Garcías Tochter (“García’s daughter”) is a book documenting the project of the same title by German photographer Alina Simmelbauer:

Around 190,000 migrant workers studied or worked from 1962 to 1990 in the GDR, the socialist brother state. When their work contract expired, they were sent back to their home countries. For many there is something besides their own work history that connects them today with Germany: their children.

Alina Simmelbauer is herself a daughter of a former contract worker who had stayed in the GDR in the early 1980s. However, she first met him only in 2011 in Cuba. Since then she has been searching for people whose family histories resemble hers. In this search she met many children who grew up behind a veil of secrecy; without fathers or knowledge about their whereabouts.

A combination of Suisse Int’l and Archive is used throughout the book. Archival images are mixed with photographs of the artist. See more images on arc’s website.

HKIA Journal is published by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects. Issue 72 “Occupy Housing” was designed by a r c gestaltung.

Suisse Int’l is part of the Suisse typeface, available from Swiss Typefaces.

Bruised Features is a book that arc studio published with Norwegian artist Stian Ådlandsvik. “The layout provides equal importance to the text and image. In this sense, the book reminds us of publications from the field of art history, such as John Berger’s Ways of Seeing.” — It’s Nice That

Suisse Int’l and Suisse Works are part of Suisse typeface, available from Swiss Typefaces.

Poster for The Night Bell With Lightning in the window of KN, ft. Fanfare.

A series of flyers for exhibitions at gallery KN, an art space in Berlin-Schöneberg founded by Jana Nowack. The flyers were designed by arc, each with a different titling typeface. The accompanying sans serif is Thomas Thiemich’s Fakt from 2010.

The Night Bell With Lightning flyer (back). Fanfare was designed in 1927 by Louis Oppenheim for the Berlin-based foundry Berthold. The narrow sans serif/blackletter hybrid is used with loose wordspacing.

The Night Bell With Lightning flyer (front).

Fliegt schnell laut summend flyer (back) ft. Imre Reiner’s Mercurius Script (1957).

Fliegt schnell laut summend flyer (front).

Never get to know flyer (back) ft. Otto Eckmann’s Eckmann (1900).

Never get to know flyer (front).