Participate and do something good! This counts for the Charity Creative Award (CCA) of CEWE-PRINT.de in favour of the Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe. For each participant, the Oldenburg online-printing company donates 100 euros to the Sporthilfe. The best designs will also be used for a limited design edition of Deutsche Sporthilfe—an exclusive collection of greeting cards. The profits from selling the greeting cards will also go to the work of Deutsche Sporthilfe. Anyone can submit a greeting card design for a winning entry here by the 15th of December. The winner of the Charity Creative Award can expect a trip to the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Slanted in Rwanda: Judith Kaine / Kurema Kureba Kwiga
For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.
We met the American creative director Judith Kaine, who came to Rwanda in 2013 to found Kurema, Kureba, Kwiga (To Create, To See, To Learn), a public-art project that uses visual and street arts to highlight social issues in Rwanda, bringing together contemporary Rwandan artists and community-stake-holders.
The exciting works of Judith Kaine can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Judith about her attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!
Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers
Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).
Catalogue of the »Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2019«
On the evening of the award ceremony (September 6th, 2019) of the “Stiftung Buchkunst Prize”, the catalogue of the »Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2019«, which was designed and realized by the design studio “von Zubinski” from Frankfurt in cooperation with the photographer duo SCHMOTT, celebrated its premiere. Each year, the catalogue is conceived by a different designer.
Catalogue of the »Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2019«
Publisher
Katharina Hesse, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt am Main
Concept/Design
by Zubinski GbR, Frankfurt am Main
Zuni Fellehner and Kirsten Fabinski
Editing
Katharina Hesse, Carolin Blöink, Jana Mayer-Stoltz, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt am Main
Texts jury reasons
Elmar Lixenfeld, duodez.de, Frankfurt am Main
Translations
RBL Translation and Proofreading
Rosemary Bridger-Lippe, St. Ändra-Wördern (A)
Fonts
Realist by MartinPlusFonts
Paper
Fly 05 (special white), 115 g/sqm
Factory print wood-free bluish white, 60 g/sqm
binding material
NSB Feeler box, 265 g/sqm
Print/Book binding
Kösel GmbH & Co. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Altusried Krugzell
ISBN
978-3-9814291-8-3
price
20 Euro
Slanted Magazine #34—Europe
The European Union with its 28 member states today is facing difficult times: financial crisis, refugees, loss of allies, and exit scenarios—as implemented in the United Kingdom—lead to fear and insecurity. Above all, we are also witnessing how the digital revolution is creating a new image of mankind. The technical possibilities are about to go beyond what is politically and morally imperative.
So far, Slanted has devoted its editions to individual countries or metropolises in order to take a look at the design scenes. This time we are reacting towards the need of getting together and showing the importance of the voice we have and should use, to protect the freedom others have reached for us.
Slanted Magazine #34—Europe is a plea for a multi-faceted and vibrant Europe, against the backdrop of an Europe of nations, right-wing populism, and selfish politics. It is an inventory of Europe, showing a comment, a perspective, a feeling of illustrators, photographers, writers and graphic designers from all around Europe.
Slanted #34 comes with contributions from Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, (Northern) Macedonia, Malta, Moldova / Moldavia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all participants of the edition who made a significant contribution to the result with their contribution. Many thanks also to all supporters and sponsors, without whom the magazine would not have been possible in this form. Thank you very much!
Slanted Magazine #34—Europe
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: November 2019
Volume: 256 pages
Format: 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: Stober
Paper: Holmen TRND Vintage 1.6 by Holmen Paper (https://www.holmen.com/paper), MultiArt Gloss by Papyrus Deutschland
Cardboard Cover: Atelier by Papyrus Deutschland
ISSN: 1867-6510
Price: € 18.– (DE) / € 21.– (International)
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By the way: The Slanted Magazine #34—Europe is also available in a bundle with the limited Special Edition—if you subscribe until November 30th, 2019, you will get the Special Edition for free!
Slanted in Rwanda: Jacques Nkinzingabo / Kigali Center for Photography
For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.
Born in Kigali, Jacques Nkinzingabo lives and works in Rwanda’s capital as a self-taught photographer and visual storyteller specializing in documentary photography. He is the founder of the Kigali Center for Photography that aims to explore and promote Rwandan and foreign photography, support emerging Rwandan artists and explore beyond the medium. Furthermore, Nkinzingabo is the co-founder of the KwandaArt Foundation, which helps promoting Rwanda’s photography and art community internationally through festivals, workshops, and exhibitions.
The exciting works of Jacques Nkinzingabo can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Jacques about his attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!
Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers
Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).
Typeface of the Month: Blacker Pro
Blacker Pro is the result of a journey into the history of the “Evil Serifs,” whose origins date back to the 15th century. The Italian type foundry Zetafonts has designed a typeface family that offers a very extensive selection of styles, widths and weights and can therefore be used like the “little black dress” in every editorial and branding project as an all-rounder.
The design of Blacker started in 2017 with a research by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli on “wedge serif” typography, where serifs are rendered with a simple triangular shape. Although these serifs appear mostly in modern typefaces (the style was particularly successful in nineteenth century France) their origin can be traced back to the first humanist serif typefaces developed by Nicholas Jenson in 15th century, that were influenced by broad nib calligraphy.
This interesting mix of geometric construction and calligraphic expression allows wedge serifs to express both the elegance and contrast of traditional old style typefaces and the stark beauty of modern sans typefaces. When there importance in the design of the letters is pushed to the extreme, the result is a visual style that has been defined by Jeremiah Shoaf as “evil serif,” where blade-like triangular serif are combined with high contrast and old style serif proportions.
Blacker was developed along these lines, reinventing the humanist proportions and their calligraphic roots with a strong interplay between straight edges and soft curves, looking for a bold design that could feel both fresh and classic at the same time. This is especially visible in the lowercase and in the italic letters, designed to create an interesting counterpunch to the more geometrically constructed letterforms of the uppercase.
Even the weight system has been developed keeping in mind the hybrid nature of the project, so lightier and heavier weights were designed mixing different historical influences. The transitional wedge serif shape is more recognizable in the bolder styles while the thin variants are more similar to modern didones. Another feature of Blacker derived from traditional punchcutting is the difference in design between the standard display version—to be used in large point size—and the text version, modified to allow for better readability at small point size.
For logo, editorial and large size design, the display version offers tighter tracking, higher contrast and sharper corners, as well as an array of discretionary ligatures and alternate forms. For a pleasing reading experience on screen and in print the text version has been designed with lower contrast and looser spacing, and equipped with a large array of notational forms, open type features and symbols for body-text handling, and a different distribution of the weights to expand the middle range with subtle control of the blackness of the text.
In 2019 Blacker was fully revised and expanded with two condensed and three titling variant subfamilies bringing the Blacker Pro family to a total of 69 styles, all with an extended character set covering over two hundred languages and three different scripts: Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. Open type features include small caps, positional numerals, fractions, superior & inferior figures, alternate and case-sensitive forms, and standard and discretionary ligatures.
Blacker Pro is part of the Blacker superfamily and is complemented by a Sans version (Blacker Sans) and a inverted-contrast “italian” version (Blackest).
Blacker Pro
Foundry: Zetafonts
Designer: Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Andrea Tartarelli and Francesco Canovaro
Release: 2019
Format: Desktop, Web, App
Weights: Four families—Display, Text, Titling and Condensed:
Blacker Display, Blacker Display Condensed: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold and Heavy, with matching Italics
Blacker Text, Blacker Text Condensed: Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold and Heavy, with matching Italics
Blacker Titling: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold Italic and Heavy in Titling, Inline and Inline Diamond variants, uppercase only.
Price: Single weights from 25.– € (some weights free), full family (69 styles) from 225.– €
Bauhaus 4.0 meets Typography & Web Design
In search of the interface of tomorrow. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessibility takes place in Arial. Period. But inclusive communication design must be able to do so much more: It has to appeal to society in all its diversity – and is therefore welcome to think along with it. Who, for example, is meant when we talk about the human-machine interface? How does adequacy work? What can we learn from the Bauhaus when it comes to typography in times when pictures and Alexa or Siri speak? Is there an audiovisual typography? Are variable fonts the answer to diversity questions?
At the panel discussion Bauhaus 4.0 meets Typography & Web Design on 19 November in Queis, we will discuss the role and potential of design as a driving force in times of digitalisation in a pointed and provocative manner. Among others with Florian Adler, who is intensively concerned with accessibility in all media with his Berlin office, Sabina Sieghaft, who has been researching the subject of light language and typography since 2016, and Peter Zizka, who, as a border crosser between design and art, once again defines interface quite differently. Veronika Brian will take part as a special guest. As a Type Designer, she will lead the internationally renowned Type Foundry TypeTogether and is particularly committed to young designers and sustainable management.
The moderators are Boris Kochan and Ulrich Müller. The welcome will be given by Ulrike Borinski, chairwoman of the Forum Typografie, and Susanne Richter, director of the Museum für Druckkunst. An evening in a small setting for designers, teachers and students in the paper camp of the 2H in Queis – we would like to discuss with you! The evening will be hosted by the Forum Typografie and supported by the Museum für Druckkunst in Leipzig as a regional partner.
Bauhaus 4.0 meets typography & web design: Universal and integrative – in search of the interface of tomorrow, 10th panel discussion.
When?
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
6:30 p.m.
Where?
Queis (Landsberg) near Halle
In the paper warehouse of IGEPA Großhandel GmbH
IGEPA-Ring 1
06188 Queis
Tickets for 8.– € here.
Druck und Design Conference
Last week the Druck und Design Conference took place in Munich, which was initiated by the Verband Druck und Medien Bayern and the Creative Paper Conference. The welcome by the organizers stated that the aim was to improve communication between clients, producers and the production itself and to create a place to meet.
Printing and Design—as the “little sister” of the Creative Paper Conference, which only takes place every two years (we reported), is one of several formats that will take place in the future. And the high number of participants of more than 200 visitors confirmed the popularity of the new format in the Literaturhaus Munich.
Numerous printers, end customers, designers, and marketing experts met in a relaxed atmosphere at the stands of numerous exhibitors and listened with interest to the keynote speeches by Knut Maierhofer (KMS TEAM) and Stefan Karch (Head of International Sales Literature, BMW Group), who gave an outlook on the future of print production.
I particularly liked the opportunity to create my very own individual program in the afternoon and to choose from different themes. There were five theme panels from which you could choose and visit three. The choice was yours:
- Printing and Production, Sylvia Lerch, Sylvia Lerch Material & Production
- Core Competence Communication, Ralf Vogl, Druckerei Vogl
- Digital Printing, Data and Co., Helfried Prünster, Longo Germany
- The digitalization of analog, Marko Hanecke, Printelligent
- Small agency—big brands, Christian Weiss, X-Design
The Druck und Design Conference clearly stands for print, but also makes it clear that digitisation is not just a tool. In the future, it will be more a matter of use than of possession, but print has a very special appreciation, which so far cannot be achieved through digital media.
Deer Henry lottery
Three-dimensional fine papers? Deer Henry from Wir-leben-Papier.de is simply put together. Inside with a stable construction made of corrugated cardboard, outside with the noble matt natural paper surface from Gmund Paper Colors. Design meets functionality, resilience meets colour.
Deer Henry is available in a limited edition in orange, medium blue and pink—three colors from the 48-color Gmund Colors range. Slanted raffles 2 deers in each of the mentioned colors! To take part in the lottery, write an email to [email protected] and let us know why you would like to own Henry (and in which color). On Wednesday, 06.11.2019, 11 a.m. (UTC+1), we will choose the winners and contact them by email! Whoever takes part in the raffle agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!
And if you can’t get enough of high-quality fine papers, you can be inspired by the variety and send a unique greeting by mail. How does that work? Simply select a motif and paper from Papyrus’ extensive range, enter the greeting text and address in the online editor of wir-leben-papier.de and the postcard will be sent by post in the same way. After approx. 7 days, the recipient will be pleased to receive an extraordinary postcard in their mailbox.
Zukunft. Design!
How much design is in the future, how much future in design? How is our society reflected in the communication of advertising, science and politics? To what extent can, should or may design intervene at all? Can political design and public interest design change society fundamentally?
In two sessions, well-known experts will discuss the challenges of shaping the future and the design skills required for it in an evening conference hosted by the BDG on November 13th, 2019. Among the guests will be amongst others: Andrea Augsten, Severin Filek, Götz Gramlich, Erhard Grundl, Regina Hanke, Boris Kochan, Henning Krause, Martina Merz, Mara Recklies, Claudia Siebenweiber, Klaus Staeck, Ingrid Stahl.
The discourse will be introduced and animated by Michael Hardt, former president of the European design association BEDA, who observes developments in society and design from Sweden today. Between the two discussions, design legend Erik Spiekermann will share his view of things with the guests. Followed by a celebration with drinks, snacks and music from 9 p.m.
In addition, the anniversary publication Avantgarde und Mainstream: 100 Jahre Kommunikationsdesign in Deutschland, published by avedition, features 16 specialist authors who will highlight various facets of communication design.
Slanted is giving away 3 × 1 of these books. To take part in the lottery, please send an email with the subject “100 Jahre BDG” to [email protected] until November 4th, 2019, 11 a.m. The winners will be drawn. Legal ways are excluded. By taking part you are accepting the privacy statement of Slanted. Good Luck.
Zukunft. Design! Festveranstaltung: 100 Years of BDG
When?
Wednesday November 13th, 2019
Opening from 5:30 p.m.
Talks from 6:30 p.m.
Celebration from 9 p.m.
Where?
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
Tickets including snacks and drinks: 15.– €, reduced 8.– €
BDG designers free of charge.
Slanted in Rwanda: Innocent Nkurunziza / Inema Arts Center
For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.
For our researches we met Innocent Nkurunziza in his studio. Innocent is at the forefront of the growing Rwandan fine art movement. The desire to transform lives through art drives his work each day. Innocent co-founded Inema Arts Center with his brother and fellow painter, Emmanuel Nkuranga. His work is exhibited around the world from New York, Wilmington NC, Tucson AR, Portland OR, Boston, Charlottesville, and Washington DC in the U.S., to UK, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Denmark, and The Netherlands.
The exciting works of Innocent Nkurunziza can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Innocent about his attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!
Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers
Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).
Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens
A giant puzzle as a game with meaning, consisting of symbols, icons, and pictograms—hieroglyphics of our time, familiar to us from traffic signs, devices and screens, can be seen from November at the Museum für Druckkunst in Leipzig. The core of the exhibition is the translation of the biblical story of creation »Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens« by Juli Gudehus. Museum visitors are invited to explore Juli Gudehus’ “Genesis” as an oversized puzzle and actively participate in the development of a possible world language from symbols.
Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens—symbols as world language. A playful Experiment by Juli Gudehus.
When?
November 10th, 2019 to March 15th, 2020.
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibition Opening: November 10th at 11:30 a.m.
Where?
Museum für Druckkunst
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig
Tickets:
6.– / 3.– / 1.5 €
Injurial
Injurial was designed by Sandrine Nugue during the editorial design of a novel by Boll, published by Tripode, in 2014. This humorous thriller features many mediums, and specifically some pretty aggressive graffiti. Sandrine Nugue chose to design a sharp, elegant typeface to be used for insults.
The result is Injurial, a typeface made to withstand the worst, while saying it with refinement and eloquence. Its proportions are those of monumental Roman capitals, and it possesses a light weight which reveals only a very slight contrast. Categorized as an incise, or glyphic serif, consisting solely of capitals, it is ideal for setting titles.
Injurial
Foundry: 205TF
Designer: Sandrine Nugue
Release: June 2019
Format: Desktop, Web, App
Weight: Regular
Price: From 75.– €
Akademische Mitteilungen
Homeland is an ambivalent word. For some it is a synonym for security, identity, self-evidence and is able to give them orientation. The others see in it a kind of code name for nationalistic and racist attitudes, while in their love for their homeland they discover hatred for the foreign. In the AM 24 questions are being asked. To whom does the homeland belong? How does it feel, smell and taste? Or is it in the end non-existent and only a construct in our heads? What is home for you?
About Akademische Mitteilungen:
The magazine “Akademische Mitteilungen,” short “AM,” is a publication of the communication design course of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, which is located in the area of independent cultural and social magazines. The magazine appears in a limited edition of 1000 copies and is distributed nationwide and internationally in selected bookstores and online shops. The 24th edition of Akademische Mitteilungen deals with the topic of home. The content was researched by Aischa Matthes & Sibel Balac and the magazine was realized with the help of sponsors.
Akademische Mitteilungen #24 – Heimat
Art Direction: Aischa Matthes, Sibel Balac
Editor: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Photographer: Aischa Matthes, Andrea Diefenbach, Andrew Buurman, Peter Bialobrzeski, Serife Zor, Sibel Balac
Illustrator: Aischa Matthes, Alina Wenzler, Kati Szilagyi, Maggie Truong, Niklaus Troxler, Sibel Balac, Sua Balac, William A. Hall, Stephanie Wunderlich
Release: June 2019
Edition: 1000 copies
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Cover: Material Bronze embossed, foil laminated matt
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-942144-61-2
Price: 10.– €
Yearbook of Type 2019/20
At a time when it has never been easier to design, publish, and distribute typefaces, standing out as a designer is now evermore challenging. For typeface users in particular, staying up to date with the latest font trends and innovations and having to choose the right font for a project, has hardly been more difficult. The Yearbook of Type 2019/20 is a practical guide that helps users navigate the diverse, ocean-like, typographical landscape in order to choose a font that is right for them, and one that fits their project needs.
The reader is introduced to the world of typography through a series of articles showcasing sketches, background knowledge, technical information, instructions, and descriptions as well as the latest trends in contemporary typeface design.
Each individual typeface in the Yearbook of Type 2019/20 is presented on a double-page spread. Featured on the left-hand side is a specimen page, whilst the right-hand page provides detailed information about the corresponding designer and foundry, in addition to an overview of the typefaces’ characteristics. This is supplemented by an extensive index which clearly displays the fonts according to classification, as well as presenting the font designers, publishers, and explanations of OpenType features. Thanks to an online microsite, the fonts presented in the book can be directly accessed in order to either download test versions or to buy them.
– Detailed presentation of 158 recent typefaces
– Ample background information
– Index of typeface classifications
– Index of all 176 type designers and 98 foundries from 36 countries
– Explanation of all OpenType features
– Essays, interviews, and tutorials by Pedro Amado, Massimiliano Audretsch, Bianca Berning, Ian Lynam, Lilo Schäfer, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, Mark van Wageningen, Amber Weaver, Stefan Willerstorfer, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, and Benjamin Wurster
– Microsite online linking the typefaces directly to the foundries’ websites
Presented type foundries: 205TF, 29Letters, AinsiFont, Antipixel, Binnenland, BLKBK Inc., Bonez Designz, Brownfox, Bureau Sebastian Moock, BVH Type, Cadson Demak, Calligrafiction, CAST Foundry, character type foundry, Connary Fagen, Inc., Darden Studio, Degarism Studio, Design is Culture, Detail Type Foundry, Dezcom, Dominique Kerber, FaceType, FAEL, Fatype, Fazan Fonts, FBAUP, Fontador, Fontfabric, Frere-Jones Type, FSdesign, FutureFonts, Hanken Design Co., Hoftype, Hurme Design, HvD Fonts, JAM Type, Jan Fromm, Jeremy Tankard Typography, Jonas Pelzer, Kimmy Design, Kontour, La Bolde Vita, Laïc: Type Foundry, Latinotype, Latinotype México, Lazydogs Typefoundry, LetterPalette, Los Andes Type, LUCRA Designstudio, Ludwig Type, Lux Typo, Mark Simonson Studio, Metis Foundry, Morisawa Inc., MOTORTYPE, NEW LETTERS, Nicolas Portnoï, Nouvelle Noire, Nova Type Foundry, Occupant Fonts, Our Polite Society Type, P22 type foundry, PampaType, Parachute, phospho, PintassilgoPrints, Playtype, Process Type Foundry, R-Typography, R9 Type+Design, Renegadefonts, Revolver Type Foundry, Sandoll, Inc., Schriftlabor, Sharp Type Corporation, stabenfonts, Stawix Foundry, Studio Buchanan, Studio René Bieder, sugargliderz, The Designers Foundry, The Northern Block, TipografiaRamis, Tipografies, Tour de Force Font Foundry, Typearture, typecuts, Typedepot, Typedifferent, TypeMates, Typerepublic, TypeTogether, typic, Typogama, Typonauten, übertype, URW Type Foundry, Velvetyne Type Foundry, and Wiescher-Design.
Yearbook of Type 2019/20
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Creative Direction: Lars Harmsen
Art Direction: Julia Kahl
Graphic Design and Managing Editor: Clara Weinreich
Graphic Design Assistant: Laura Gäbert
Proofreading and Translation: Isabella Krüger, Lies Wolf
Microsite: Kolja Buscher
Volume: 400 pages
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-948440-01-5
Specials: Hardcover, spot colors
Printing and Book Binding: Kösel GmbH & Co. KG
Cover Material: PEYDUR neuleinen, 135 g / sm, peyer graphic gmbh
Paper Inside: Holmen TRND 2.0, 80 g/sm, Holmen Paper
Endpaper: SURBALIN seda, 115 g/sm, tiefschwarz, peyer graphic gmbh
Spot Colors: HKS 13 N, HKS 33 N, HKS 43 N, HKS 54 N, HKS 97 N, HKS Warenzeichenverband e. V.
Price: 35,– Euro
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2019
This year we were at the 71st Frankfurt Book Fair and have looked around for you in hall 4.1 to discover new things and to be happy about already known things. We made a longer stop at the Indiecon Island, because we were lucky to be presented with the Slanted Magazine among all the other great, independent Indie magazines at our booth. While strolling through the book fair we discovered the Typodarium at the stands of Hermann Schmidt Verlag and at Seltmann+Söhne the two instant photo calendars PHOTODARIUM 2020 and the erotic PHOTODARIUM PRIVATE 2020.
In 2019 Norway was the guest of honor at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, a country of great literature: from classics like Henrik Ibsen to current bestselling authors like Jo Nesbø. Norwegians read more than other European nations and have produced three Nobel Prize winners in literature. We could admire all this in the large Norway Hall.
As in previous years, the Frankfurt Book Fair has been promoting young designers with its own poster competition since 2006. Prospective designers are faced with the task of creating an original welcome greeting for the Guest of Honor. There are no limits to the ideas of the participants.
As always, it was an exciting excursion with a glimpse over the edge and many nice acquaintances. We are definitely looking forward to the next Book Fair!
Slanted in Rwanda: Matthew Rugamba / House of Tayo
For our Special Issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.
We met Matthew Rugamba, the founder and creative director of House of Tayo—Rwandan-based fashion label that using uniform and classic silhouettes to reflect on the past as a way to shape the present. Beyond fashion, Rugamba is using his efforts to empower the locals in his community. As one of five founding members, Mathew is a part of Collective RW—a local Rwandan fashion collective aiming to use their experiences and brands as a way to collaborate with industry experts.
The exciting works of Matthew Rugamba can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Matthew about his attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!
Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers
Supported by descom—Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).
Bridge Head and Text
Bridge Text and Head, a rocking duo for sparkling stories in a crisp tone and a must-have for expressive editorial typography! Bridge is the first release by an external TypeMate. It comes in two main families—Text and Head—for comfortable long reading text and fitting punchy display usage.
With three different widths in six weights, Bridge Head has the perfect voice for stunning titles. A solo career in posters, banners and logos doesn’t stop Bridge Head from rocking in concert: each of her 18 display styles can work together with Bridge Text to tell stories and build complex typographic ensembles in editorial and corporate design. The edgy editorial typefaces Bridge Text brings rhythm and clarity to long form reading. With crisp character, sparkling texture and driving asymmetrical counters, Bridge Text refines Bridge Head’s graphic qualities for note perfect, highly readable text at smaller sizes.
Unlike other superfamilies, Bridge Head and Bridge Text are distinguished by more than optical adjustments. Letterforms and details are opened out or simplified for body text. Close up, the two-cornered counter shape that gives Text a crisp character appears. The daughter of classical Didone typefaces, Bridge has a vertical stress and a modern treatment.
A type system flexible enough to bridge print publishing to digital media, with a kickass K and rebellious R, Bridge can shout out loud and make a design that can take her intensity unmistakable and independent of slick conventions.
Bridge Head & Text
Type Foundry: TypeMates
Designer: Mona Franz
Release: 2019
Formates: otf and ttf for desktop and apps, plus woff, woff2 and eot for web
Widths and weights: Bridge Head: Condensed, Normal, and Extended, each in xLight, Light, Medium, Bold, xBold and Black. Bridge Text: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and xBold each with Italics.
Price one weight: 59 Euro
Price family: 479 Euro (poss. with temporary discounts)
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Slanted in Rwanda: Pierra Ntayombya / Haute Baso
For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.
Among others, we met Pierra Ntayombya. Canadian born to Rwandan parents, Pierra has spent most of her life in North America and Europe, where she developed a passion for fashion and retail. With over ten years of experience, she saw an opportunity to bring her creativity and industry knowledge to Rwanda and relocated permanently in 2016. Driven by her ambition to elevate the fashion industry and empower youth and women, she founded Haute Baso.
The exciting works of Pierra can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Pierra about her attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!
Fotos: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers
Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).
komma Magazine Special Edition – Spam
komma is a student magazine of the Faculty of Design at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. The komma Magazine Special Edition which was published on the occasion of the Werkschau 2019, deals with the topic of spam.
Slanted is giving away 5 × one copy of the magazine. To take part in the raffle, write an email with the subject “komma Spam” and your postal address (for dispatch) to [email protected] until October 21st, 2019, 11 a.m. (UTC+1). The winners will be drawn after the deadline and contacted by email. Whoever takes part in the raffle agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!
“SPAM! The pressure is rising. Time is running out. We are surrounded by notifications. As soon as you are five minutes away from your mobile phone, you feel like you have missed three earth revolutions. We live in a very overloaded world—as soon as you go out the door, you are bombarded by advertising. Spam now reaches beyond our mailbox: there is distraction everywhere. The focus is directed by push notifications on supposedly important things. Differentiating between fake news and spam requires a great deal of concentration. The layout of the issue is precisely linked to this problem; 112 pages of loud pictures and pop-up messages—a cry for attention from all sides. We also want to stand out in your magazine collection. We need your attention to survive as a print product in the age of digitalization.”
Posters, photo series, illustrations, and texts by students as well as editorial work are shown. These deal both directly with the topic of spam and in a free, interpretative way with the topic.
The creative concept is based on an Internet browser with open tabs. The tabs in the form of a punched register serve as a navigation system through the magazine. As a special, temporary tattoos are included with the issue.
komma Magazine Special Edition – Spam
Publisher: HS Mannheim, Faculty of Design
Editors: Natalie Letschert, Annalena Can, Jakob Ostermayer, Camie Klein, Vanessa Hoffmann, Alina Wagner, Selina Vix
Format: 17 cm × 24 cm
Repro Photography: komma Redaktion
Language: German
Release: May 2019
Volume: 112 pages
Circulation: 500 copies
Designers’ Open 2019
From October 25th–27th, 2019 Leipzig will once again be all about design, then the Designers’ Open at KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo Leipzig will open its doors and promise high-quality and sustainable product ideas with this year’s focus on DO! FUTURE MATTER, dazzling entertainment on Friday evening with the new DO / Blue Hour and surprising moments in fashion, product, industrial and graphic design.
Slanted is offering 3 × 2 tickets for the Designers’ Open. To take part in the lottery, please send an email with the subject “Designers’ Open 2019” to [email protected] until October 18th, 2019, 11 a.m. (UTC+1) and add your postal address for shipping. The winners will be drawn. Legal ways are excluded. By taking part you are accepting the privacy statement of Slanted. Good Luck.
Alongside selected exhibitors in the Graphic & Media sector, this year for the sixth time the graphics conference POSITIONS attracts graphic fans to the KONGRESSHALLE. On October 26th, graphic designers and studios as well as illustrators and artists from Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic will present their positions and current work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the trends in the industry. The graphics conference is not only interesting for experts: Whether you are an experienced graphics professional or a young graphic designer looking for inspiration—POSITIONS is aimed at everyone who is interested in the latest developments in the graphics industry.
This year, POSITIONS will again be curated by Philipp Neumann. The graphic designer studied typography at the HGB Leipzig, has written about graphic design in magazines, books and blogs, holds lectures, organizes events and exhibitions and is a lecturer for typography at the GUC in Cairo. Together with Karen Laube, he runs the Leipzig project space and bookstore MZIN, which specializes in design and art publications.
These are the POSITIONS (selection)
The Zurich studio Offshore Studio from Switzerland will be there. Studio owners Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler focus their activities on “research-driven design and visual narratives.” With this in mind, they are involved in design education and critically publish articles on relevant topics of our time. The series “MIGRANT JOURNAL” deals with aspects of migration in a total of six issues.
Electric Uwe uses graphic art on the body to establish himself. The tattoo artist and illustrator describes his work as “normally selfish craftsmanship, a service for people.” He will talk about his work and about his contribution to the book “KARL FINKE: Buch No.3 – ein Vorlagealbum des Hamburger Tätowierers” (“KARL FINKE: Book No.3—a template album of the Hamburg tattoo artist”), which reports on the life of the once most famous tattoo artist of St. Pauli.
Prague is the home of Anymade, consisting of Petr Cabalka and Filip Nerad. The two designers have made a name for themselves in the areas of graphic design, illustration, animation, installation, web design, photography and book design with their very own position and are a permanent creative force in the areas of music, fashion, art and culture. Their clients include LUNCHMEAT FESTIVAL, HAUS DER KUNST BRNO, SIXPACK FRANCE, MOOGFEST and CZECHDESIGN.
Further POSITIONS topics as well as all information about registration can be found here. Admission to the POSITIONS graphics conference is free, participants only need an admission ticket to the Designers’ Open 2019. However, as places are limited, please register.
When?
Oktober 25th–27th, 2019
Friday from 12 pm to 6 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm
Where?
Kongresshalle am Zoo Leipzig
Pfaffendorfer Str. 31
04105 Leipzig
Typodarium 2020
Brexit and Trump’s Wall—it seems that borders around the world are currently being closed rather than permeable. It’s a good thing that more and more font families are mediating between languages and cultures at the same time, so you can use one font for multiple font systems.
The Typodarium 2020 therefore shows the latest font trends, the “weirdest” display types, the latest bread fonts and other proofs of the vital type community as well as a bi-script font family every Sunday. A writing system for diplomacy and tolerance. A writing system that brings down the walls in concrete heads and tears down political or military boundaries.
There are differences between Arabic and Hebrew, Japanese and Latin, but visually there are also many similarities. Communication overcomes borders. Communication needs writing. Type designers react to the wishes of their customers. And these customers from business and society think more globally and further than some headlines might suggest. The Sundays of the Typodarium 2020 define the silver lining on the time horizon: We are one world!
The front pages of the typodarium turn it into a calendar, the back pages, on the other hand, are a current font sample book camouflaged as a calendar. If you like a font very much, but you don’t see any possibility to use it at the moment, you might want to keep the font cheat sheet. Because that’s the way many people do it, we have packed the typodarium in a solid collection box. In the course of the year you will collect your typo inspiration here, always ready for use, because of course the font designer and source are on the back as well as a sample alphabet and information about the degree of development of the font.
Typodarium 2020
Publisher: Verlag Hermann Schmidt
Author: Lars Harmsen, Raban Ruddigkeit
Release: September 2019
Format: 8.5 × 12 cm
Volume: 384 pages in 12 colors
Workmanship: Packaged in a solid collection box
Language: English
EAN: 4260172810784
Preis: 19.80 €
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Eastern Design Conference 2019
Eastern Design Conference focuses on design and its context—on people and places, their connections, origin stories, and history. With this in mind, Eastern Design Conference wants to showcase great ideas, unique solutions and inspiring stories to reveal how powerful and influential is the local context in design. The conference takes place on November 8th and 9th, 2019 in Košice, Slovakia. Take the chance and save yourself a ticket!
Speakers:
SNASK + Matej Špánik
Martina Pauková
Peter Biľak
Anna Marešová
Banda Agency
Martin Pecina
Olga Drenda
Samo Čarnoky
& many more
Eastern Design Conference 2019
When?
November 8th and 9th
Where?
Tabačka Kulturfabrik
Gorkého 2
040 01 Košice
Slovakia
BFF Magazine #9
The 50th anniversary of the BFF is celebrated with a very special issue of the magazine: The photographers present their best pictures … as POSTER!
The BFF Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer (Association of Freelance Photo Designers) was founded on 18 January 1969 by Walter E. Lautenbacher. In 2013 the Bund was renamed BFF Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter e.V. (Professional Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Designers). This year it celebrates its 50th anniversary. On this special occasion the BFF published a special issue of the BFF Magazine: The best photos in poster format.
BFF Magazine #9 is a DIN-A3 large and approximately 2–3 cm thick white folder with a gold imprinted 50 on the title page seems already at first sight very solemn and special. The border is printed with “50 Jahre BFF.” The weight and the thickness promise a lot of content. The folder has two large flaps, which have to be opened to get to the posters. They are printed with information about the edition as well as the names of all participants. The posters are protected by two small flaps from falling out from both the top and bottom, which arouse curiosity with their also golden inscription “54 Poster.” The stack of posters is covered by two introductory texts, which thematically place the posters in the anniversary context.
The posters are folded in the middle, the photo is hidden from the curious observer inside. The name of the photographer is shown in golden letters on the front, and the participants are presented in a short interview on the back. Three short sections inform about the history of the photograph and the way the photographer works. The photos inside are printed full-sized. All photos are presented on a DIN A2 double page in both portrait and landscape format, which can be taken out and hung up.
The BFF Magazine 9
Designer: HERBURG WEILAND
Size: 43 × 30,5 cm
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-933989-57-4
Price: EUR 29,- plus shipping costs
Photos: © Darius Ramazani