SPRINGERIN 30 YEARS

Corporate Identity, Editorial Design

Generated midjourney AI cover by Zorro Zuo for the Space for Visual Research Workshop @ DesignSummer academy, Hangzhou, China, September 2024. For the motif on the back cover, ChatGPT was asked to analyze the AI-generated cover image based on a possible underlying prompt. The resulting image description was then used again for AI image generation. The new image is the result of the process. The magazine in this issue is entirely designed to be read from back to front, meaning it follows a reversed order while simultaneously presenting a negative counterpart: The more you focus, the more you know, the longer it stays, the more it will grow.

KAPWANI KIWANGA, TRINKET 2024

Corporate Identity

Kapwani Kiwanga Represents Canada at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2024

Kapwani Kiwanga is a multi-disciplinary artist who considers how diverse forms of power are manifested, how the histories they suppress are often overlooked, and their impact on everyday life. Her works function as experiential archives that offer temporary ruptures in established conventions, allowing audiences to both experience and imagine alternative ways of relating and being. With Trinket, Kiwanga transforms the Canada Pavilion by way of a site-specific sculptural installation. She invites visitors into an immersive environment through an ambitious intervention on the building’s interior and exterior. Viewed from its facade, the building becomes a large-scale tableau where distinctions between inside and outside dissolve through transparency, layering, and transgressing of the building’s original boundaries. Curator: Gaëtane Verna. The 2025 upcoming publication will include photos by Helene Binet.

GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2025

The design of the show based on the idea of circular design. This principle of sustainability and interconnected cycles was visualized through the corporate design of the award ceremony. A sequence of graphic shapes, colors, and movements playfully illustrated this methodology. The Designs are a close collaboration with Oliver Hardt and Michael Wagner. German Design Council, 2025

ICI OPEN MUSEUM

Exhibition

self-initiated, predominantly artistic projects. The ICI OPEN MUSEUM in Xiamen, China is presenting the exhibition, composed of videos and large-format prints, in its in-house gallery until the end of January. For the first time, this exhibition also serves as a showroom of a 2007 – 2024 design retrospective. Additionally, proposals for the expansion of Latin characters are being visualized as wall graphics and presented to the public in China for the first time.

Curator: QIN Jian

DO THE STARS NEED A REASON TO SHINE?

Between the world of ideas and their possible materialization there is an elusive zone that is hard to conceptualize. Not design. Not art. Not theory either. It’s the ultrathin realm of the new. Today no one explores this sphere of pure visual intelligence with the same authority and precision as Markus Weisbeck.
Daniel Birnbaum

In an era of instantaneous design enabled by technology, Weisbeck’s careful and methodical experimentation re-teaches us how to see.
Paula Scher

189 pp., 230 colour illustrations, threadsewn hardcover, ISBN: 9783959056380 Spector Books

documenta. POLITIK UND KUNST

Campaign

The “d” is documenta’s distinctive mark and the defining element of the communication media for the DHM exhibition documenta. Politics and Art. The geometrically constructed letter takes up the history of graphic images — from the first documenta in 1955 to documenta X in 1997. Historical photographs of the major international exhibition are used, which are given a common identifying mark in the form of the “d”. The resulting surfaces are overprinted with colours that also go back to historical originals. The form and colours pay tribute to the visual diversity of the graphic design of the international exhibition. A typographic element with the correct counting of the respective exhibitions is introduced as a supplement.

SONDERMARKEN

Different designs of special stamps for the Federal Ministry of Finance 2018 – 2024. A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or object. The subject of the commemorative stamp is usually spelled out in print, unlike definitive stamps which normally depict the subject along with the denomination and country name only.

DESIGN DEUTSCHLAND, WORD UP, DÜSSELDORFER SCHAUSPIELHAUS, ACT ART CULTURE

Identity

These examples of logo brands show different visual approaches of identity designs such as Design Deutschland für the Triennale di Milano, Italy, the Lyric Festival Word Up, Germany, the Compitionion proposal for Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Germany and ACT Art Culture Technology for one Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA

MIRIAM CAHN

Editorial Design

Released on the occasion of Miriam Cahn’s solo exhibitions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, this publication gives a comprehensive overview of the acclaimed Swiss artist’s extensive and versatile body of work. Ed. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Gaëtane Verna, text(s) by Amin Alsaden, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Miriam Cahn, Aruna D’Souza, Roxane Gay, Gaëtane Verna, John Yau

≈ CLOUDS / ≈ / Cool Words

Poster

The latest advances in image generation using artificial intelligence (AI) are undoubtedly impressive. However, somewhat later, effective censorship and correction of certain features was also introduced. In the early versions of AI image generators, for example, it was still possible to combine human body parts in unusual ways, such as a combination of nose and ear or eye and mouth. Nowadays, this type of generation is generally no longer possible. This change is mainly due to ethical and safety considerations. The developers of AI systems have realised that the ability to generate such distorted or surreal images could be misused to create disturbing or harmful content. They have therefore integrated censorship and correction mechanisms into the algorithms to ensure that the images generated do not become an unpleasant problem. Design for the AGI Special Project in Basel 2024.

The “Cool Words” International Words Art Design Exhibition 2024 in Nanjing, China, initiated by Nanjing University of the Arts, stands as an international showcase dedicated to font researchers, designers and academic professionals. It promotes the continuous development and evolution of words art design through originality and exploratory approaches.

GRIDLESS NOTATIONS


Corporate Identity

Diagrams explain the important themes for designers: „looking at ideas“, „taste classified“ and „What you have to say“ as the basis of creative output.

AUTOPOIESIS


La Vie À Noir

is a 1999 album by Autopoieses, a collaboration between German electronic musicians Ekkehard Ehlers and Sebastian Meissner. The album features experimental electronic compositions characterized by glitch aesthetics and ambient soundscapes. A remastered version, titled "Live A Noir (Remaster)," was released in 2019.

1 Untitled 1:00 – 45 Untitled 1:00, Mille Plateaux ‎1999