RINDERMARKT München

Posted on by Julia Kahl

When an online printing company like FLYERALARM suddenly publishes its own magazine, you first think of a presentation of its own portfolio, machinery or special offers – I was very positively surprised when I browsed through the 192-page publication and read it in.

With interesting stories and interviews, the RINDERMARKT magazine unfolds the panorama of a lively, livable and extremely versatile city: Munich. Personalities from the cultural, business and leisure life of the city have their say and provide exciting insights – into their work, into their lives and into the pulse of a city that likes to cultivate its own charm and character.

The singer-songwriter, actor and poet Konstantin Wecker talks in an interview about the courage to freedom, the photographer Heinz Gebhardt brings back the late 60s and early 70s with his pictures, when Munich has finally become a big city. Fashion designer Sarah Kaldewey, on the other hand, takes it personally and says: “Quality will never be just a short-lived trend.” More than 50 insider tips with useful and good addresses for going out, enjoying, relaxing and staying overnight round off the whole thing.

“With the new magazine, we want to put a city in the limelight where everything is relaxed instead of slow, fashionable instead of different and traditional instead of traditional,” says Rolf Dittrich, press spokesman for FLYERALARM.

And the name? FLYERALARM has been present in Munich for a few months now with an exclusive lounge for its customers. The address: Rindermarkt 16 – formerly a marketplace for livestock and now a shopping street, right in the heart of Munich.

With the RINDERMARKT magazine, FLYERALARM Media presents its new division, which was established last year: Here, customer and employee magazines as well as other corporate publications are created from a single source – research, text, photography, layout, and printing.

In addition to direct mailing to business customers, RINDERMARKT München will also be on display at selected partners and customers as well as in the new FLYERALARM Lounge at Rindermarkt 16. More information here.

RINDERMARKT Munich

Publisher: Thorsten Fischer, FLYERALARM Media
Art Direction: Eva von Tsurikov
Edition: 2,500 pieces
Publication cycle: up to four times a year.
Format: DIN A4
Language: German
Binding: PUR adhesive binding
Print: FLYERALARM
Color: CMYK
Refinement: scratch-resistant matt film with partial relief varnish
Paper: 300g Multiart-Silk cover, 115g Circleoffset White

Interview with Amit Trainin

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In this series with illustrators from Tel Aviv we introduce you to the most exciting Israeli creative minds in graphic design, animation and illustration. We started with interviews with Rutu Modan and Itamar Daube. More will follow.

Amit Trainin writes on his portfolio website: “I am an Israeli illustrator who has drawn people, trees, frogs, cities and endless other odds and ends.” And it’s true that some of his eight children’s books so far are about people and frogs. But his last children’s book describes the adventures of a turtle—“Tot the Tortoise in Emek Refaim,” with text by Dafna Ben-Zvi. Amit also illustrates for leading Israeli newspapers such as Yedioth Ahronoth, Maariv and Haaretz as well as for international magazines such as New York Magazine. He frequently participates in exhibitions and workshop projects, most recently in the cooperation project Art BnB in Jerusalem. From 2005–2016, Amit taught illustration at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where he graduated, and from 2006–2016 was Head of Visual Communication at Minshar Art School, Tel Aviv.

What was the last cooperation project you participated in?

Art BnB was a ten day project organized by the municipality of Jerusalem in December 2018. For the Jerusalem project we created outdoor artworks on window panes. It was about stories that correspond to the seasons. Israeli, German, American, Portuguese and Polish artists took part. We lived together in a huge facility, like a Big Brother apartment. Art BnB is part of Jerusalem’s efforts get a place in the art world.

Would you tell us something about the French Design Week at Bezalel Academy?

It is part of the Saison France Israel organized by the French Embassy, the Institut Français and the French ministry of culture with 120 events across Israel. At Bezalel Academy, I gave my illustration students a task. The students were asked to describe an imaginary visit to Paris in a diary. They worked on site for three days, resulting in travel books and an exhibition. Five French artists also gave workshops at Bezalel Academy during French Design Week.

For Tel Aviv Illustration Week in November 2018, you had a project in Jaffa?

That was a great experience. It was a project together with artists Itzik Rennert and Yana Bukler, each of us chose a theme from our families. Some stories evolved around family memories related to the Holocaust, others, like mine, evolved from the experience of their youth in a kibbutz. You know that children in a kibbutz are cared for in children’s houses, separately from their parents. As a child, you heard terrible sentences from the kibbutz educators. The audience could immediately identify with it, because many have experienced it themselves. The Tel Aviv Illustration Week is organized by the Tel Aviv municipality, but the artists come from all over Israel.

Tell us about the Negotiation Matters Workshop with the Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv.

It started in May 2018 with a four-day-workshop at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. I went with the students. We developed the themes of the historical negotiations to be presented in the exhibition. The idea is that negotiations may have changed the world more the armed conflicts, but history books and popular narrative tend to focus on the latter. It was organized by the Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv and the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel.

Can you tell us something about the idea behind Negotiation Matters?

My poster presents the Good Friday Agreement that ended the long Northern Ireland conflict in 1998. I decided to portray both sides of the conflict dancing the famous Irish River Dance as a symbol of harmony, equality and peace. The poster was made in a linoleum-cut technique to honor the great tradition of this technique. As an Israeli, I can only hope that we will soon have our own “Good Friday Agreement” here as well.

More about Amit Trainin here.

TIME

Posted on by Julia Kahl

In this exhibition, the Berlin designer Raban Ruddigkeit shows a series of wall clocks that deal with TIME. To date, 120 pieces have been created that consist of letters instead of numbers. Not only each word on the individual wall clocks is unique, but also each letter.

TIME by Raban Ruddigkeit
16th—22th of May 2019

Gallery Garten 114
Gartenstraße 114
10115 Berlin

Daily 12—7pm
Opening 16th of May, 6pm—12pm

Europe Poster

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Europe Poster is an initiative of European designers to raise awareness for the upcoming European elections in May 2019. Together, they want to take a stand for democracy and Europe in order to motivate as many people as possible to make their vote count. Europe Poster was founded by two German design students and is conducted freely and independently. Anyone can participate, including you! They are looking forward to anyone participating, sending one or more posters. Even more so, they are happy if you also make use of your right to participate in the European democratic elections. After all: every vote counts!

How it works:
Check the requirements, design your own poster (according to the suggested contents below) and send us your draft, including personal information, via e-mail at [email protected]. In return, they will post your poster on their Instagram page @europe.poster and link your profile in the description. Surely, you are free to also post the work on your own Instagram or distribute it elsewhere.

 

 

 

DWeb.Design #2: Typonight

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In February, DWeb launched a series of events for designers to bring back the variety in design and typography and to secure the upcoming digital industries from the visual sameness.

The first edition “Embrace variety” went out as Dribbble Berlin meet-up. They announced that the next event would happen in mid May with a topic around typography and that the series of events will continue as DWeb.Design. Sticking to the plan, mid May means May 15th, 2019. This time they host DWeb.Design Typonight (their night starts at 18:00—so there will be some sun).

Agenda:
18:00: intro “Hey, it’s a blockchain! Why we talk typography?”
18:20: opening keynote by local typography hero (intentionally keeping his name in secret by the end of the next week. Stay tuned!)
18:50: talk: Frank Rausch “Interactive Text”
19:20: talk: Yulia Popova “Women in Typography” book pre-launch introduction
19:50: talk: We are looking for a font creator to step to a stage. If you see yourself in this role, drop a line at [email protected]

DWeb.Design is still and always will be on a mission to empower and inspire designers to consider trends, to create new standards that ensure every brand or product will keep their personality and authenticity, to create design that “steps too far.” And of course, help companies create a more delightful and memorable communication with people. DWeb.Design is a part of DWeb, a series of events driven by local communities toward a global goal—building the web we deserve. Currently they are operating in Berlin (powered by Jolocom) and in San Francisco.

When?
May 15th, 2019
18:00 o’clock

Where?
Betahaus
Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 23
Berlin

 

Element Talks / European Design Festival in Warsaw

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For 13 years European Design Festival has been taking place each year in a different city of our continent. This time it is going to be Warsaw which for a couple of days will become the European capital of graphic design. The event will take place between 6th and 9th of June and will be abundant with inspiring lectures, exhibitions, workshops, graphic design studio tours, film screenings, as well as formal galas of two competitions for graphic designers. The festival aims to promote European and Polish design and to present the latest tendencies and practices that are worth following. The organizers await both professionals and design professionals searching for inspirations for creative action and time spending.

The multitude of scheduled attractions will let the participants discover the design face of Warsaw, as well as make international contacts which will pay off in the future. As a part of the festival, a number of unique events will be held—with or without an entry fee: There will be a couple of exhibitions devoted to contemporary graphic design in Poland and Europe. The spectators will have a chance to familiarize themselves with e.g. the best designed publications of the year 2018. During the Graphic tours the participants will be able to visit the most interesting design studios in Warsaw and get to know the designers working there. They will also have a chance to see how the designers work and ask them a couple of questions.

The organizers would like to encourage participants to take part in free-of-charge screenings of films devoted to design or designers. They will have a chance to see e.g. “Helvetica” which tells the story about one of the most famous typefaces of the world and the stories of people connected with it. You cannot miss practical workshops which are targeted at both professional designers and amateurs. The participants will familiarize themselves with specific aspects of design and acquire new soft skills. The classes will be devoted to such topics as: calligraphy and lettering, collages, conflict solution exercises, creative coding—graphic animation or design safari.

Element Talks Conference 

A regular event on the design map of the events in the capital are the Element Talks (June 8th to 9th, 2019) this time as a part of the festival. As every year, the organizers expect ca. 2,000 participants from all across Europe. As a part of the conference there will be lectures held on two stages, practical workshops, Element Market fair and intense networking sessions. For those who works in the creative sector, it cannot be missed!

More information here.
The tickets are available here. 

Together with the European Design Festival, Slanted is giving away four tickets for the Element Talks! To participate simply write an email until 15.05.2019, 11 a.m. (UTC +1) to [email protected] with the subject “Element Talks Warsaw.” The winner will be drawn after the deadline and contacted by email. Who participates in the raffle, agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!

European Design Festival—Element Talks Conference 

When?
European Design Festival:
June 6th to 9th, 2019 
Element Talks Conference:
June 8th to 9th, 2019

Where?
Mińska 65
Warsaw
Poland

Slanted #33—Prague

Posted on by Julia Kahl

In August 2018 the Slanted editors and photographer Dirk Gebhardt took a close-up look at the contemporary design scene of Prague. They had a number of good reasons to visit Prague: They wanted to meet some good friends and great designer—but also wanted to immerse themselves in history and culture, see Josef Koudelka’s documentation of the Velvet Revolution, experience the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, enjoy the musical elegance of Dvorak and save their souls by inhaling the aura of UMRPUM, Prague’s Academy of Art, Architecture and Design.

Far away from overtourism at Old Town Square, Charles Bridge, or Prague Castle, Slanted met some of the most amazing designers who know where they’re from and their roots give them a clear vision of where they want to go. They are the ones shaping the new Prague. You can find their brilliant works in the new issue, and a deeper look at their opinions and views through video interviews that can be watched online on our video platform for free: slanted.de/prague.

Illustrations, photography, interviews, essays, and a huge appendix with many useful tips and the best Czech typefaces complement the issue thematically.

Slanted Magazine #33 comes with contributions by 20YY Designers, Patrik Antczak, Anymade Studio, Artishock, Michal Bačák, Peter Bankov, Filip Blažek, Braasi Industry, Briefcase Type Foundry, Tomáš Brousil, Monika Čejková, Čezeta motors, Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová, Design Herynek, Displaay, Petra Dočekalová, Kristina Fišerová, Fontstore, Karel Haloun, Heavyweight Digital Type Foundry, Martin Hrdina, Jitka Janečková, Kolektiv Studio, Jan Šrámek Kolouch, Linda Kudrnowská, Laboratoř, Františka Lachmanová, Zuzana Lednická, LINOSTOCK, Ian Lynam, Dermot Mac Cormack, Matýaš Machat, Man—Machine Type, Master & Master, Simon Matejka, Monsters, Veronika Rút Nováková, Oficina, OKOLO, PageFive, Parallel Practice, PBG, Pavla Pauknerová, Tomáš Pospiszyl, ReDesign, Rosetta Type Foundry, Side2, Radek Sidun, Adam Štěch, Storm Type Foundry, Studio adela&pauline, Studio Marvil, Studio Najbrt, Studio Novák & Balihar, Studio Petrohrad, Suitcase Type Foundry, Superior Type, superlative.works, Marta Sylvestrová, taketaketake, Tomski&Polanski, TypeTogether, uathentic, Rostislav Vaněk, and _ZVUK_.

In addition to this exciting publication, a limited special edition is available. It contains a photographic newspaper by photographer Dirk Gebhardt with a text by Jan Arndt catching the raw pubs of old Prague. It is complemented by a Czech Design Map—a practical printed map for design shopping.

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 #33—Prague

Publisher / Design: Slanted Publishers
Portrait Photography: Dirk Gebhardt
Release: May 2019
Volume: 256 pages
Format: 16 × 24 cm

Language: English
Printing: Stober
Paper: Holmen BOOK Extra 2.0 + TRND Vintage 1.6 by Holmen Paper 
Cover: Invercote Creato by Iggesund Paperboard
ISSN: 1867-6510
Price: € 18,- (DE) / € 21,- (International) 

GET YOUR COPY HERE.
Or subscribe to a 2 Year Subscription and receive the Prague Special Edition with discount code WeLovePrague for free!

 

LOFT & NOW HOUSING

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The design scene in Germany is growing steadily and Baden-Württemberg in particular is becoming more and more creative. Just how creative it is can be seen at LOFT – Das Designkaufhaus from May 24th to 26th, 2019 at Messe Karlsruhe. Around 200 designers and labels from Baden-Württemberg, the whole of Germany and neighbouring countries will be showing modern design and innovative design. On 15,000 square metres, the design professionals present products from the fields of fashion, accessories, living and lifestyle. Parallel to the LOFT, the NEW HOUSING – Tiny House Festival will take place in the atrium of the exhibition grounds.

Slanted is giving away 3 × 2 tickets for the LOFT with NEW HOUSING! To participate simply write an email until 14.05.2019 (UTC +1) to [email protected] with the subject “LOFT2019.” The winner will be drawn after the deadline and contacted by email. Who participates in the raffle, agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!

From the Pop-Up-Store to the Exhibition Hall
Successful designers such as Riaz Dan from Karlsruhe are banking on the fan-shaped city. In March, the 24-year-old opened his pop-up store here with a selection of around 100 different styles that he produces each year. At LOFT in May, Riaz Dan presents new products from his collection, including linen shirts, an oversized crop top hoodie and new jeans and leather jackets. “For me, Karlsruhe is still my home and my base. Currently we are present with our collections at more than 200 fairs per year. The LOFT is always one of the highlights of the year for me,” says Riaz Dan.

NEW HOUSING: When design becomes living space
Minimalist and individual – that’s what the Tiny House stands for. The Tiny House Community from German-speaking countries meets in Karlsruhe. At the NEW HOUSING—Tiny House Festival visitors will find Tiny House manufacturers, DIY builders, architects and associations. In addition, they can visit various Tiny Houses and discuss the alternative living trends.

Simple-looking design from local craftsmanship
Those who live on a few square metres do not have to do without stylish design. Some LOFT exhibitors show that the new living trend Tiny Houses and innovative design complement each other perfectly. Based on a stable camping chair, the “Campier” by Ökofaktum impresses with its simple design and is thus the living utensil that design lovers and Tiny House owners can use indoors and outdoors. Every millimetre of the construction is carefully thought out, using oak and ash wood, combined with robust natural materials such as cotton and linen canvas and certified organic leather. Meanwhile, the range has been extended to include camping stools and the multifunctional camping table. In the spirit of minimalism, all Hessen products are foldable.

When?
May 24th to 26th, 2019

Opening hours
Friday 12–21 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m.–19 p.m.

Where?
Messe Karlsruhe
Messeallee 1
76287 Rheinstetten

New video interviews online from Prague

Posted on by Julia Kahl

In August 2018, the Slanted editors and photographer Dirk Gebhardt took a close-up look at the contemporary design scene of Prague. They had a number of good reasons to visit Prague: They wanted to meet some good friends and great designer—but also wanted to immerse themselves in history and culture, see Josef Koudelka’s documentation of the Velvet Revolution, experience the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, enjoy the musical elegance of Dvorak and save their souls by inhaling the aura of UMRPUM, Prague’s Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design.

Far away from overtourism at Old Town Square, Charles Bridge, or Prague Castle, Slanted met some of the most amazing designers who know where they’re from and their roots give them a clear vision of where they want to go. They are the ones shaping the new Prague.

You can find their brilliant works in the new issue, and a deeper look at their opinions and views through numerous video interviews that can be watched online on our video platform for free: slanted.de/prague.

Berlin Letters Festival

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From the 16th–18th of May 2019, more than 200 creative minds will meet, whose heart beats for lettering, sign painting, calligraphy and type design at the Berlin Letters Festival. More than 25 talks and 10 workshops are just a few reasons to buy tickets. A festival ticket costs 300.– Euro and if you enter the discount code Slanted50, you get it for 250.– Euro.

And because winning is even better, Slanted is giving away a ticket for the Berlin Letters Festival! To participate, just write an email until May 9th,2019 11 a.m. (UTC +1) to [email protected] with the subject “Berlin Letters Festival”. The winner 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!

Berlin Letters is a new festival for lettering, sign painting, calligraphy and type design. It offers three days of exchange and inspiration for designers and all font enthusiasts—with lectures, professional workshops and surprises. For listening, watching, laying on hands and networking. The festival is limited to 200 participants. The additionally bookable 10 half-day and full-day workshops are held in small groups; personal care is guaranteed.

When?
16th–18th of May 2019

Where?
Colonia Nova
Thiemannstr. 1
Berlin

 

Miss Read 2019

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From today on, the Berlin Art Book Festival Miss Read 2019 is taking place until May 5th, 2019 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, and will bring together about 300+ exhibi­tors. Throughout the weekend, a wide selection of international publishers, art periodicals, artists and authors will be featured.

With this year’s special focus on Scandinavian publishers, Miss Read will be composed of a series of ­lectures, discussions and book launches with the common mission of exploring the boundaries of contemporary pub­lish­ing and the possibilities of the book.

In conjunction, the seventh Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. With Alice Cannava, Natalie Czech, Alex Hamburger, Karl Holmqvist, Bernadette O’Toole, Eugene Ostashevsky, Cia Rinne and Paul Stephen.

When?
May 3rd to 5th, 2019

Where? 
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Germany

Typeface of the Month: Heldane

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“Like the Neanderthal face, Heldane is a hybrid, a bastard, a fabrication. I vultured my way through history picking the bones from old fonts I like to make something new. I hesitate to call it original, but it is new. But only in a strict temporal sense—that is, this exact typeface hasn’t existed before.” (Kris Sowersby, Heldane Design Information)

Kris Sowersby, the designer of Heldane, a contemporary serif family, was inspired by the Renaissance works of Hendrik van den Keere, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon and Simon de Colines. Rather than emulating a specific font, Heldane amalgamates the best details from these sources into a cohesive whole. The characteristics of this typeface date back five centuries to its origins, but the new combination creates a typeface whose clarity and tranquillity remains interesting for future generations. The classical typographic foundations of Heldane are refined with rigorous digital drawing.

Over a decade in development, Heldane comes in two families: Heldane Display and Heldane Text. The fine detail and tight spacing of Heldane Display is best expressed at large sizes. Heldane Text thrives at smaller sizes, taking stylistic cues from the display cuts, but with an additional focus on optical functionality.

Read more about the development of Heldane on Klim’s site.

You can also see, test and download free trial fonts for Heldane Display and Heldane Text.

Heldane

Foundry: Klim Type Foundry
Designer: Kris Sowersby
Release: November 2018
Format: Desktop, Web, App
Weights: Regular & Italic, Medium & Italic, Bold & Italic for Heldane Text and Heldane Display
Price: from 50.– USD

Unleash your creativity: 65% discount for students, pupils and apprentices

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Chantal is a freelance illustrator from Stockholm who uses a wonderful mixture of elaborate graphic and painted elements for her pictures. In addition to her work as a graphic designer for video games, she develops her own visions and ideas in personal projects. In 2018, she gained attention through her “Song of the harpy” series.

Chantal expresses her creativity using the Creative Cloud apps. You too can create your own fantastic illustrations with Illustrator, Photoshop and many other applications from Creative Cloud.

Unleash your creativity and secure the 65% discount for students, pupils and apprentices. Acquire the Adobe Creative Cloud programs for design, photography, video and web now for a special offer price.

Test Creative Cloud for free

Do you need inspiration? At Adobe Live you can watch Chantal develop her illustrations from the first idea to the final colouring using Creative Cloud apps.

Go to Chantal’s Adobe Live session

 

vom blättern und wischen

Posted on by Bianca Reimann

From May 3rd to June 2nd, 2019 the book laboratory of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts present an exhibition of analogue and digital books by students from the design department.

The exhibition focuses on the examination of the medium book: How is the term analogue and digital defined in the context of book design?

Can analogue and digital books exist side by side and even work together, or are they in direct competition with each other? What demands does an analog book serve in comparison to the digital; what do they have in common, what are the differences? How do designers deal with the medium book in times of digitalization?

A total of 95 books will be shown. Both interactive books in the form of applications and classic analog books can be discovered. The visitors will be accompanied by decision questions, which on the one hand are aimed at the design process and on the other hand also serve as assistance. The books are presented to visitors in a way they can experience and can be felt, touched, browsed and scrolled.

vom blättern und wischen

When? 
May 3rd, 2019 to June 2nd, 2019

Vernissage:
May 3rd, 2019
8 p.m.

Where?
Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Sunderweg 1
44147 Dortmund

More information here.

 

The Future of Typography

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Technical and cultural processes always reflected form and handling with typography. Besides other design disciplines and art, typography definitely is to be understood as a reference of history.

What does typography states about our time now? How is it changing under the influence of digitalization? The magazine series »The Future of Typography« deals with such questions and figures out an orientation in the ever-changing world of typography. The development and the role of typography—today and in the future—is discussed in nine interviews with different creatives.

Interviews:
Julia Kahl—Slanted
Christine Gertsch
Noël Leu—Grilli Type
Götz Gramlich
Niklaus Troxler
TypeMates
Niels Schrader
Hansje van Halem (English)
Daan Rietbergen und Bart Vollebregt – Studio Dumbar (English)

The Future of Typography

Editor and Design: Josephine Becker
Volume: 114 pages
Format: 18 × 24 cm
Workmanship: Stitch binding
Language: German / Englisch
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Slanted Shopping Thursday

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Today is a perfect day to browse across our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we present you three books of August Dreesbach Velag, which might be worth a look.

This volume of the series “Typotopografie” gives an insight into the cultural melting pot of the city. One learns something about the Lilangs, Shanghai style, emoticons and up-and-coming type designers. This special project could be realized in cooperation with Roman Wilhelm, part of the group “Shanghai-Flaneur.”
Typotopografie, 7: Shanghai at Slanted Shop, 80 pages, 19,5 × 29,5 cm, 14,80 €.

In Symbolwelt Bangladeschs, Yasmin Karim roams the populous country and encounters not only lavishly decorated rickshaws, but sometimes even a white bull, the mount of the god Shiva. Delicately illustrated and sensitively explained, it allows a glimpse into the kaleidoscope of unknown symbols of different peoples and religions in Bangladesh.
Symbolwelt Bangladeschs at Slanted Shop, 156 pages, 17,7 × 12,7 cm, 19,80 €.

One sans serif font for every year, that makes twenty-one (20+1) fonts! A book for all those who use sans serif fonts every day, who are perhaps still searching for the right one and who have always wanted to lose themselves in the small, fine, but decisive differences, but also to find them again.
20+1. Ein Vergleich von ausgewählten serifenlosen Schriften der letzten zwanzig Jahre at Slanted Shop, 144 pages, 21 × 30 cm, 18,00 €.

Avengers Endgame

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The Endgame is near. With less than a week until its release, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame managed to create a real hype around this latest. Lots of conspiration theories regarding who survives and who doesn’t fill the Internet. The tension grows bigger day by while, while our patience drops bit by bit. Who will survive this war? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Before finding ourselves inside the theater, stocked with enough popcorn and fizzy drinks to last us three whole hours, eager to see what’s going to happen to our favorite superheroes, let’s find out a few things about WhatFontIs. Whether you plan on making yourself a nice t-shirt with your favorite superhero or to create some posts showing your enthusiasm regarding the movie, WhatFontIs will come in handy. This font identifying tool will help you find out the names of pretty much all the fonts you were wondering about. Since 2010, WhatFontIs’s catalogue expanded significantly, currently hitting approximately 500k available fonts, some designated for personal use, some for commercial use, all of them ready to be discovered and used by your creative mind.

How does it work?
You’ll learn to use WhatFontIs in the blink of an eye. We’ll break it down to you into four simple steps and, because we’re as eager to see Endgame as you are, we’ll exemplify it on the font used for the Avengers movie series.

Step #1:
To begin with, in order to find out the name of this font, we’ll need to get a hang of it. One short Google search later, after you’ve saved the image in your computer, you can sit back and let the fun begin.

Step #2:
Now, open a new tab in your browser and type in whatfontis.com. All you have to do here is to upload the picture you just saved by clicking the BROWSE button. Now click on FIND THE FONT while we’re moving forward to the third step.

Step #3:
Now, you’ll have to write underneath each character the letter it represents. You’ll find designated text boxes under each character.

Step #4:
And finally, click on continue and check out the results. You can now scroll through lots and lots of fonts and choose the one that matches the best with the original one. Our best match was sitting on the 28th position.

Now, let’s find out the font names for the other superhero movies that joined the Avengers in their battle against Thanos.

Iron Man
We all love his humor. The Avengers wouldn’t be the same without Tony Starks. Just like the movie poster wouldn’t be as cool as now without the Stark font.

Spider Man
Mentored closely by Tony Stark, Peter Parker is trying to live a normal, teenager life. Somehow, villains always get in the way. His last scene from Infinity War made us all shed a tear. Wondering about the Spiderman font? Check it out here.

Thor
Literally and figuratively speaking, Thor is God. After he got himself kicked out of Asgard by his father Odin, he found himself drawn to join the Avengers in their battle against the bad guys. Check out the Thor Ragnarok font over here.

Captain America
Steve Rogers, the rejected military soldier we all know today as Captain America, is one of the few superheroes that’s still standing. Will he avenge his team-mates which were vanished away by Thanos and its infinity stones? While thinking about this, take a look at the Captain America font.

Guardians of the Galaxy
They all join the Avengers in their battle against Thanos. Sadly, by the end of Infinity War, the only guardian that’s still standing is Rocket. While weeping because we reminded you of the terrible losses of the previous movie, check out the Guardians of the Galaxy font.

Doctor Strange
Rumor has it Doctor Strange will resurrect in Endgame. Or, at least, time travel sometimes during the plot and help his team mates win the war. We’re so curious to see if this is true or not. Meanwhile, we traveled through the Internet and came across the Imperator font. Looks familiar, right?

Black Panther
Wakanda forever, right? One thing is sure: the Black Panther will rise again in Endgame, lots of critics assuming that somehow Thanos’ action of vanishing half of the universe will be averted or undone. After reading the whole lot of conspiration theories you can find online, take a quick look at the Black Panther font. Look extremely awesome and badass, right? Just like T’Challa.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klang Bilder

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In the late 1950s, avant-garde musicians were exploring new ways of expressing their experimental compositions in writing. Searching for a universal language that would reach far beyond music, they no longer considered the traditional system of musical notation as sufficient. By progressing into electronic music, as well as by linking music and performance, they blurred the boundaries between different genres and inevitably changed the notation of music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, who was one of the leading pioneers in those days, used every conceivable form in order to give expression to his musical universe like no other. This publication, for the first time ever, provides insights into an aspect of his work that has been previously overlooked. It features drawings showing that Stockhausen developed a unique pictorial language for ideas which could not be expressed through music or words. The book includes sheets that explore performance practices or even present time specifications, different timbres, or dynamics in colors.

All works reflect Stockhausen’s determination to create the widest possible range of associations and mental images. By uniting writing, drawing, and music, a truly exceptional, autonomous body of work has evolved.

Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Editor: Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Format: 22,5 × 16,5 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Workmanship: Hardcover
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-86206-725-1
Price: € 32.–

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Forward Festival Zurich 2019

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The Forward Festival celebrates a small anniversary on the 15th of June at KOSMOS in Zurich. For five years now, the festival for creativity, design and communication has been taking place and has established itself as one of the top addresses in the European creative scene within this time. Every year around 1,000 visitors come to Zurich to celebrate with the most influential creative minds from all over the world. This year, you may look forward to the Facebooks Art Director Josh Higgins, the “godfather of grunge typography” David Carson, Major Lazor’s former Art Director Ferry Gouw and Wes Anderson confidante Annie Atkins.

When?
June, 15th, 2019

Where?
KOSMOS
Lagerstrasse 104,
8004 Zürich

More information here.

Interview with Itamar Daube

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In this series with illustrators from Tel Aviv we introduce you to the most exciting Israeli creative minds in graphic design, animation and illustration. We started with an interview with comic artist Rutu Modan. More will follow.

Itamar Daube is Creative Director at BabyFirst, an international television station for toddlers. He is also an illustrator and cartoonist with Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s leading liberal newspapers. He is also Head of Illustration and Animation in the Visual Communication Department at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art in Ramat Gan. We met during his lunch break at a street cafe in Tel Aviv, near the office of the TV channel where he works. He is in his early forties, married and has three children. He graduated from the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

You do so many different things. Let’s start by talking about your political cartoons.

It’s true. As an illustrator in Israel you have to do more than one thing and with three children you also have to earn money. As a political cartoonist I work for a printed newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, which is anti-Netanyahu, liberal, but not left. I think I was chosen for my style and animation background, the newspaper wants to be close to the new trends in illustration. I get my weekly briefing from the editor and journalist who writes the column. The deadlines are short, usually two to three hours. 15 minutes was the shortest deadline I had. Political portraits are the kind I like best.

You’re doing animation for an American television station. Would you imagine doing illustration in an international context?

I would like to have an international career. You don’t have to move abroad to do that. It’s easy to live here and work internationally, just like I do at BabyFirst, a Los Angeles-based television chain. The web makes a lot of things possible.

Which of the many things you do would you mind loosing?

I’m first an illustrator, then an animator and a designer. Teaching at Shenkar College forces me to explain what I do. It gives you a tremendous opportunity to structure what you do. And the students there are very attentive.

Tell us a little about the styles you like.

I watch a lot of cartoon productions from the 60s, the classic Pink Panther cartoons. The music of the time is also great. Charles “Making the simple complicated is normal; making the complicated simple, very simple, that’s creative.” That’s what I also try to do.

More about Itamar Daube:
itamardaube.com
instagram.com/itamardaube

Image sources: Maariv, Globes, Yedioth Ahronoth

Brandes Interactions, Drainting, Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer

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Today we would like to present three publications from the publishing house Herrmann Schmidt: Branded Interactions, Drainting and Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer.

Branded Interaction Design (BIxD)—the brand-compatible design of interactive applications—goes far beyond visual design. Digital touchpoints are integral components of current brand communication. The number and shape of these brand contact points is growing rapidly. To play on them coherently in the sense of the brand presents companies and agencies with new challenges. Complex user experience designs can only be created in a workflow that closely intermeshes conception, design and IT and integrates consistent prototyping and testing. This changes everyday agency life. And the job description of the designer. With their agency think moto, Katja Wenger and Marco Spies accompany well-known companies on their way through digital transformation.

Brandes Interactions

Author: Katja Wenger, Marco Spies
Design: Katrin Schacke
Volume: 360 pages with over 300 illustrations, diagrams, sample forms and pictograms
Format: 20 × 26,5 cm
Bookbinding: Thread-stitched stiff brochure
Workmanship: Printed throughout in three special colours, thread-stitched bright white stiff brochure with round back, two-colour screen printing, two-colour softouch cover, with three-sided turquoise-green leaf cut
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-907-4
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Drainting is what Felix Scheinberger calls the intuitive combination of painting and drawing. In this way he cancels the centuries-old separation between painting surfaces and drawing lines, which is now completely unnecessary, and combines the best of both worlds. As long as you were a child, you used the paint box to paint surfaces and pencils to draw details or lines. Intuitively and naturally.

Then one learned the difference between “drawing” and “painting” and with that the difficulties began. Where there are no outlines at all, it is necessary to find them abstractly. This means that you have to grasp everything with the first strokes: Proportion and perspective, contrast and texture, the big picture and the details. Because this rarely succeeds, frustration is inevitable. Painting and drawing become Drainting!

Drainting

Author: Felix Scheinberger
Format: 21 × 24 cm
Length: 160 pages
Workmanship: Thread-stitched half-linen tape
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-897-8
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In 17 “digestible” chapters Nicolas Uphaus guides you to the start and through a final check phase before jumping into independence. He even supports you with the actual foundation. The experienced guide through the mountain of documents, which you have to keep an overview of at this moment. Then he can start his everyday life. Here you lay the foundations for easy order or chaos that will eat you up sooner or later. If you create good structures here, you will later have time for what you actually want: to create!

Frei – Selbstständig arbeiten als Designer

Author: Nicolas Uphaus
Design and illustrations: Anna Lindner on a basic concept by Roland Stieger and Matthias Christ
Release date: October 2018
Format: 16,7 × 24 cm
Volume: 336 pages
Workmanship: Embossed half-linen tape with a wrapping paper cover made of Muscat recycling paper and punched handle register
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-87439-892-3
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Vogl Creatives Box

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When we first became aware of the Vogl Creatives Box, we were particularly impressed by the high-quality workmanship and the idea behind the elaborate project: a printing company from near Munich that specialises in UV offset and has compiled a collection of individual stories about favourite design objects of renowned artists and creative minds in order to present its portfolio of products in an unusual way.

On each card, the Druckerei Vogl presents a design object and its personal significance for its owner. The stories are told by agencies, designers and artists. Each favourite piece is effectively staged by colourful still-life photographs, a selected finish or special materials. This gives the viewer a pictorial impression of the fascination that the various objects exert on their owners.

The box is conceived as a source of inspiration, it presents haptically impressive features, implementation possibilities and techniques that are the result of the pioneering and inventive spirit of the managing director Ralf Vogl.

The example of the presentation of a classic watch clearly shows that a new and unique experience can be conjured up on deep black Chromolux cardboard using white printing and bright LE UV offset inks. We also used this effect for the cover of our latest book publication TOTAL ARMAGEDDON – A Slanted Reader on Design, which was created in cooperation with Druckerei Vogl.

Another example proves that it is possible to print on hot foils and thus go beyond the limits of classical offset printing. Very few selected printers in Germany offer this process.

However, Vogl Creatives is much more than just a haptic compilation of the Druckerei Vogl’s portfolio. The box allows an exclusive and exciting look into the treasure troves and sources of inspiration of artists and well-known personalities, but also newcomers to the German design scene.

The sample collection of Vogl Creatives is growing and is constantly being expanded with new cards. Owners of the box receive the additions automatically and can also look forward to exciting stories from creative people about new design objects and exciting implementation examples in the future. The box has been available since January from Druckerei Vogl at www.vogl-creatives.de  or in the Slanted Shop.

Participants

Christoph Bäumler, Managing Director Agency KOPFBRAND Munich
David Benedek,creative multi-talent Munich
Stefan Bräutigam & Tim Rotermund, Managing Director Agency Bräutigam & Rotermund Hamburg
Hannah Brinkies, Designer and artist, Munich
Sandra Gramisci, Designer Munich
Andre Gröger, Owner of design studio i like birds Hamburg
Oliver Holy, CEO and owner of Classicon Munich
Tom Ising, Creative Director Agency HERBURG WEILAND Munich
Tom Jäger, Designer Munich
Susanne Mandl, Designer Landsberg am Lech
Stefan Rückerl, Owner agency StudioStrada Munich
Sabine Schmid, Owner of Schmid/Widmaier agency, Munich
Daniel Sommer, Photographer Munich
Frank Wagner, Managing Director hw.design + Publisher nomad Magazine Munich

Vogl Creatives Box

Project development, printing and production of the cards:: Druckerei Vogl GmbH & Co. KG
Development & production of the box: designplus GmbH
Concept & Design: Manuel Haugke
Technical-creative conception and material consulting: Katja Knahn
Photos: Vivi D’Angelo
Styling: Justyna Dembowski
Lithography: Matthias Griessel
Release date: Januar 2019
Scope: Box mit 15 Karten
Format: 17 × 24 × 4,8 cm
Price: € 39,–

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If you would like to get to know Vogl Creatives better, you can arrange a free, individual presentation date within the framework of an agency roadshow, at which Ralf Vogl can personally experience printed matter with all his senses and respond to the individual questions of the participants.

Making of

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Slanted Magazine #33—Prague is at the printer right now! Its red and blue cover shines as bright as the Moldau floating through the city of Prague. This exciting issue will be released in the end of May 2019 and can be preordered at a reduced price for € 15.– here. Thanks to our kind partners Holmen Paper for the inside paper, Iggesund Paperboard for the cover material and the Stober GmbH for the nice print. The magazine will surprise you with many interviews, studio visits, essays, illustrations and last but not least the newest and freshest typefaces. Check it out!

Slanted Magazine #33—Prague

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: May 2019
Volume: 256 pages
Format in cm (w × h × d): 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: Stober GmbH
Inside Paper: Holmen Paper
Cover Material: Iggesund Paperboard

Slanted Shopping Thursday

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Today is a perfect day to browse across our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we present you five Bauhaus books, which might be worth a look.

100 years ago, on April 1st, 1919, one of the most influential schools of arts and crafts was founded—the Bauhaus. Now, Lars Müller Publishers published the English editions of four volumes of the highly influential Bauhausbücher series (two of them will be available for the first time) and the facsimile edition of the bauhaus journal 1926-1931. The influential Bauhaus masters Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and László Moholy-Nagy, along with the artist Piet Mondrian, are the authors of these important testimonies.

With these publications, Lars Müller Publishers has initiated a wonderful project with the aim of re-exploring these original voices of the Bauhaus and investigating and passing them on with a view to future developments in art and society.

One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it’s time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the movement are heard.
bauhaus journal 1926-1931 at Slanted Shop, 412 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 70,– Euro.

Offered a position at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1923, László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) soon belonged to the inner circle of Bauhaus masters. When the school moved to Dessau, Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius began a fruitful collaboration as joint publishers of the Bauhausbücher series.
Painting, Photography, Film at Slanted Shop, 134 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 40,– Euro.

Although Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Mondrian, cofounder of the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, called for a strict reduction of visual language to orthogonal composition and primary colors, which met with great approval in Bauhaus circles.
New Design – Neoplasticism, Nieuwe Beelding at Slanted Shop, 68 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 30,– Euro.

When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1924, it was finally possible to publish the first of the Bauhausbücher that Walter Gropius (1883–1969) and Làszlò Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) had first conceived of in Weimar.
International Architecture at Slanted Shop, 108 pages 18 × 23 cm, 40,– Euro.

Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee (1879–1940) brought his expressive blend of color and line to the school—and, with the second volume in the Bauhausbücher series, beyond its walls.
Pedagogical Sketchbook at Slanted Shop, 56 pages, 18 × 23 cm, 30,– Euro.