Shapes of Data

J&J - New ways of visualising data
Shapes of Data is an innovation created by Adrien Jacquemet and Basile Jesset, graphic designer and web developer respectively. In their view,…

Typeface of the Month: RST Thermal

By Reset Type
Check out our newest Typeface of the Month:  RST Thermal is an exploration of balance and contrast. Combining the elegance of classical…

Call for Entries by Stiftung Buchkunst 2024

“Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” and “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung”
Stiftung Buchkunst invites participation in its competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2024 (The Most Beautiful German Books 2024) and Förderpreis für junge…

Typotalk with Lars Harmsen

Perspectives by Design—Typography and Space
In the context of the exhibition Dagmar Buhr: Lui at Neues Museum in Nürnberg, bayern design presents a Typotalk with Lars Harmsen, Creative…

Formale Grotesque

Family System
With the development of Formale Grotesque, Binnenland pursued a strategy that is more variable for a more differentiated use of a type…

Script – Über das Wesen der Schrift

About the nature of writing
Do the existing writing systems suffice for future communication, even with machines? Script – Über das Wesen der Schrift is a fundamental reflection…

Flint*ype

flint*ype is a tool, an archive, and a curated showcase, that aims to make typefaces from FLINTA* (F=female, L=lesbians, I=inter-, N=non-binary, T=trans,…

Blackletter—Rotunda

Calligraphy Manuals
After the debut of the Calligraphy Manuals collection with the book Blackletter – Fraktur, the Portuguese publishing house 0. itemzero has released…

Typeface of the Month: Perec Scripte

With a serene air and a hint of nostalgia, our new Typeface of the Month Perec Scripte is a vertical script font…

Aesthetics Imperfections

How AI is changing the Landscape of Typography
Creativity and innovation are no longer exclusively the province of humans, but the result of collaboration, a game of interpretation in the…

DYAD

By Richard Berengarten and Will Hill
DYAD is a collaboration between the poet Richard Berengarten and the graphic artist Will Hill. It includes 32 image-poems on 80 pages—each…

item Magazin #5

kursiv
item Magazin #5, an independent platform for the transfer of educational impulses, is the student magazine of the Department of Design and…

Schriftenkartei

By Michael Wörgötter
By a stroke of luck, an extraordinary object came into the hands of Michael Wörgötter, Professor of Typography in Augsburg – the…

ABC Connect Unites Fonts with Furniture

A digital dot font and accompanying set of metal brackets, which let users create lettershapes with screws
The German type foundry Dinamo and design studio BNAG have connected (🤭🙄) to create a digital dot font and accompanying set of…

Dynamic Font Day 2023—Recap

After a “creative break” the Dynamic Font Day is back, once again organized by the Typografische Gesellschaft München in the rooms of…

Give Me All Your Money and I’ll Make Some Origami

A Reader and Visual Research to an Alternate View on Graphic Design and Its Education
The study of graphic design is currently moving in an area of tension: on the one hand, critically thinking individuals are to…

Tÿpo St. Gallen—Recap

What nobody talks about.
The three-day typography symposium Tÿpo St. Gallen 2023 took place for the 7th time at GBS St. Gallen, focusing on the conference theme…

Mid-Century Type

By David Jury
Mid-Century Type offers a captivating visual exploration into how, during the middle decades of the previous century, typographers emerged as independent and…

Latent Figures

Jannis Maroscheck
Three years after Shape Grammars (2020), Jannis Maroscheck returns with an updated look on machine-generated graphics and the core motif of mass…

Slanted Magazine #42—Books

Autumn/Winter 23/24
Slanted Magazine #42—Books is a magazine about books. Every day, people ponder whether the future of the (printed) book is tied to…

Capellini

A Fashion-Inspired Variable Serif Font
Capellini is a fashion-inspired variable serif font with high contrast and extremely narrow widths, including corresponding Italics by the new Berlin type…

Typeface of the Month: Routine

By Blaze Type
Come take a look at out latest Typeface of the Month: Routine. Routine is a friendly and playful Sans. With soft edges,…

Fight for Kindness

A Global Celebration of Typography and Kindness
In these tumultuous times, and in an even more self-centric world, genuine acts of kindness are becoming endangered, teetering on the brink…

AR One Sans

The First Open-Source Typeface Family Designed for AR Headsets and Spatial Interfaces
Today, we introduce AR One Sans, an unprecedented typeface family meticulously designed exclusively for augmented reality (AR) environments and spatial user interfaces.…