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The “Basics” are the introduction to the four-year Bachelor course in Visual Communication at the UdK Berlin. The Basics blog documents lectures, seminars, workshops and other events. The main typeface used on the website is NB Akademie (Neubau Berlin). It’s accompanied by Clarendon Graphic (Optimo) and Euclid Stencil (Swiss Typefaces) for teasers and header graphics. The same typographic palette is also used for lecture posters.

Creative direction: Thomas Lehner
Design & programming: Benedikt Rottstegge
Project management: Miriam Kadel
Image editing: Andy King
Video editing: Jana Tost

Poster for the lecture series “Fundamente” at the Medienhaus, May/June 2018. The design by Thomas Lehner uses Euclid Stencil as actual stencil on stylized price stickers, revealing the text in Clarendon Graphic and NB Akademie underneath.

Header graphic from the blog

Video still from an interview with light artist Jean-Louis Gafner. It’s unclear why Clarendon Graphic’s spacing of ts was altered here.

Poster for a lecture by Ulrich Schwarz about “Bauhaus Transfer” on the occasion of the exhibition New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Fotografie und Film at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, February 2018. Design: Thomas Lehner

Teaser image for a blog post about André Vladimir Heiz’s lecture on “Grundlagen der Gestaltung” (Design Basics), January 2017.