DESIGN From New Architecture to New Celebrations4/14/2016Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst is showing typography and graphic design from the early 20th century through to the present.
ARCHITECTURE Ressource Africa3/24/2015Vitra Design Museum is devoting not just one, but two exhibitions to Africa. While the one suggests the "re-maker culture" is a blueprint for design in the Global North, the other explores how to achieve architectural independence.
DESIGN Respelling Bauhaus7/25/2014The Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin has announced a new corporate design along with a new font. “bayer next” by L2M3 borrows from the Universal font designed by Herbert Bayer in 1926 at the Bauhaus – carefully transposing it into the present.
DESIGN The Mexican storyteller3/30/2014Ricardo Casas is one of Mexico’s industrial designers committed to experimental interior design. In his work he makes use of wood in very many ways and in the process tells stories about spaces.
DESIGN Atmospheres created from water vapor10/4/2013The bathroom – a little world of wonder made up of technology, light and water. As one of the leading trade shows in the area of ceramics, “Cersaie” in Bologna once again revealed just what can be achieved in the wellness zone.
MAGAZINE Patterns and precious metals12/10/2012An homage, all you need to know about metal, conceptual photography and a hermetic text body – this autumn, Trademark Publishing, from Frankfurt agency “Sign Kommunikation” who enjoy strong links with Stylepark has yet again presented us with a whole host of exciting new releases for the avid reader
MAGAZINE Ready for take-off3/25/2012Not much longer to go, as in early June the Berlin Brandenburg airport opens. Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich at Moniteurs designed the signage system. In fact, the first signs have already been put in place on the construction site.
MAGAZINE 100 years of Swiss graphic design3/7/2012In terms of graphic design, Switzerland is a world leader. Züricher Museum für Gestaltung, the Zurich Design Museum, is currently demonstrating why, in a show that provides an overview of all Swiss design has to offer and is well worth seeing.
MAGAZINE One hundred best posters7/20/2011From busy images to quiet ones to wild games with letters – the work featured in a competition, "100 best posters", gladdens the eye and makes the heart beat a little faster.
MAGAZINE Speedy Gonzales4/8/2011Kurt Weidemann defined the public image of such major companies as Deutsche Bahn and Daimler Benz. The typographer and graphic designer saw himself as an intermediary between content and observer, not as an artist. The master of lettering and language, who himself said he had seen too much to be good, passed away on March 30.
MAGAZINE Sergeant Pepper’s Longing for the Fur Cup2/8/2009Don't think graphic designers would be content with giving surfaces an appealing design. They too feel the urge to break out into the freedom of 3D. What happens when they do so can be marveled at in the book ‘Drei D - Grafische Räume.'
DESIGN Inspiration from your jacket pocket5/1/2001It needn’t always be digital. The good old notebook, without the upper case N, proves its worth in an age when everyone has to be permanently creative.