⌘E (Command E) is the student magazine of the Media Design program at DHBW Ravensburg. The fourth issue evolved from a second semester graphic design project on the exciting topic of “chaos and control”. In keeping with this, ⌘E4 was developed as a non-linear concept and realized in six aspects: Norm, Context, Development, Communication, Perspective and Perception. Each aspect is treated and visualized as a separate episode. Held together by a slipcase, the loose episodes invite you to rearrange them again and again and create new thematic references. The entire magazine is thus to be understood as either/or, back/forth, or open/closed – as an embodiment of “chaos and control”. The choice of two types of printing – digital and Riso – symbolizes the influences that the content and design have on each other. ABC Monument Grotesk is paired with Kepler (not shown here).

Creative, good, beautiful, experimental, ingenious, and bold ideas shouldn't just gather dust on hard drives or disappear into folders that no one ever looks at again. Zwischenablage brings those ideas out of hiding and gives them a well-deserved stage year after year. In this magazine edited by Media Design students of DHBW Ravensburg, they are presented in all their variety and diversity: some loud, some quiet, some colorful, pointed, soft, lovely, beautiful, warm or clean. Some are even completely different, as different as the people who made them. They have only one thing in common: this art cannot and must not disappear.