The publication Was bedeutet für mich Designkritik? (“What does design criticism mean to me?”) is dedicated to a subject that is currently given little attention. Neither the public nor the design disipline itself deals with criticism in depth—unlike, for example, visual arts, literature, music, etc. In order to counteract this, people who work in design in various functions were asked the same question: What does design criticism mean to you? Twenty personal answers show how relevant the critical discourse is with and for design.

The book is published by Prima.Publikationen (Stuttgart / Basel), a young publishing house for design and artists books, founded by Ephraim Ebertshäuser and Marina Gärtner of studio it’s mee who designed the book.

Messina Serif (Bold and Bold Italic) is the main typeface, paired with Moderat with its alternate lowercase letters a, g and y activated.

Over the course of a year, graphic designers Mark Bohle and Raffael Kormann designed posters for all concerts at the music and arts venue Kulturzentrum Merlin in Stuttgart. The publication Tonight at Merlin captures this noticeable collection. For each of the 80 posters, some of which have been awarded internationally, the publication offers an honest glimpse into the visual making-of and the corresponding thoughts behind. Moreover the publication is linked to the bands and their posters, enabling the reader to listen to the corresponding sound while deep diving into the artworks.

Three essays by Arne Hübner (booking Merlin, designer and DJ), Niklaus Troxler (poster designer and founder of the Jazz festival Willisau) and Das bisschen Totschlag (Brunchpop-Band) contextualise this stimulating symbiosis of visual communication, music and popular culture.

The book is published by Prima.Publikationen (Stuttgart / Basel), a young publishing house for design and artists books.

The book Design Shifts – Talks, Discourse, Typo–/Graphic Posters documents 10 years of various talks in the Media Design programme at DHBW Ravensburg, Germany. On 248 pages, the publication presents more than 100 event posters and graphic experiments for international guest lectures. As a visual response to each talk, design professor Klaus Birk and committed students, lecturers and alumni designed individual typographic posters for the respective events. The poster compilation is supplemented by short descriptions of all lectures, as well as five contemporary essays by selected former speakers: Sarah Boris, Nina Juric, Sarah Owens, Florian Pfeffer, Roland Stieger.

The book is published by Prima.Publikationen (Stuttgart / Basel), a young publishing house for design and artists books, founded by Ephraim Ebertshäuser and Marina Gärtner of studio it’s mee who designed the book.

The typography pairs Suisse Int’l (with its alternate lowercase a activated) and Suisse Works.