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23/08/2025

This week we visited the solo exhibition VENUS of Noriaki Hayashi , Winner of the 27th Kamekura Yusaku Award (and art director, graphic designer, professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design, and member of AGI) at the legendary GGG Gallery, Tokyo .

This body of work takes “VENUS,” the image icon of Joshibi University of Art and Design, as its theme. The exhibition unfolds through new works, award-winning posters, and rare rough sketches that reveal the very moment a design comes to life. Highlights include delicate hand-printed silkscreen works, layering white ink on white paper before expanding into vibrant colors and forms—an intimate look at the origins of Hayashi’s creative impulse.

Alongside these, the show presents two decades of student recruitment posters for Joshibi University, each steeped in Hayashi’s signature geometric and poetic visual language. His pursuit of form, rhythm, and space has placed him among Japan’s most acclaimed designers, earning top honors including the Tokyo TDC Award and Tokyo ADC Award.

📍 GGG Gallery, Tokyo
🗓️ Ongoing this month

22/08/2025

ODÉON THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE isn’t just a theatre—it’s a landmark. And now, it speaks with a bold new voice.✨

A striking new identity for , shaped by with the amazing team of maxence_vandevelde .nevil . Every element—from typography to layout—echoes the drama, legacy, and European spirit of the stage. Printed with precision by , it’s a graphic performance in its own right. We’re obssesed!🖤🎭

@ Pictures by Choque Le Goff

21/08/2025

The Northern Block’s latest release, Lintel Next, marks a major milestone for the foundry and expands its ambitious “Next” series—joining the likes of Nuber Next, Loew Next (which includes Arabic and Devanagari scripts), and Nurom Next.

A reimagining of the original Lintel—first recognized for its appearance in Mafia III—this new version draws inspiration from the modernist philosophy of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. His signature blend of geometric clarity and natural, organic flow became a guiding force in reshaping the typeface’s tone and construction.

Eighteen months in the making, Lintel Next brings a complete overhaul of the original design. The team reworked the Cyrillic, added full Greek language support, and expanded the family to include six widths—resulting in a powerful superfamily of 96 styles. Its clean structure and flexible range make it a strong choice for branding, editorial, and digital environments alike.

Lintel Next reflects The Northern Block’s ongoing commitment to functional, well-crafted type rooted in clarity, rhythm, and usability.

Type Designers: Jonathan Hill and Tasos Varipatis
Graphic Designer: Donna Wearmouth
Motion Graphics: Tasos Varipatis
Ukrainian Translator: Kateryna Korolevtseva
Copywriter: Daniel Clark
Released: July 2025
Extent: 96 Styles (6 Widths, 8 Weights, 8 Italics)
File Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Trial Fonts: Yes (on request)

Further information here thenorthernblock.co.uk/fonts/p/lintel-next

The Northern Block’s latest release, Lintel Next, marks a major milestone for the foundry and expands its ambitious “Next” series.

20/08/2025

We feared it might be impossible to share this issue on social media — algorithms too often fail to recognize that it’s not about s*x per se, but about a publication that deeply engages with how bodies are represented.

📖 Slanted Magazine #45—Sex approaches the theme from contemporary and historical perspectives, showcasing zines, booklets, posters, and publications that confront body politics, self-image, and identity. As visual narratives shape norms, marginalized bodies — non-binary, q***r, disabled, racialized — are still underrepresented or tokenized. This issue invites readers to question these conventions and to reflect critically on the media’s role in shaping how we see bodies.

all pictures are raw screenshots from the printfiles :)
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19/08/2025

We published SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TYPE II recently. And now, a year later, we are again a team: with Marian from , and myself (.harmsen) we are working on a new, massive book...spoiler alarm...its again all about type, typography, fonts, lettering...We let you know soon. Big surprise :)))

18/08/2025

18/08/2025

Seven names. Seven lives. One heavy book—literally and emotionally. This striking photobook brings together seven personal stories of criminalized boat drivers, told through powerful photography, respectful storytelling, and razor-sharp design. 📘

Names like Alieu, Muhammed, Haruna, and Zafer appear quietly in the top left corner of each chapter. What unfolds is anything but quiet: images of life-altering places, damning documents, and the faces of those affected. With bold typography, space-conscious layouts, and subtle materials, the book gives these stories room to breathe—and hit hard. Glossy inserts disrupt the flow with pixelated screenshots of EU political debates, confronting readers with the decisions that shaped these lives.

A deeply collaborative work by photographers Nora Börding () & Anne Speltz () and designers Maria Calzolari (.calzolari) & Hendrik Heinicke (.heinicke.atelier)—blending long-term research with a design language that demands attention!

© Pictures by Nora Börding, Anne Speltz, Maria Calzolari, Hendrik Heinicke

17/08/2025

Can digital worlds be tender?
These are a few screenshots from the book Tender Digitality. We had so much fun desinging it, mixing typefaces,...Tender Digitality by explores how sensuality, intuition, and human connection can find a place in our digital environments — and how these experiences can flow back into the analog world of a book.

Developed at the Zurich University of the Arts, it offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives, inviting readers to experiment with new forms of “tender digitality” across the spaces between analogue & digital, social & technological.

With contributions from inspiring voices, the book imagines communities where humans, AIs, avatars, and cyborgs navigate digital landscapes with agency and sensitivity. 💫

16/08/2025

In June I joined to be in Ukraine, where we brought the Whale to life: a Hub that is a creative space for children affected by the war.

Together with ART HELPS, a dedicated group of students form — Emma Beckmann, Elisa Kadelka, Julia Orlik, Julian Tillmann, Sophia Klimaszewski, Alexandra Sagalow, Nicole Rasch Burlotti, Svea Oerter, Jona Kranzusch, and Sophie Stanosek — and the Swiss company Luft&Laune (Zürich), this inflatable whale was created as a safe space for kids to express, heal, and dream through art.

Inside, workshops with children opened doors to imagination and offered moments of comfort and hope. The whale, symbolizing shelter and protection, now travels across Ukraine — carried by a converted truck — bringing creativity, resilience, and light into dark times.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who made this possible. 💙💛

15/08/2025

Mut zur Wut 2025 is live in Heidelberg—and it’s louder, bolder, and more global than ever. 🔥🧨

This isn’t your typical poster show. With over 2,500 entries from 54 countries, has grown into one of the world’s most important platforms for political poster art. The open call invites designers and artists to turn rage into bold, visual protest—calling out injustice, inequality, censorship, and the cracks in our systems. No theme restrictions. Just fearless messages that demand to be seen.

The result? A curated selection of 30 award-winning posters, plus 70 finalists, plastered across public spaces and exhibited inside the . It’s a striking takeover of both street and gallery—where the visual language of dissent takes center stage.

Whether you’re in it for the art, the message, or the movement—don’t miss this!🚀

🗓️ Now through September 21, 2025
📣 Posters, shirts, and official MZW catalogs available at the museum.
📍 Völkerkundemuseum, Hauptstraße 235, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

© Pictures by Alina Grolms

14/08/2025

Mark your calendars—on September 27–28, 2025, Pavillon-Presse invites you to Weimar for the 12th Walbaum Wochenende, a two-day conference dedicated to exploring the evolving relationship between visual communication and design standards. With a full program of talks and a hands-on workshop, this year’s theme—Standards, Inclusion, Legibility—promises timely insights and critical debate.

In design, norms and standards can be powerful tools. They help create clarity, improve readability, and make communication more inclusive. But they can also limit flexibility and creativity, raising the question: where do helpful frameworks end and rigid constraints begin?

Walbaum Wochenende 2025 takes a closer look at that tension—between order and openness, rule and interpretation—across the fields of type, image, and layout. What do today’s standards demand from designers? Who benefits, and who gets left out?

Hosted by Pavillon-Presse, the conference offers a platform for discussion, learning, and reflection for anyone working with or studying visual communication. Whether you’re interested in typography, accessibility, or the broader social impact of design systems, this weekend in Weimar is not to be missed.

When?
September 27–28, 2025

Where?
Pavillon-Presse
Scherfgasse 5
99423 Weimar
Germany

Further information here pavillon-presse.de/walbaum-wochenende/standards2025/

Mark your calendars—on September 27–28, 2025, Pavillon-Presse invites you to Weimar for the 12th Walbaum Wochenende, a two-day conference.

14/08/2025

Something exciting is heating up—literally! “VOID—Reflections” is coming this October, and we’re already buzzing about the cover (spoiler: it features thermosensitive varnish).🌡✨

This stunning book marks the 10-year anniversary of Oslo-based design studio VOID , known for pushing boundaries at the intersection of art, design, tech, and informatics. Carefully curated, it showcases a decade of experimental work—paired with poetic and critical texts from contributors like Silje Linge Haaland, Michael Hensel, Elise By Olsen, and more. Rather than speaking solo, VOID opens up a multi-voiced dialogue that dives deep into the questions and aesthetics behind their practice.

Stay tuned. This one’s special! 👀