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Bauhaus 4.0 meets service & interaction design

Interaction with all senses—how will experience be shaped in the future?

Digitization and globalization are among the major economic and social contemporary issues. Can parallels be drawn to the upheavals of industry and…

26.03.2019 – designevents

Pulpo

Floodfonts

Pulpo is a Clarendon style typeface with the skeleton of Century Schoolbook. Longer extenders give text a bit more air to breathe…

25.03.2019 – typography

100 Ways to Move an A

The project “100 Ways to Move an A” by Ricardo Meyer questions the results-oriented design and puts the process in the foreground. It…

22.03.2019 – designtypography

Typotable No. 1

Current positions on font design and typography

Starting with Typotable №1, Berlin based type designer Ulrike Rausch will talk about her love for handmade craft and passion for sophisticated…

21.03.2019 – designeventstypography

Texel

by Metis Foundry

Texel is a condensed brutalist display typeface that began life as a studio-io branding concept. Drawing inspiration from military bunkers, utilitarian architecture,…

21.03.2019 – typography

Indiecon 2019

Independent Publishing Festival

One hall for publishing diversity: come the first weekend in September, over 70 magazines and small publishers from every corner of the…

20.03.2019 – eventspublications

EDCH—The Idea Salon—Review

Editorial Design Conference EDCH 2019

For the first time the Editorial Design Conference EDCH took place at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) in Munich from…

19.03.2019 – designeventstypography

see-Conference

On April 13th, 2019 the 14th see-Conference takes place in the cultural centre “Schlachthof” in Wiesbaden. With over 1,000 visitors, the event…

18.03.2019 – designeventsillustration

Sofa Serif

FaceType

2017 Sofa Sans has been released by FaceType, now Georg Herold-Wildfellner has drawn Sofa Serif in 25 handmade weights and with a lot of…

15.03.2019 – typography

Design 360°–DESIGNMAG: DESIGNMAG

Anniversary Issue

For the first time in 13 years, one of the most influential design magazines from Asia, Design 360°, launched its special edition…

14.03.2019 – designpublications

Passau Posters

The love for his hometown Passau, the love for exceptionally designed posters and the love for good typography inspired Manuel Kreuzer to…

13.03.2019 – typography

Variable Emojis

For a less stereotype world

Variable Emojis are the emojis of the future! Created as a Variable Font, they give the users over thousands of options to…

12.03.2019 – designtypography

TOCA ME 2019

Recap by Florian Greßhake

The light flickers slightly, the babble of voices ends, a video starts on the screen, the loudspeakers roar. On 9 March, the…

11.03.2019 – designevents

Tag der Druckkunst

Events on the occasion of the first anniversary

On Friday, March 15th, 2019, we will celebrate the “Tag der Druckkunst” (Day of the Art of Printing) for the first time.…

08.03.2019 – designeventstypography

Massimo Grafia

nice to type

Massimo Grafia is a linear-grotesque typeface in four weights, combining powerful hand-drawn forms with rigorous graphic precision. The neutral basic for professional…

07.03.2019 – typography

Typographic Summer Program with Dafi Kühne

Application deadline March 29th, 2019

Looking for a great way to spend your typographic summer? “Typographic Summer Program” with Dafi Kühne is an intense 2 week summer…

06.03.2019 – designeducation

16. Tag der Schrift

Lottery

On April 6th, 2019, the 16th “Tag der Schrift” will take place in Zurich. The event will be opened by Jonas Schudel of…

05.03.2019 – eventslotterytypography

Krautreporter newspaper

Printed like in the 1920th

Krautreporter is an independent, usually digital magazine from Berlin. Its mission is to help its members to better understand the interrelationships of…

04.03.2019 – designpublicationstypography