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TypeTech Munich MeetUp 2020

The TypeTech MeetUp has been postponed. It will be hold in November, in cooperation with the Dynamic Fontday of the Typographische Gesellschaft…

29.01.2020 – eventstypography

Charting Futures

A weekly video mixing live financial data & human curation to provide a clear picture on trading Futures

The collaboration between Bloomberg and the data visualization Italian studio algo.tv continues, aiming to redefine the future of news media production. With…

28.01.2020 – designillustrationportfolio

NEVER MIND THE KIOSK FESTIVAL 2020

Creation and innovative craft

The NEVER MIND THE KIOSK FESTIVAL 2020 is a conference initiated by Dortmund’s PRINTER’S KIOSK with the aim of developing new ways…

28.01.2020 – designevents

Ost Deutsch Now

East German Now

Sebastian Jung and the publisher Kerber released the book “Ost Deutsch Now” (engl. “East German Now.”) When asked, “What is East German…

27.01.2020 – educationlotterypublications

PRISMA

Final exhibition of HSRM Wiesbaden

A beam of light flashes up. It strikes the prism, is refracted and fans out. What emerges is something new: Light in…

24.01.2020 – designeducationevents

Branded Protest

The Power of Branding and its Influence on Protest Movements

Branded Protest is a reference tool for the branding of current protest developments in context with historic relevant protest movements by Ingeborg…

23.01.2020 – miscellaneouspublications

Tesseract

by Production Type

Crisp and serrated, Tesseract is a study in modernity and restraint. As it plunged into classical references, it earned its contemporaneity through…

23.01.2020 – designtypography

The Process

Unused and unseen ideas, created during the branding process

The Process is a series of books showcasing the unused and unseen ideas, concepts, mockups and sketches that are created during the…

22.01.2020 – designpublicationstypography

Saturday Type Fever 2020

Second Edition at HfG Karlsruhe

On your marks—get set—Type Design! On January 17th and 18th the second edition of Saturday Type Fever at the Karlsruhe University of…

22.01.2020 – designtypography

Typotable No. 4

Print meets Motion

Typotable No. 4—Print meets Motion is part of the independent lecture series Typotable, where current type design and typography positions are shown…

21.01.2020 – designeducationeventstypography

Analog Algorithm

Source-Related Grid Systems

Analog Algorithm—Source-Related Grid Systems is a tool kit to create new forms. It deals with grid-based design and gives the reader techniques…

20.01.2020 – designpublications

item Magazin #1

xeno

item (Independent platform for the Transfer of Educational impulses via a student Magazine) is the new student magazine of the Department of…

17.01.2020 – designeducationpublications

Werkschau 2020 FH Bielefeld

save the date: January 31st

Once again, graduates of the department of design of the University of Applied Sciences FH Bielefeld will present their theses in the…

16.01.2020 – designeducationevents

Typeface of the Month: Arkit

by CAST

This Sans Serif gives you both: a geometric, working horse that fits in any point size and becomes a special and playful…

15.01.2020 – typography

The Assembled Human

The ambivalent relationship between humans and machines

With The Assembled Human the Museum Folkwang inquires into the ambivalent relationship between humans and machines. It’s a conflicted relationship, fluctuating between…

14.01.2020 – designpublications

EIKE KÖNIG

THE PLEASURE OF EMPATHY

From January 8th until February 28th, 2020 the Heitsch Gallery presents neon-installations, paintings, and graphic editions by Eike König in the exhibition…

13.01.2020 – designevents

THE OPÉRA

Volumes VI, VII & VIII

Those in search for the essence of humanity will discover beauty and ugliness, light and shadow on the way towards it. For…

10.01.2020 – photographypublications

Grafier

Variable Serif Typeface by Pangram Pangram

Grafier is a variable serif typeface which was released in January 2019, published by Pangram Pangram foundry, founded by designer Mathieu Desjardins…

09.01.2020 – typography