it is a Photobook, developed during the time of covid-19. A work together with Malte Sänger.
Anfachen Award VII
The Anfachen Award VII has launched its call for submissions. This time it’s about how you perceive, interpret, and artistically implement the idea of ENERGY! Your posters should inspire aesthetically and cause a stir.
You are free to choose from which personal, political, aesthetic, or formal angle you want to approach the subject of “energy.” We accept photographic, painted, graphic, and typographic works. With your participation you accept the following conditions.
The 25 best posters will be selected by an international jury and will first be displayed in Hamburg. They will confront the public in busy streets and highly frequented squares, become a subject of discussion and reflection, and thus encourage a broad and sustained debate on the topic.
Starting in June 2023, the selected posters will first dominate Hamburg’s cityscape for four weeks and then go on tour. In this way they will be seen in other German cities and also cause a stir internationally. Therefore, if language plays a role in the design, a German and an English version must be submitted.
A maximum of three posters can be submitted. The posters are to be in DIN A0 / 841 mm × 1189 mm format. We only accept designs in portrait format. The data (tif or PDF in CMYK) upload on the Website. If a poster is selected as one of the top 25, the printable data will be requested separately.
Anfachen Award VII
Jury: Larissa Bertonasco (GER), Erick Ginard (MEX), Haika Hinze (GER), Mandy Kunze (GER), 2xGoldstein (GER), Arseniy Zhukavin (RUS),
Patron: Klaus Staeck
Submission deadline: May 7th, 2023
Opening of the poster exhibition in the streets of Hamburg: June 28th, 2023
Posters can be displayed worldwide (looking always for new cooperation partners): August, 2023
Local Print Studio
In June and September, Metapaper organizes Local Print Studio with more than 40 partners from print and design, an afternoon of full paper, and print fun.
For the Local Print Studios, Metapaper has teamed up with exciting local printers in each region to inform you about all kinds of printing techniques, finishing, bindings, as well as future trends in paper and printing. Best of all, it will all take place in one afternoon in a relaxed atmosphere with snacks and drinks.
Topics that you can look forward to
- How and where can I have my small print runs printed? And where is the right place for bigger print runs?
- What printing techniques are there and what are they suitable for? What is behind Riso, letterpress or indigo digital printing, for instance?
- What types of finishing and bindings are available in my region?
- And of course there are lots of creative print examples of every type and great giveaways.
Olaf Stein, Creative Director of Metapaper: “With the Local Print Studios, we want to offer agencies, designers, students and companies the opportunity to get as much inspiration as possible about paper and print from their own region in a relaxed atmosphere in one afternoon. From print run one to infinity, in every conceivable printing technology and with just about every finishing and binding.”
Local Print Studio
June 15th, 2023, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.: Letterpress Gallery p98a in Berlin
June 22nd, 2023, 2 p.m.–8 p.m.: Kernweine Gallery in Stuttgart
June 29th, 2023, 2 p.m.–8 p.m.: Fotostudio G3 in Munich
September 14th, 2023, 3 p.m.–8 p.m.: Kunst und Haltung in Düsseldorf
September 19th, 2023, 4 p.m.–9 p.m.: Cantina Fux & Ganz in Hamburg
Visit here to sign up for the Local Print Studio in your region for free.
Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design)
On occasion of the Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design), we are happy to welcome you to a small get-together. With a short introduction by the editors, refreshments, and the possibility to buy a copy of the design classic!
The facsimile reprint of the book Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design) is a hidden classic of german design history. In 1976 a group of students and young professors at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt questioned the way design objects were generally perceived, talked, and written about. They were looking for an alternative understanding of what constitutes good design. The group led by Friedrich Friedl and Gerd Ohlhauser started to collect ordinary things such as bottle openers, air pumps or bus timetables. These objects, all from anonymous authors, were exhibited at the faculty under the title Das gewöhnliche Design.
The approach was original enough so that the Rhenish Open-Air and Regional Museum Kommern bought the extraordinary ordinary exhibits, repeated the show, and printed an exhibition catalog. The catalog contained among others contributions by Bazon Brock, Peter von Kornatzki, and Adelhart Zippelius. The 110 black-and-white photographs provide a specific snapshot of what unspectacular product normality meant in the mid-70s.
Newly edited by Frank Philippin and Florian Walzel, the facsimile The Ordinary Design presented by Slanted returns the work to a wider audience. More than just making a design classic available again, this renews the question: How much of design is owed to the ordinary? In a time that dedicates its cultural attention almost exclusively to novelty and exceptionalism the every day utility is the silent opponent of “design.”
Book Launch: Das gewöhnliche Design (The Ordinary Design)
When?
Friday, April 21st, 2023
6 p.m.
Where?
Socialform
Rundeturmstraße 16
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
New Slanted Publishers Team Members
The Slanted Publishers team extends a warm welcome to our new team members. We are pleased to introduce Helene Hohmann (Offenbach University of Art and Design) and Josephine Schröder (Bauhaus University Weimar) as our new interns! Over the next few months, they will be working on exciting book projects and contributing to Slanted Magazine as a part of our team.
Helene Hohmann (left)
Assistance Graphic Design & Editing
Helene is studying Graphic Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and joined the Slanted team for her six-month internship in March 2023. She loves everything to do with books, editorial design, typography and knitting fun things. She is now fully involved with Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0 & Slanted Magazine #42—Books.
Josephine Schröder (right)
Assistance Graphic Design & Editing
Josephine is studying Media Culture at Bauhaus University Weimar, where she also completed her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication last summer. She joined the team for a six-month internship in March 2023 and is a fan of books of all kinds, typography, graphic design, especially editorial design, photography, and drinking a lot of coffee. At the moment she is mainly busy with current book projects.
Glad to have you here 🙂
Best Book Design from all over the World 2023
The competition Best Book Design from all over the World 2023 is an attempt to compare the technical and aesthetic level as well as the appropriate and artistic design of books beyond national borders.
In 2023 the jury awards the publication Susi + Ueli Berger. Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum 1968–2008 from Switzerland with the GOLDENE LETTER, the highest mention. The book, published by Scheidegger & Spiess (Zurich), was designed by Dan Solbach, Fabian Harb, and Maria Peskina.
In addition to the highest award, the GOLDENE LETTER, another 13 books from Denmark, Germany, Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, and South Korea were awarded. The awards are non-monetary and are intended to stimulate greater international dialogue in the book design scene. The institutions taking part have honored books in national design competitions. Only titles are accepted that have already been awarded prize in their home country or have been recommended by a body of experts.
Five jurors from five different countries—Aslak Gurholt, Billy Kiosoglou, Siri Lee Lindskrog, Maša Poljanec, and Coline Sunier—came together in the German National Library in Leipzig from February 23rd until 25th to examine and evaluate books from 30 different countries. “I think we’ve been through 600 books. It’s quite exhausting, but it’s quite an experience. It also changes the way you approach your own work.”, says juror Billy Kiosoglou about the jury’s work.
Juror Siri Lee Lindskrog adds: “Some of the books we noticed because they had a new approach to what a book can be or how the content of the book may interact with other formats, like digital formats for example. Other books were noticed because they had a very important statement or some content, we could see was very valuable to be published and spread into the world. Others were noticed simply for their formal quality.”
This year one can get an acoustic impression of the jury session in a special episode of their podcast.
During Leipzig Book Fair 2023 the publication Best Book Design from all over the World 2023, designed by Christian Lange (COCCU), will be released. This year’s 14 awardees will be honored on Friday April 28, 2023 at 4pm at the Stiftung Buchkunst booth at the book fair (Leipzig Bookfair, Hall 2 booth G600/F601). Everybody interested is welcome. Not only the 14 awarded publications and the shortlist of the international competition, but all the other submissions (around 600 books from 30 countries) will be on display at Stiftung Buchkunst’s booth.
Here you can see the list of all winners
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0
Get ready, there is a second Call for Submissions: Submit your work for our Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0.
Since Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type sold out in a very short time and tons of people continue asking if we have a few issues left, we decided to reprint the publication—roughly the same, but different. Meaning all pages will be black and white and we will add some additional work. With this call, we would like to encourage all those who missed the first call to participate in the upcoming second edition by sending in their work now!
Experimental Type deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. The issue presents projects incorporating the accident into the design process, works based on mistakes and inaccuracy, fonts that derive from a concept or a system—in the end work that experiments or goes unconventional ways in design. The publication showcases cutting edge approaches as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to ai-generated typefaces or variable fonts.
Graphic designers, illustrators, artists—you’re very welcome to submit your artwork with a statement/quote that explains your work. Submissions can be uploaded until May 6th, 2023.
After the call for submissions has closed we will curate and review all contributions and get in touch with you afterwards, if your work has been selected. The magazine will be published in early autumn 2023.
AUSGEZEICHNET!
The exhibition AUSGEZEICHNET! presents a retrospective of the prizes awarded by the Werkbund Label since 2006 for extraordinary and remarkable ideas, concepts, projects, initiatives, actions, and companies.
How can the future be made visible and what makes a future worth living? Since 2006, the Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg has been awarding the Werkbund Label every two years for exceptional projects, initiatives, and companies that demonstrate outstanding innovative, forward-looking or creative quality, serve as social or political role models, use environmentally friendly technologies, and energies or promote developments in civil society. The Werkbund Label focuses public attention on topics that make a relevant contribution to shaping the future and tackling ecological and social issues.
The exhibition presents a surprising and colorful bouquet of award-winning projects, ideas, companies and initiatives from 2006 to 2022, from Karlsruhe to the world. Founded in 1907, it is still an important source of inspiration when it comes to future issues in architecture, urban planning, design, ecology, education, and training.
AUSGEZEICHNET! Werkbund Label 2006–2022
When?
Vernissage: Thursday, April 13th, 2023, 6 p.m.
Exhibition: April 13th – May 14th, 2023, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where?
Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe am Rondellplatz
Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 17
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
Opening by District President Sylvia M. Felder and Alexander Grünenwald, 1st Chairman of Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg, there will be an opportunity for guided tours and discussions.
Registration by mail here
Slanted Gift Card
Are you still looking for a quick and great Easter gift? Then we have the perfect solution, a Slanted Gift Card you can buy easily in our shop. Just select the amount of the gift card, write a personal message and the recipient will receive an email from us!
Some advantages:
- The perfect last minute gift
- Anyone interested in design will be thrilled
- Immediately at the recipient and ready to be redeemed
- A large, international selection of publications and design objects from which the recipient can choose
- A thank you with value
Typeface of the Month: Leida
Our Typeface of the Month: Leida is a well-refined serif type family that balances functionality with a cheerful personality.
Type designer and founder of The Northern Block, Jonathan Hill, who is no stranger to serif typefaces, wanted to tip his hat to the Dutch masters, specifically, Bram de Does, and the typeface Lexicon—regarded as one of the best type designs in history. But this isn’t about making a reinterpretation of Lexicon. This is about taking inspiration from Bram’s process and how he utilized the most up-to-date techniques of his era to create a serif with a new purpose.
Fundamentally, Leida’s design follows the basic principles of readability of small text by utilizing a more condensed letterform and having shorter ascenders and descenders. Combined with open counters and lower stroke contrast, the typeface has a robust and sturdy feel across long lines of text.
Leida includes eight weights with true italics and over 900 characters per style. OpenType features consist of fourteen number variations, including inferiors, superiors, fractions, tabular, lining, circled, and oldstyle. It also has alternate lowercase a, e, g, and y, small caps and language support covering Western, Southern, and Central Europe.
Typeface of the Month: Leida
Foundry: The Northern Block
Designer: Jonathan Hill
Release: March 2023
File Formats: OTF, TTF WOFF, WOFF 2, SVG, EOT, Variable
Styles: ExtraLight, ExtraLight Italic, Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Regular, Regular Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, ExtraBold, ExtraBold Italic, Black, Black Italic
Price: Single £24.95, Family, Variable £199.95
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COVER KIOSK
COVER KIOSK is an exhibition by students of the Master’s program in Editorial Design at the Department of Design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts about their analysis of the current state of magazine covers. On the opening of the exhibition Svenja Kruse and Christine Moosmann are invited for lectures about their work and experiences with magazine covers.
Magazine covers are not just the face of a magazine, but also an essential tool for catching the attention of potential buyers. At best, they arouse curiosity about certain topics and at the same time give a first impression. In addition, as particularly impressive indicators of visual culture, magazine covers make an important contribution to the pop-cultural significance of the magazine medium.
COVER KIOSK will be opened with a small symposium on Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Two genuine cover experts, Svenja Kruse and Christine Moosmann, will talk first-hand about their years of experience with the medium. Among other things, Svenja Kruse was a cover designer at SPIEGEL and has been working as a freelance cover designer for Capital, FOCUS, GEO, stern, and Rotary magazine for six years. During her lecture, the multi-award-winning art director will share insights into the cover editors of major German weekly magazines, showing the creation process and talking about the differences between working for weekly, monthly and corporate magazines. Christine Moosmann spent 20 years working for the long-established design magazine novum, most recently as editor-in-chief. As co-founder of Phoenix Verlag, she has been publishing Grafikmagazin since 2021, a bimonthly journal for communication design which is arguably the magazine with most exceptional cover finishes worldwide. The lectures as part of the dESIGN12+ lecture series will begin at 4 p.m. in the department’s auditorium.
In the following, the exhibition of the students of the Master’s program will be opened. From April 24th to May 17th, 2023, the COVER KIOSK will open its doors in the Galerie am Max-Ophüls-Platz. Within the context of several, partly interactive stations, title pages of high-circulation German consumer magazines, but also lesser-known international indie magazines are displayed. Aspects such as the design process, but also the reception by consumers are dealt with in the small exhibition.
COVER KIOSK
When?
April 24th – May 17th, 2023
Exhibition opening on Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Program, Thursday, April 27th, 2023:
4 p.m.: Welcome and introduction—Prof. Jens Müller
4:30 p.m.: Lecture (digital)—Christine Moosmann
5:15 p.m.: Lecture—Svenja Kruse
6 p.m.: Opening event with refreshments
Where?
Galerie Max-Ophüls-Platz
Fachbereich Design, Fachhochschule Dortmund
Max-Ophüls-Platz 2, 44137 Dortmund
Lecture program in the auditorium (1st floor)
Slanted Magazine #42 Books
Now, the Slanted Magazine #42 Books — Call for Submission is finally online, submit your work and be part of the upcoming Slanted Magazine #42.
Slanted #42 Books is a magazine about books. Every day we wonder if the future of the (printed) book is tied to its sensual quality? How can beautiful books secure their place in the media and society? How are content, medium, and form connected? Is manufacturing and design quality, in addition to its functionality, just to be understood as a marketing argument?
In this issue we want to present experimental design strategies—books that go unconventional ways—in contrast to classical books. We are looking for accidents, work that is based on mistakes and inaccuracy, cutting edge approaches, as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to ai-generated content. In opposition, we want to present timeless book designs, where content dictates form.
Graphic designers, illustrators, artists—you’re very welcome to submit your artwork with a statement/quote that explains your work. Journalists, authors, or poets, we would be very happy if you’d contact us by email and talk with us about your text submission. Text contributions are highly appreciated!
Slanted Magazine #42 Books
Call for Submission
Deadline: May 13th, 2023
Submit here
Wines of Santorini
The wines of Santorini is a comprehensive guide and visual trip to the magic island of Santorini and its wines narrated by Yiannis Karakasis a Greek Master of Wine. The book consists of twelve chapters where experimental illustrations introduce each one. The layout has enough space for the reader to take time and enjoy reading the facts and history while going through poetic photography.
Overall the unique feeling of the book is something that hardly can be found in wine publications.
Bronislaw Zelek—The Story of a Polish Designer
Bronislaw Zelek (1935–2018) was a Polish poster designer, typeface designer, and painter. At the very beginning of his career, he worked as a poster designer. He is known, among other things, for the poster for Hitchcock’s film—Birds from 1965. In his poster design, however, already here the playful use of type plays an important role. He once said about himself: “The letter has been haunting me all my life, accidentally, actually I don’t know why.”
Later, this grew even more important as he became known as a type designer. He created a total of five typefaces. They were used worldwide, especially in the 1970s. His last and most famous typeface project was New Zelek, which was used in the 1980s by Mircosoft for their logo and by Wiener Satdtwerke for their visual identity. In 2017, Marian Misiak in collaboration with Bronislaw Zelek created a digital version of New Zelek typeface.
As a result of her great admiration for the designer and her discoveries of several experiments that strongly link his painting and his work as a designer, Małgorzata Bartosik has now prepared a book about Zelek. She explains that her great passion for typography and the artist’s professional achievements were her inspiration for the publication.
Bronislaw Zelek—The Story of a Polish Designer
Titel: Bronisław Zelek. In the enchanted land of letters
Publisher: Małgorzata Bartosik
Author: Małgorzata Bartosik, Hertha Grimm
Volume: 256 pages
Languages: Polish and English
Estimated release: June 2023
Price: € 22.–
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COLLISION
COLLISION by Lars Harmsen is the collision of intuition and the human experience. A visual journey of photographs, design, and ideas.
With this publication, the author mercilessly settles accounts with the last 10 years of his creative work. Numerous pieces and creations, from Slanted, PosterRex, and 100for10 to freelance works and other projects have been destroyed, cut up and reassembled. A maximum of carnage. With a minimum of diplomacy.
Raban Ruddigkeit wrote about the work: “A year ago Lars bought a boat. He has actually been sailing all his life. He sails as a designer over the trends and hypes, over the egos and the shooters. In his work he connects drops to water and waves to a sea. Now and then he expresses himself in his own graphic language. Especially when, as today, the sea becomes rougher and more uncomfortable. Then Lars brings out his unwavering compass—a true sailor only proves himself in the storm.”
COLLISION
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor & design: Lars Harmsen
Preface: Ian Lynam
Publishing direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Release: March 28th, 2023
Format: 21 × 29.7 cm
Volume: 320 pages
Language: English
Printer: Stober Medien
Bookbinding: Schaumann
Workmanship: Softcover with flaps, open thread stitching with black thread
Paper: Munken Lynx 120 gsm/ 400 gsm
ISBN/: 978-3-948440-46-6
Price: € 38.–
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DOSIS 3
A club as an exhibition venue:In summer 2021, after more than a year of pandemic-induced downtime, the Institut fuer Zukunft (IfZ) reopened its doors to host two exhibitions, DOSIS 1 and DOSIS 2. Works were produced by a total of 58 artists, who took over the premises. The book contains views of the exhibited artworks, demonstrating the (im)possibility of combining the ideas of club culture and artistic production. It also contains material on the works on display and essays. The book is not a record of the exhibition; rather, it shows how the club can be transformed, with a period of crisis causing new ideas to be implemented.
– IfZ is an electronic music club in Leipzig, founded in 2014
daemon
Daemon is a photographic novel with text and pictures from photographer Malte Sänger. Using assistive technology he assumed the position of the DAEMON in order to understand the condition and feeling of being constantly enveloped. The result of these various approaches and observations is a diffuse look into our present and also a look into the future: where will new technologies and artificial intelligence take us? The question is unresolved, and the viewer has the feeling that he is enveloped by an intangible plasma cloud – the DAEMON.
Silver Award German Photo Book Prize 20|21
Hamster
Joe Stitzlein’s Hamster is a two-tone variable color font, bursting with fun and a colorful playground for designers. Inspired by the pets of his childhood friends, the construction of the letterforms follows the tubular ‘habitrails’ in which the cute namesakes live.
It was not only the transparent, partly colored plastic tubes and terrariums that made an impression on the designer, but also the animals. Their two-tone fur inspired Joe to design his typeface as a color font. The rounded ends and bold font weights are reminiscent of the rodents’ distinctive chubby cheeks. The characteristics cuddly and chubby therefore apply equally to both animal and font.
The designers at Snask quickly fell in love with Hamster as it was the manifestation of everything they valued—playfulness, character, boldness, and color. When asked to tell the world about the miracle, they took it upon themselves to let all type-enthusiasts across the globe get a glimpse of the magnificent creation. They proceeded with the task in the only manner they knew how to do things: with a dedicated focus on craft and they brought life to the digital shapes through physical form.
And so, a Hamster workshop was installed. Fourteen human beings put their heads and hands together and decorated 86 laser-cut wooden letters with delicious layers of paint, and carefully stacked them in exquisite typographic formations. “Hoarding all the nuts,” the sculpture read. Because just like the Hamster, any true type-nerd knows how to collect beautiful things. They both work diligently hoarding things—in some cases nuts, in other typefaces, but stacking all the same. It was busy work and long hours, but for the sake of true love, you can craft for several miles. And so one sunny February day, when the last letter had been dipped in paint, it was finally time to put the letters back into the digital world through photo and film.
Hamster
Designers: Joe Stitzlein
Foundry: Fontwerk
Release: February 2023
Styles & weights: 10 colored styles each in 6 weights from Thin to XBlack
Test version: Yes
File Formats: OTF, WOFF2; Variable Fonts: TTF, WOFF2
Prices: € 50.– Standard, € 500.– Extended
Specimen PDF
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Creative concept & art direction: Snask
Photography & dop: Golden Retriever
Cyberfeminism Index
Photo credit: Harry Griffin
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Design: Laura Coombs
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Editor: Mindy Seu
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Publisher: Inventory Press
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Please do not print the digital images uploaded below in the magazine. We will provide print-ready CMYK image to your spec with more information about the size they will be printed at and in what context/proportion.
Biblio-Graph.org
Biblio-graph is a work-in-progress web application developed by Archival Consciousness in collaboration with de Appel Archive. The images are captured by staff, researchers, and the community of the archive and published on biblio-graph.org. Fragments of publications can be visualised in a timeline, browsed in a map view or as a graph of relations. The graph shows the network of people, organisations and publications in the archive. With biblio-graph, we are experimenting with graph technologies and linked data in the front end to map the collection and aggregate visual information into the database, which later will be annotated to enrich metadata and data from the content of publications.
Rijksmuseum Cookbook
Irma Boom has designed a remarkable cookbook for the Rijkmuseum. Printed on very thin, parchment-like paper, it features hundreds of full-color illustrations of objects from the collection.
In the cookbook, 50 ingredients characteristic of Dutch cuisine – from potatoes and seaweed to cod and eel – form the basis for 130 traditional and modern dishes. The recipes are inspired by paintings from the museum’s collection.
MONTHS 2
MONTHS 2 adds to the first edition, which was published in 2022. It again consists of a range of his personal analog photos with illustrations and beyond.
In a world where monocular giants happily enjoy a well-deserved break in a rooftop swimming pool in Barcelona, a pink dinosaur spends entire afternoons gambling in an arcade in Budapest, and gangs of pigeons vie in an arcade in Budapest, there’s really no need to obsess about the incomprehensibility of life. Everything is just a fog of confusion, and maybe that’s really not as bad as it sounds.
This issue features photography, illustration and—as a new element—collages. On some pages, the photo and illustration form a single unit, while others are a bit more playful, with the illustration printed on transparent paper.
At the moment MONTHS 2 is available on Dominik’s HP, again at Supalife Kiosk in Berlin, Walter-König-MQ in Vienna, and at BTWNLNS in Sydney. And others yet to be defined.
MONTHS 2
Editors and Publisher: Dominik Schubert
Release: February 2023
Volume: 62 p.
Format: 29.7 × 21 cm
Language: English
Production / Finishing: printed on recycled paper in Austria
Print run: 60
Price: 30.– Euro
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24 Stunden
„24 Stunden“ is a book project that both visualizes time and allows you to physically count it. It includes a total of 24 books, each visualizing one hour of the day and each page representing one second of the day. At the intersection of each hour to the next, the book can be put together to form a circle, creating the image of a clock.
While the books can function as a kind of calendar and offer the opportunity to record moments and experiences, tied to a very specific time, they can also be used as a stopwatch or timer. It takes about as long to turn the pages as the time indicated on the pages. The book spine with the ruler printed on it can be used as a tool for measuring objects.
The Heritage of Oldřich Menhart
To celebrate the heritage of Oldřich Menhart, Petra Docekalova and Tomas Brousil of the Briefcase Type Foundry in Prague decided to digitize his typefaces. In tribute to the 125th birthday of the Czech typographer, they released the digitizations of high-quality typefaces. Due to Menhart’s calligraphic talent and strong sense of typography, he crated an intriguing legacy.
His typefaces do not contain a straight line, but a whole series of imaginative forms and specific details. Nevertheless, Menhart’s typefaces were to be found in the briefs of many printers in the former Czechoslovakia. One of his lifelong goals was to enable others to experience Czech culture by creating typefaces especially designed for use in Czech. Petra Docekalova and Tomas Brousil did intensive research in museum archives and studied Menhart’s estate and correspondence. They also collected his prints and rare bibliophile works. This allowed them to gather enough background material for a high-quality digitization of his works. The result is the first five typefaces. Thus, they present you a book typeface, Figural, the large poster typeface Monument, the calligraphic typeface Parliament, Unciála, as the absolute pinnacle of Uncial design processing according to Petra Docekalova and Tomas Brousil, poster Gothic antiqua Vajgar.
The Heritage of Oldřich Menhart
Designers: Petra Docekalova and Tomas Brousil
Foundry: Briefcase Type Foundry
See the website here