Graffiti doesn’t just live on walls anymore, it lives in feeds. Consumed in seconds, from top to bottom. The title goes beyond a slang term, it reflects how we see and scroll through (sub)culture today: fast, fleeting, and often replaceable.

The first issue of TOP2BOTTOM (T2B) dives 144 pages deep into the Swabian avant-garde stretching from Stuttgart to Lake Constance. What started as an open call for submissions turned into a collective snapshot of the region’s scene, blending community-sent photos with personal field documentation collected over the past two years. It’s an analog response to digital noise, a way to slow things down and document subcultural fragments that might be gone tomorrow. Featuring key actors of the southern scene presented in textual contributions and showcased as four special chapters.

For the typography, I used Aether by DDOTT and Neue Montreal by Pangram Pangram. The magazine has 144 pages measuring 170×240 mm and comes with a thread binding. It was printed in Stuttgart in a limited edition of 100 copies – which sold out within 24 hours. Published via T2B Press.

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Looking at today's design, it can be observed how visual trends repeat themselves after some time by citing styles from past eras. This happens in a cycle of about 20 years. In the process, the origins of today's trends are mostly unknown and it seems as if there is a constant imitation of already existing designs.

But how do design trends emerge and who determines the formal language in which contemporary design unfolds? By tracing historical developments in design, the book deals with the reappraisal of the hitherto undocumented remains of Studio Vernacular’s trend archive, which, beginning in the 1980s, had a great influence on the history of European design and whose work continues to this day.

The book uses Neue Montreal (with NeueBit) by Pangram Pangram and SangBleu Republic by Swiss Typefaces. It was made as a student project at DHBW Ravensburg.

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Poster for an online workshop about experimental typefaces by Duo Konstrukt using Asfalt by Dinamo and Bickham Script from Adobe.