign Experts Share Their Knowledge

Workshop at designforum Vienna

Have you ever wondered whether digital typography needs different rules than typesetting on paper? Or why some brands’ logotypes don’t really look…

22.09.2022 – eventstypography

FRUIT EXHIBITION X

Tenth Edition

Fruit Exhibition X turns ten and announces its latest edition: the international festival and market of independent art publishing returns from September…

21.09.2022 – designeventspublications

60 Years of Forte

The Typeface Everyone Knows

Forte, this living typeface, has been used, abused, and often overused for over six decades, since it was published by The Monotype…

20.09.2022 – designeventspublications

Showreel

The Artist Book by Sabrina Zeltner

HDMIHDGDL—or: shouldn’t audio-visual be called visual-auditory? Sabrina Zeltner aka Subrihanna has been on the road as a visual artist with various live…

19.09.2022 – designpublications

New Visual Identity and Website for Studio Algo

Everything Started From a Positioning Shift

Algo, a data-driven studio specializing in video automation, is in fact a sister company of illo.tv, the ten years old international creative…

16.09.2022 – designmiscellaneous

50U Book

50 Years United Arab Emirates Designed by Irma Boom

50U is a book about the United Arab Emirates, the UAE. It was published on the occasion of the UAE’s golden jubilee:…

15.09.2022 – designphotography

Jacopo Valentini—Concerning Dante

Autonomous Cell

Over the centuries, the cultural significance of Dante’s Divine Comedy has gone beyond the purely literary sphere, influencing various aspects of society…

14.09.2022 – designphotographypublications

Virtues of Wood

The New Collection by Bienvenue Studios

Bienvenue Studios discovered the remarkable deadwood sculptures at the center of their new collection at Hawkey’s Bay, a beach in New Zealand,…

14.09.2022 – design

Boxhorn #38

Issue “Zuhause”

The German University of Applied Sciences Aachen has recently published the 38th edition of the University’s local design magazine named Boxhorn. This…

13.09.2022 – designinterviewpublications

Soлomiya

An Independent Artist’s Magazine From Kyiv and Berlin

Soлomiya is an independent magazine founded in April 2022 in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Artists from Kyiv and Berlin collaborated to…

12.09.2022 – publications

Forward Festival Vienna 2022

Creative Exchange—Hosted by Stefan Sagmeister

From October 6th to 7th the Forward Festival Vienna 2022 takes place. Save your ticket now. For eight years now, the Forward…

09.09.2022 – designevents

German Design Awards 2023

Design as a Driver of Transformation—Go for Gold With Sustainable Communication

Whether in editorial, corporate, packaging, UX design, or branding—a well-designed product can be a carrier of the transformation process. If sustainability is…

08.09.2022 – designevents