Forward Festival Munich 2019

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The Forward Festival celebrates a small anniversary from 13 to 14 June at Alte Kongresshalle in Munich. 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 2,000 visitors come to Munich 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, the renowned US advertising agency AKQA and the young creative agency Selam X.

When?
June, 13th to 14th, 2019

Where?
Alte Kongresshalle
Am Bavariapark 14
D-80339 München

More information here.

ALBERT

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“How to design science?” This essential question was the starting point in the process of creating a concept for the new print magazine of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. Can knowledge also have sex appeal and if so, how would it look like? By now the Einstein Foundation has published four issues of the Albert magazine. Each of them covers a different scientific area of study such as mathematics, natural sciences, ancient studies and the latest edition is dedicated to the topic of new departures.

Designer Fons Hickmann and art director Raúl Kokott collaborated on the conception and the design of the magazine and their creative efforts were widely acclaimed and recognized by designers and scholars alike. The Einstein Foundation Berlin has the following raison d’être: “Not only do we want to support cutting-edge scientific research, we also want to talk about it.” Fons Hickmann M23 was commissioned to take over the design of the magazine’s fourth issue dedicated to the topic of new departures; future editions will highlight other scientific fields of study and the ways they are being pursued in the Einstein Berlin headquarters.

ALBERT – Magazine for Science

Publisher: Einstein Foundation
Editors: Christian Martin, Mirco Lomoth
Agency: Fons Hickmann M23
Designer: Raúl Kokott
Art Director: Fons Hickmann
Size: 27 × 20 cm
Scope: 104 pages
Print: 5c offset

Astro

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Detail Type Foundry (detail) is the type design institute of Kamimura & Co., an independent design studio based in Japan. They create retail and custom fonts for companies, brands and projects.

Originally, detail has been started with the type design practices of Makoto Kamimura, graphic designer and founder of the studio. He has created visual identities for many different clients. They create the typefaces not only for many different designs but also for new cultures, seeing their unique typefaces as great assistants to build the brand’s identity.

Their new font Astro, published in 2018 and designed by Makoto Kamimura, is a calm, sophisticated and noiseless sans serif, described as a neo-humanist sans-serif. It combines humanist sans serif’s classical and elegant form with a minimal sequence of neo-grotesque sans-serif organized by the vertical lines. While the traditional sans-serif gives readers a heavy and mechanical impression, this typeface will create a smooth and ultramodern impression. Additionally, it has 20 weights to control visual gravity perfectly. So, letters will have the same impression on readers, no matter whether they are written on micro-ships or spaceships.

Astro

Type foundry: Detail Type foundry
Designer: Makoto Kamimura
Release: 2018
Styles: 4 Styles with 10 Weights, each with Slanteds 
file formats: OpenType CFF, Woff, Woff2
Price desktop license: USD$ 800.–
Price web license: USD$ 1,200.–  
only available as complete family set
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Walbaum Weekend

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The Walbaum weekends are a series of events organized by the Printmaking Museum “Pavillon-Presse” in Weimar. They combine the imparting of theoretical knowledge with workshops in the museum.

As part of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the 8th Walbaum Weekend from May 25th to 26th 2019 is dedicated to the essence and work of the Bauhaus—with a special focus on typography. The design school is known worldwide for a supposedly certain style. But what defines this style? Where do the typographic ideas and ideals really come from? How new were they and how and by whom could they be implemented?

The weekend begins on Saturday at 10 a.m. with a guided tour of the museum, followed by a lecture by Dr. des. Dan Reynolds on the subject of “Type design in grand ducal times.” Jay Rutherford talks about the “origins of the Bauhaus,” Ralf Herrmann about “Bauhaus types.” Finally, Dr. Julia Meer will talk about “New View of New Typography.”

A Bauhaus printing workshop will take place on Sunday from 09:30 a.m., registration for which is only possible until April 19th 2019 and will become binding once the minimum number of 20 participants has been reached. The participation fee amounts to 99,– Euro (and/or 80,– for association members and 45,– for students). A maximum of 30 persons can participate.

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Walbaum Weekend—100 Years of Bauhaus

When?
Lectures:
May 25th, 2019
from 10 a.m.
Bauhaus-letterpress-workshop:
May 26th, 2019
from 9:30 a.m.

Where?
Druckgrafisches Museum
Pavillon-Presse Weimar
Scherfgasse 5
99423 Weimar

ISType 2019

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This year ISType has an exciting list of presentations and workshops to announce revolving around this edition’s theme: axis. It is taking place in Istanbul from 14th – 16th June 2019. Sixteen inspiring designers from around the globe are invited to discuss the organizing principles they employ in the formation of their type and letter design processes. What are the axes of their type design and research methodologies? Following the two-day conference presentations, there will be a full day of three workshops held on the topics of calligraphy, lettering, and type design.

Speaker this year are: Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, Cem Eskinazi, Naïma Ben Ayed, Frederik Berlaen, Dave Crossland, Jeremy Mickel, Aleksandra Samulenkova, Peter Biľak, Sahar Afshar, Taner Ardalı, Borna Izadpanah, Marina Chaccur, Radek Sidun, Jacob Petersen and Just Van Rossum.

ISType 2019—axis

When?
June 14th to 16th, 2019

Where?
Salz Galata
Bankalar Caddesi, Nr.:11
Karaköy, 34420
İstanbul
Turkey

Early Bird Prices (until May 26th, 2019)
Student: 25,– Euro
Professional: 50,– Euro
Regular Prices (after May 26th, 2019)
Student: 40,– Euro
Professional: 70,– Euro

For further information and tickets visit: www.istype.com

Let your creativity grow: 40% discount now available on Creative Cloud extended until 19.04.2019

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Creativity is an oasis—Adobe Creative Cloud offers all tools, apps and features to transform ideas into unique designs. Try it out and increase your productivity: until 19.04.2019, you can get Creative Cloud for just € 35.69 (incl. VAT) instead of € 59.49 per month.

What does such an oasis for designers look like? The artist Nadine Kolodziey is one of this year’s Creative Residents at Adobe. In her artwork from the “garden of creativity”, she shows the magic behind Creative Cloud. Nadine calls this her “magical power.” She says: “I can create trees and design clouds; I can overcome time and space and work on a file with friends from all over the world at the same time.” This allows creativity to grow.

Nadine sees herself as an interface between analogue and digital design. For her “garden of creativity” she cuts shapes out of foil to melt them down again in the next step, then she photographs them and refines them in Illustrator CC with the new freehand function. Via the CC library, the visual item is exported to Adobe After Effects CC where it is animated. The final editing and adding of sound effects and music is done in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. This hybrid way of working gives her design a special look.

More in the video

And what does your garden of creativity look like? Ensure you get your Adobe Creative Cloud for just € 35.69 (incl. VAT) instead of € 59.49 per month between 05.04.2019 and 19.04.2019.

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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 two magazines and two books, which might be worth a look.

In the new Reportagen Magazine, the best authors around the globe have been sent to find the best stories for you. In this issue you will find, for example, Margherita Bettoni’s reports “Liebe mich oder stirb. Fast jeden dritten Tag tätet in Italien ein Mann seine Partnerin” and Alexander Krützfeldt “Noch einmal ans Meer. Ein Mann erfüllt Menschen, die bald sterben, ihre letzten Wünsche.”
Reportagen #45 at Slanted Shop, 128 pages, 16,5 × 23 cm, 15,00 €.

In Upstart must a business idea not only be ingenious, but also look good. Whether social business, tech start-ups or the barber around the corner—young entrepreneurs know that what counts these days is how they communicate their brand to the outside world. Their tailor-made solutions and their overall appearance testify to their creative attitude and attention to detail—from business cards to interior design and digital applications.
Upstart at Slanted Shop, 256 pages, 24 × 28 cm, 39,90 €.

LOST is a magazine about self-discovery through travel. It is a magazine that contains real stories, personal reflections and epiphanies from people all over the world. It believes that travel is not about fancy hotels or destinations, but about immersing yourself in a completely strange place to feel extremely uncomfortable, so you can learn from it. She believes that travelling is a state of mind. Issue Five contains 10 personal travelogues.
LOST Magazin at Slanted Shop, 268 pages, 17,5 × 24 cm, 25,00 €.

In Pixel, Patch und Pattern two worlds meet: the vibrating coolness of digital typography and the decelerating craft of knitting. Rüdiger Schlömer takes you step by step into the world of letter knitting. With pattern alphabets, for which he implements fonts by renowned type designers, Schlömer lays the foundation for your typographic expression with needle and yarn. Threads become lines and modules grid. Typographic knitting is not a new handicraft trend, but a graphic approach to a handicraft technique that in most of us has a sleeping beauty sleep, from which we simply want to wake it up.
Pixel, Patch und Pattern at Slanted Shop, 216 pages, 17 × 23 cm, 29,80 €.

 

25th Typotage Leipzig

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The 25th Typotage Leipzig celebrate their 2019 anniversary: on Saturday, 11 May, the 25th edition of the conference will take place in the Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig. The theme chosen was “Typography and Zeitgeist.” That couldn’t be more fitting, since 2019 will also put the spotlight on the Bauhaus, whose ideas still have a decisive influence on design today. Following on from this and above all with a view to contemporary events in font design, typography and graphic design, the Typotage 2019 will be devoted to a broad spectrum of topics.

A historical part concentrates on the 1920s and the effectiveness of the Bauhaus. Dr. Annette Ludwig (Gutenberg-Museum Mainz) and Andreas Weber (Stan Hema, Berlin, CI Development for bauhaus100) will give lectures on this topic. Afterwards, the lectures will be devoted to the zeitgeist of the present. Among the speakers will be font designer Inga Plönnigs (Berlin), interface designer Frank Rausch (Berlin) and Marc Schütz (Frankfurt/Main), who heads the future-oriented Institute for Font Design in Offenbach/Main. Daniel Klotz from Berliner Lettertypen is a border crosser on the typotage podium who transforms the zeitgeist of the handmade into the digital world using historical printing processes.

25th Typotage Leipzig

When?
May 11th, 2019

Where?
Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig
Germany

Additional events
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
7 p.m.
Typotable #1, Lectures on font design and typography
More informations here.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Letterpress—open workshop
More informations here. 

April 5th to 7th, 2019
European Days of Arts and Crafts
More informations here.

For further information and tickets visit: www.tixforgigs.com

Der blinde Fleck

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The design exhibition “Der blinde Fleck—Gestalterinnen am Bauhaus und heute” (The blind spot—designers at the Bauhaus and today) in the 100th anniversary year of the Bauhaus is dedicated to the appreciation of female design achievements between 1919 and 2019 in seven design areas at the Designhaus Darmstadt from April 6th, 2019 to May 26th, 2019: Industrial, furniture, textile and graphic design, photography and architecture.

Vernissage
April 5th, 2019
from 6 p.m.

When?
April 6th, 2019 until May 26th, 2019
Fridays, 4 to 7 p.m.
Saturdays + Sundays, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
free entrance

Where?
Designhaus Darmstadt
Eugen-Bracht-Weg
664287 Darmstadt

Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures

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A—Z is a new space in Berlin for experimental graphic design. For the opening this new exhibition-spot will host the exhibition “Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures.” It is a visual research project and the personal design library of Andrea Tinnes, Professor of Typography at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. The title is programmatically chosen, because as a library, the “Library” encompasses the ongoing systematic collection, notation, documentation, selection, recording, archiving, processing, ordering, and cataloguing of a wide variety of visual, text-based, and linguistic materials.

In the “Shapes” section, the “Library” consists of two extensive writing systems, the Affiche Collection and the Allgemein Grotesk, two fonts that unite different letter forms in their character sets. It also includes numerous forms and symbols, from abstract-geometric to figurative-illustrative to organically deformed. The section “Structures” contains a multitude of serial structures, including analogue and digital textures as well as photographic images of everyday typography. These visual collections are supplemented by the section “Texts.” As a “text log,” it records extracts of everyday reading of newspapers, magazines, books or even short news in the social media, sorted by date. The exhibition at A—Z shows the current status of the “Library of Shapes, Texts and Structures” in the form of an extensive file collection and a multifaceted poster series, which combines a selection of library materials with different motifs and colors.

Library of Shapes, Texts, and Structures

When?
April 11th, 2019
7 p.m.

Where?
A—Z
Torstr. 93
10119 Berlin

Typeface of the Month: Study

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Although the technologies for producing type have become far more expedient, the techniques for designing type are essentially the same. While developing Study, our new Typeface of the Month published by XYZ Type, the key challenge was to combine the past and the present, to translate the warmth of a hand-painted specimen into cold, unforgiving vector outlines.

Study is a new serif type family with a strong personality and a fascinating history. The design blends elements of calligraphy and typography, with tension between soft outer shapes and angular counterforms. Dramatic forms draw attention at large sizes, yet become quiet in paragraphs of text. The typeface’s large counterforms and wide proportions make it extremely clear and readable without sacrificing style. Study is based on a concept rendered by Rudolph Ruzicka (1883–1978) in the book Studies in Type Design (1968) but never previously completed as a functioning font. Ruzicka’s signature aesthetic is at its peak in these lively letterforms, demonstrating his interest in Czech lettering and his skill as a wood engraver.

By creating Study, designer Jesse Ragan has completed Ruzicka’s unfinished typeface fifty years after it was first published, adapted to modern typography and technology. The original source material for Study existed as only a limited hand-painted alphabet, so a deep understanding of Ruzicka’s life and work helped Ragan find the design’s true voice. Over several years, he extensively researched the Czech-American designer and illustrator’s body of work, studying archives of unpublished drawings and correspondence.

In its final digital form, Study is a family of twelve font styles, each including small capitals, ligatures, fractions, and four kinds of numerals. The fonts are designed to work well in print and on screen, from large sizes down to text settings.

XYZ Type has also shared a detailed article about the history and process behind the typeface on their site, where you can also see the full Study family.

Study

Foundry: XYZ Type
Designer: Jesse Ragan, Rudolph Ruzicka
Release: 2018
Format: Desktop, web, app
Weights: 7 weights in roman and italic
Price: From US$ 40,– per font style
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TOTAL ARMAGEDDON—A Slanted Reader on Design

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With our latest publication TOTAL ARMAGEDDON we celebrate 15 eventful years of independent publishing. A collection of both, essays that are brand new as well as the very best essays from 32 issues of Slanted Magazine, written by the most vital and vibrant global voices in writing on design and culture today such as Steven Heller, Piotr Rypson, Gerry Leonidas, Yoon Soo Lee, Kiyonori Muroga, and a host of others. 

Thanks to a great collaboration with our friend and renowned author Ian Lynam as the editor of the book, and an exciting funding process on Kickstarter, a publication with 400 pages is being published for loyal friends and also new design enthusiasts alike.

TOTAL ARMAGEDDON is about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other thorny topics. It comes with essays by Can Altay, Eran Bacharach, Simon Baker, Emanuel Barbosa, Laure Boer, Gerda Breuer, Dr. Nadine Chahine, Doug Clouse, Olga Drenda, Jori Erdman, Marcus Farr, Kenneth FitzGerald, Charlotte von Fritschen, Amélie Gastaut, Martin Giesen, Jonathan M. Hansen, Steven Heller, Ilka Helmig, Will Hill, Lorena Howard-Sheridan, Natalia Ilyin, Mr. Keedy, Marianna Kellokoski, Matilda Kivelä, Toshiaki Koga, Iwona Kurz, Carolina Laudon, Yoon Soo Lee, Gerry Leonidas, Christine Lhowe, Tim Loffing, Mathieu Lommen, Ian Lynam, Dermot Mac Cormack, Georgios Matthiopoulos, Julia Meer, Silas Munro, Kiyonori Muroga, Randy Nakamura, Alexander Negrelli, Ingo Niermann, Panos Papanagiotou, Natassa Pappa, David Peacock, Louise Rouse, Piotr Rypson, Niki Sioki, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Thierry Somers, Sonja Steppan, Agata Szydłowska, Aleksander Tokarz, Alexander Torell, Angela Voulangas, Rene Wawrzkiewicz, Wolfgang Weingart, and Onur F. Yazıcıgil.

Thanks so much to all authors, it’s a great honor to publish your writings in this exciting book!

TOTAL ARMAGEDDON—A Slanted Reader on Design

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor: Ian Lynam, Slanted Publishers
Release: March 2019
Volume: 400 pages
Format: 16 × 24 × 3,2 cm
Language: English
Printing: LE-UV offset + white (Druckerei Vogl)
Paper: Holmen BOOK Extra 2.0 (Holmen Paper)
Cover material: Invercote G Metalprint (Iggesund Paperboard)
Typefaces: Beatrice (Sharp Type) and Edit Serif (Atlas Font Foundry)
ISBN: 978-3-9818296-6-2
Price: € 30,–
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Creative Disruptors

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For companies doing business in 2019, using eye-catching imagery is a given: customers expect to be inspired. And nowhere is visual disruptiveness more necessary than on Instagram.

Here, we highlight three brands that consistently post exceptional images, and show you how stock can be your source for compelling visual content that helps you stand out on social media.

 

@matcha.miya
MATCHA.MIYA: Embrace Ritual

Matcha Miya’s grid exudes a zen-like energy, making it a space where their customers can visually immerse themselves in the ritual of enjoying a cup of tea.

Key takeaway: Content before commerce. The brand posts few product shots, focusing instead on their aesthetic. This is a welcome respite for customers who are often bombarded by aggressive sales messages.

 

@harrys
Harry’s: Create Connection

With a savvy combination of product photos, quotes, and “I’m so that guy” lifestyle shots, Harry’s comes across as super-relatable.

Key takeaway: Be aspirational, but accessible. There is a sweet spot between the two approaches that can build customer loyalty. The mix of stylized product shots, bright colors, and playful brand voice makes it easy for customers to connect with the brand.

 

@natgeotravel
National Geographic Travel: Inspire Awe

National Geographic Travel is the ultimate travel feed, with each photo more monumental than the last. Their Instagram strategy is simple: inspire serious #FOMO by serving up mind-blowing images of roads less traveled.

Key takeaway: Go big or go home. Source and post only the best images. NatGeo sources their content from top-tier photographers around the globe. Want a little inspo? Check out these incredible shots by Shutterstock’s top landscape photographer.

 

These companies all exhibit an unwavering commitment to ensuring that every image delivers on their brand promise. So how can you make your brand visually disruptive? That’s where Shutterstock comes in.

It’s not stock. It’s Shutterstock.

Shutterstock is an all-in-one creative platform that offers best-in-class visual assets, easy-to-use tools, and reliable support to empower how brands connect with customers.

Our extensive content library of more than 200 million assets is one of the main reasons why leading global brands rely on us for assets that are dramatic, unexpected, and, of course, high-quality.

We’ve also have developed tools that make it easier for brands to create memorable content. Our recent innovations include advanced search filters, next-gen “composition aware” search functionality, an Adobe plugin that instantly connects the entire Shutterstock library to your workflow, and a powerful mobile app that enables on-the-go creativity. In addition, we’ve created Shutterstock Editor, which makes it easy to size and customize images for every major social media platform.

Need more inspiration? Visit https://shutr.bz/ItsShutterstock to check out mind-blowing image Collections that show why it’s not stock, it’s Shutterstock.

This text has been written by Lisa Hurley.

Bauhaus 4.0 meets service & interaction design

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Digitization and globalization are among the major economic and social contemporary issues. Can parallels be drawn to the upheavals of industry and society that made Bauhaus 100 years ago? Can we still use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus today to find ways of successfully leading the design of today into the future? How can we exploit the expansion of the fields of work of designers completed in recent years and not fall into the trap of diluting the design concept beyond recognition? How can designers help us to experience the changes in the world that accompany digitization and what contribution can they make to the humane design of the world? What is the correspondence to the demand for lifelong learning for a continuous education and training of professional designers and what actually helps us design theory in all these questions?

At the podium discussion on 26.3. In Bremen, we will discuss the role and the potential of Service & Interaction Design in times of digitization in a pointed and provocative way. Et al with Tanja Diezmann, Anne-SophieOertzen, Torsten Meyer-Boga, Torsten Stapelkamp and the two moderators Boris Kochan and Ulrich Müller. Welcome by Thomas Bade. An evening on a small scale for designers and design enthusiasts in the paper warehouse of Hansa GmbH & Co.KG—join in the discussions!

For more informations and tickets, visit: www.designtag.org.

When?

March, 26th, 2019
6:30 pm

Where?

Papierlager der Hansa GmbH & Co. KG
Heinz-Kerneck-Straße 8
28307 Bremen

 

Pulpo

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Pulpo is a Clarendon style typeface with the skeleton of Century Schoolbook. Longer extenders give text a bit more air to breathe and improve legibility in small text sizes. Despite the strength and sturdiness of the design, each letter shape carries warmth and an echo of the human hand. The familiarity of the letterforms also conceals some nostalgia.

The family has 10 styles, ranging from Light to Black (including italics) and is ideally suited for editorial, advertising and packaging as well as web and app design. A massive body combined with low stroke contrast, emphasizing the horizontal elements, make it very suitable on screen and for small text sizes on newsprint paper. Each cut includes 489 glyphs with four sets of numerals and extended language support to meet the needs of today’s communication.

Foundry: Floodfonts
Type Designer: Felix Braden
Release: March 19th 2019
Styles: 10 styles, Light to Black (incl. Italics)
Price per style: 49$, family: 245$
Pulpo is 80% OFF until April 19th 2019

100 Ways to Move an A

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The project “100 Ways to Move an A” by Ricardo Meyer questions the results-oriented design and puts the process in the foreground. It was created as a personal project in addition to a semester assignment at the FH Potsdam on the design of a dynamic character set. Since Ricardo was new to the field of motion design, he put the course task to his needs.

According to one of the guiding principles of Sister Corita Kent “If you work it will lead to something” the idea was sought in the design and not in the sketch. The result is the indefinite design of 100 moving characters. It invalidates the directly analyzing thoughts in the process and leads to new, unexpected results.

Typotable No. 1

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Starting with Typotable №1, Berlin based type designer Ulrike Rausch will talk about her love for handmade craft and passion for sophisticated OpenType features. At her side, Sven Fuchs will give insights into his work as a type designer, his affection for typography in public spaces and his special interest in typographic history.

For further information and tickets visit: www.typotable.de

Typotable

When?
March 28th, 2019

Where?
Museum für Druckkunst
Großer Drucksaal
Nonnenstraße 18
04229 Leipzig
Germany

Texel

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

Although the concept never made it to life, the notion of exploring brutal geometry through typography really stuck with them. Building within a robust grid the steadily typeface grew from a few characters into a full Latin typeface with accents. A pair of stencilled weights were then explored with stencil bridges following a single direction—horizontally or vertically.

The resulting typeface takes strong cues from the architectural movement of Brutalism, the typeface embraces ruggedness and rejects the need to be comfortable or easy on the eye.

Released in December 2018, and rolled out in three separate cuts—Regular, Horizontal, and Vertical, each with Italics—Texel is heavy, cold, oppressive, formidable, and makes no excuses for it.

Texel is available from Metis Foundry—a digital type foundry based in Melbourne, Australia. Posters and Specimens are due to be released soon.

Texel

Type foundry: Metis Foundry
Designer: Simon Bent
Release: December 2018
Styles: Regular, Horizontal, Vertical, each with Italics
Price: AU$ 40 per style, discount rates for the full family
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Indiecon 2019

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One hall for publishing diversity: come the first weekend in September, over 70 magazines and small publishers from every corner of the world will be showing and selling their work at the Oberhafen in Hamburg. Some 4,000 visitors from the media, arts and creative industries will charge up their batteries with fresh design, new narrative forms and progressive ideas for distribution.

Year-round inspiration

The trade show has been held once a year since 2014, bringing together self-motivated producers of magazines, zines, comics, art books and other wonderful narratives. Die Brueder Publishing organises and curates the event. During Indiecon, new and established publishers can hone their abilities and skills and connect with an international magazine and publishing scene. 60 to 80 exhibitors present their work, revealing new aesthetics, narrative forms and production techniques. Independent publishers are joined by young publishing companies, agencies and studios as well as student projects.

Discover publishing diversity

Printed or digital, independent magazines and books are an important part of our free society. They give a voice to social movements, experiment with form and content, can spark off debates and bring little-noticed topics under the public gaze. The community of magazine makers joins forces at Indiecon with art book and zine publishers and with innovative independent publishing companies. Themes include literature and journalism, comics, illustration and pop, photography, architecture and popular science, politics, business and everything in between.

Sharing ideas with professionals

Experienced publishers, coaches and service providers from production, marketing or distribution unlock their toolboxes at Indiecon and share their market knowledge. As well as the professionals with their expert feedback, many readers and magazine fans come to the festival and pick up the publications – the magic moment for any publisher. They eyeball the magazines, zines and books, leaf through them, read them and provide valuable feedback. Do new ideas develop here? Certainly new reading relationships. At least there’s a good chance of finding something new at Indiecon that would otherwise lead a hidden life in drawers or backyard workshops.

Program

Three days of independent publishing – with music and play, snacks and sips.
Friday 6 Sept., from 18.00: Leisurely set-up, leisurely beer drinking, with press people
Saturday 7 Sept., 12:00 – 18.00: Serious networking, serious beer drinking
Saturday 07.09. 18 Uhr: Leisurely getting in the groove, party from 22.00
Sunday 8 Sept., 12:00 – 18.00: Trade show
Sunday 8 Sept., 18:00 – 20.00:  Leisurely take-down

Pricing

Admission as visitor: No charge, catalogue €5,–
Exhibitors: First table €50,–, each additional table + €100,–

EDCH—The Idea Salon—Review

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

For the first time the Editorial Design Conference EDCH took place at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) in Munich from March 14th to 16th, 2019. We visited the conference to report about the event and on the other hand to present our latest publication Total Armageddon—A Slanted Reader on Design. Boris Kochan and his team once again managed to bring together the Who is Who in the fields of design, graphics, illustration, journalism, as well as the magazine and book industry and to inspire the interested audience.

Over three days, a full program with fantastic lectures offered the very best entertainment and showed the latest trends and news in the field of editorial design. Although it was impossible for us to see all lectures, we were able to get a good overview and we were impressed by the high quality and diversity of the speakers.

For us personally, it was also very exciting to get the first reactions to our new release Total Armageddon—A Slanted Reader on Design. In the upper floor of the venue, we were invited to share the booth of our great cooperation partner Druckerei Vogl, and had the opportunity to get in direct contact with the conference visitors. The feedback was great and very valuable. At this point we would like to thank you again for the invitation and the great support!

see-Conference

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On April 13th, 2019 the 14th see-Conference takes place in the cultural centre “Schlachthof” in Wiesbaden. With over 1,000 visitors, the event has established itself as one of the largest design conferences in Germany. Besides focusing on data visualization, the see-Conference places a strong emphasis on sustainable concepts. For this reason, their speakers open up new perspectives of effective communication in their presentations, focusing in particular on the impact of today’s actions on the society and environment of future generations. The best in their field—they are visionaries who understand, live and actively advance our mission of fostering sustainability.

When?
April 13th, 2019
11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Where?
Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden e.V.
Murnaustr. 1
65189 Wiesbaden

Sofa Serif

Posted on by GHW

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

Sofa Serif’s handcrafted character is friendly and eye-catching. Stylish features and alternates add personality and let you create unique logos and stunning headlines. The family boasts 5 weights from Monoline to Fat, each containing more than 1000 glyphs, plenty of OpenType features and full ISO latin 1 & 2 language support. In addition, extra shadow-, 3D-, inline- and hatched-styles round out the package. 7 font-styles are especially created to be used as layers/layered styles.

High contrast is one of Sofa Serif’s key features. To maintain a wide range of use, choose from two optical sizes: Standard and Display with a maximum of contrast especially in the heavier weights. This makes it a flexible solution for any display and editorial need.

Sofa Serif includes a variety of OpenType alternates which add uniqueness to your work. OpenType features include Swashes- and Titling-Alternates, Beginnings and Endings and a number of alternates within various Stylistic-Sets for even more variation. OpenType Swashes- and Titling-Alternates are smart features which automatically adjust all swashy letters to the available white space. Switch one on and let Sofa Serif do the rest. The font-guide “SofaSerif-FontFamily-and-OpenType-Overview” from the gallery will be included in your purchase automatically.

Sofa Serif is an organic, rough and decorative hand-drawn/handmade all-caps display-family for packaging, posters, book-covers, wedding-, kids-, food- and logo-design and will best stand out in huge grades. Its handmade origin is subtle yet visible.

Sofa Serif

Foundry: FaceType
Designer: Georg Herold-Wildfellner
Release: February 2019
Weights: 5 weights from Monoline to Fat in 2 optical sizes + extra shadow-, 3D-, inline- and hatched-styles
Single weight: € 24,–
Family: € 99,–

You can purchase Sofa Serif discounted til April 6, 2019, at MyFonts for only € 14,85

Design 360°–DESIGNMAG: DESIGNMAG

Posted on by Julia Kahl

For the first time in 13 years, one of the most influential design magazines from Asia, Design 360°, launched its special edition DESIGNMAG: DESIGNMAG on occasion of its 13th anniversary. During this time, it went through three phases of cover and editorial redesigns. Today, in the 21st century, new disciplines, new media, new culture, and new objects are continually evolving as well as developing, and so should magazines do: to everlastingly explore, to experiment, to go behind limitations, and to convey comprehensive experiences of design.

In this anniversary issue they invited five of the globally renowned magazines, namely IDEA, novum, Communication Arts, Eye, and Slanted, to join the issue in conversations, and to reminisce their history. We feel very honored to be among these great publications with an interview of Julia Kahl and with some comments about Slanted magazine from Verena Gerlach, Dermot Mac Cormack, and Magdalena Frankowska.

This is the first special edition of Design 360° in 13 years, the first issue to discuss such similar topics, and, more importantly, a milestone attempt for Design 360°. Design 360° will keep its fresh, bold, and edgy essence, to present design comprehensively and will grow together with readers.

360° Design—DESIGNMAG: DESIGNMAG
Issue no. 78

Chief Editor & Design Director: Joshua Wang
Cover Design: Javin Mo
Design Assistants: Antiny Wu/Human Cai
Editors: Lauren Luo/Yuer Bi/Yeeman Lin/Daan Chen/Leslie Z
Format: 18.3 x 25 cm
Volume: 164 pages + 2 cropped booklets
Binding: Open thread stitching
Print: CMYK + gold
ISSN: 1815-9222

For orderings, please email [email protected]

Passau Posters

Posted on by Slanted editors

The love for his hometown Passau, the love for exceptionally designed posters and the love for good typography inspired Manuel Kreuzer to this project. Starting in September 2016, he designed a poster every week about special cultural events in and around Passau—for a whole year: 52 “Passau Posters”; were the result! There was only one rule: no colors, no pictures. On the one hand, the graphic artist wanted to sound out limits: What surprises the viewer? Where are the limits of legibility? On the other hand, he wanted to show what is possible with strict typographical design—and it quickly becomes clear: That’s a lot!

The posters thematize various events around Passau: subtle art exhibitions, tough techno parties, big concerts and festivals up to classical opera—all events Manuel Kreuzer would go to himself.

This book is not a rulebook, but a source of inspiration and ideas. And above all, it is a book full of great writings! Manuel Kreuzer wants everyone to open their eyes to the subtle differences of all types of fonts: Use well-designed fonts and use them with all the sensitivity and attention they deserve.

Passau Posters

Publisher: August Dreesbach Verlag
Format: 16,5 × 24 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Workmanship: thread-stiching paperback
Price: 18,– €
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