On the occasion of the exhibition Fetishizing the Future. Utopias of the Third Dimension at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (December 16th, 2022 until April 16th, 2023), the museum published the artist book FZ. The exhibition as well as the publication examine the social mechanisms behind visions of the future based on the human striving for speed, freedom, peace, immortality, and sustainability. Over the last 120 years, numerous ideas and visions of navigating the skies or traveling through space have learn more
Yannick Nuss | 
Freshly served by Andreas Blindert and Karsten Rohrbeck, Pedro is your new friendly type for messages that ask for size. It’s ideal for wayfinding systems, posters, and magazine headlines. With lots of Stylistic Alternates, OpenType Features, and sunny Icons, it does not only meet modern demands in text setting but presents new and interesting options for typographic layouts. Along with its deep roots in universal geometry come simplicity, understatement, and clarity, while slightly rounded corners take the learn more
Karsten Rohrbeck | 
Riccardo Miotto (b. 1982 in Treviso; lives and works between Treviso and Venice) studied architecture at the Iuav University of Venice. He participated in the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and his graphic work deals with built structures. Riccardo Miotto’s graphic gestures are overtly two-dimensional and emphasize how a form created in the mind’s eye is only possible and present when an imaginary tension is generated. His book Riccardo Miotto—Tents tell of a hypothetical land, imaginary yet plausible, o learn more
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The Tag der Schrift 2023 is an educational event that focuses on typeface design. Jointly organized by the School of Design Zurich and the union Syndicom it already takes place for the twentieth time. To celebrate the anniversary appropriately the event lasts two days this year. Therefore, the program is even more abundant than usual. The Swiss and German speakers offer exciting insights into their work and the topic of type design. In his lecture Renan Rosatti shows the ways variable fonts influence the cr learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
The incessant trend to throw away rather than to repair, demolish rather than refurbish has been a topic of discussion and criticism for years—at the same time, resource consumption, and the waste continue to increase. To counteract this trend, students at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and ETH Zurich have been developing sustainable and imaginative concepts for repairing a wide variety of objects, applying them both manually and by using digital techniques such as 3D printing. Beyond restorat learn more
Xuyen Dam | 
The Arizona Type Specimen is a five color, split-page, spiral-bound showcase of ABC Arizona. Designed by Elias Hanzer, ABC Arizona is the first ever sans-to-serif Variable Font that packages its five looks — Serif, Text, Mix, Flare, and Sans —into one single file. This specimen celebrates Arizona’s countless combinations through its split structure. You can mix and match the half pages to discover the typeface family’s vast system. Just like monster picture books for kids. The Arizona Type Specimen Design: learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
In today’s ever digitized and often deceptive media landscape, there is an increasing need for a counterbalance: for an independent, high-gloss, low-circulation print magazine; one that uses art as an alternative communication channel to inform readers about contemporary social concerns that are usually ignored by mainstream media. One and a half years later, after the Berlin-based STUCK Magazine launched its first-ever pilot print issue (000), now the second edition (001)—with the title subworld episodes — learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
This Typeface of the Month: Marlide Display is a flamboyant and vibrant typeface evocative of a transitional roman or Latin design with elegant roundly bracketed serifs and a considerable thick to thin contrast. The letterforms are condensed and embrace both, curves and pointed elements that create an interlocking rhythm with a lively texture. The letter inspiration goes back to a late nineteenth century type form, in turn derived from inscriptions of Roman Antiquity and the neo-Renaissance period. During t learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
PARCOURS 22|23 invites you on behalf of all graduates to the exhibition of bachelor’s theses from the fields of illustration, communication, media, and product design as well as master’s theses from February 3rd to February 5th, 2023. Parcours is a tribute to the graduates and their creativity. The exhibited bachelor’s and master’s theses put the complexity of social issues in a unique spotlight and at the same time direct our attention to the essentials. The results offer clever and creative approaches to learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races, and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use. learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
Glow in the Dark is the motto of this winter’s semester show Werkschau School of Design Pforzheim. The design students bring light into the dark season: a glow and radiance, an impetus not to lose faith in difficult times. Because creative work can be a ray of hope and inspiration at the same time. And there will be plenty of that for everyone at the Werkschau! A warm invitation to the Werkschau on February 10th and 11th, 2023: six Bachelor’s and three Master’s programs, art, design, food, drink, music, an learn more
Birgit Meyer | 
This year’s Graphic Stories comes fresh and renewed, as it harbors the Power of Youth and brings new activities with it! The new program is subversive as the lectures will take place on Sunday, March 19th, while the workshops will precede and will take place on Friday, March 17th and Saturday, March 18th, 2023. More specifically, the three-day program hosts twelve [12] distinguished designers from Germany, England, Greece, and Cyprus. It includes nine lectures, six creative workshops, one animation film scr learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
How could visiting Seoul be described in a way that allows someone else to feel like they are right there? What to say? What perspectives to choose? What Should I Say—About Seoul takes the reader on a path less traveled: The work and daily-life of Korean designers; but not just as a spectator. The book gives a glimpse into South Korean society that is not so common after all: Some of the insights into the Seoul work experience appear grim at places, colored by the ongoing pandemic that forced people to cut learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
To mark the end of its 30th anniversary year, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe will be hosting The Future of Gestaltung (The Future of Design) symposium on February 9th and 10th, 2023. Designed as an open discussion format, in addition to the members and guests of the HfG, the city’s public should also actively participate and enrich the numerous offerings in the form of roundtables, presentations, debates or pop-up events with their contributions and thought experiments. In keeping with t learn more
Tessa Breuer | 
In 2016, MIT Professor Neri Oxman published an article in which she stated the link between the following disciples: science, design, engineering and art. This so-called creative energy was coined by Professor Oxman as „The Krebs Cycle of Creativity.“ The underlying idea of it states that knowledge can’t be produced or created but rather that the aforementioned disciplines can be intertwined. In this way, Professor Oxman attempts to create a genealogy of the interrelationship between science, design, engine learn more
acostaab |