Das Heu is an editorial experiment meandering the fields of self-publishing and graphic design. The magazine envelops a collection of articles selected by the Wikipedia Random Article Generator and explores the relations of graphic diversity and cohesion within a super-wide, deliberately random spectrum of topics.

This is the first issue of Das Heu, made by Uli Holtschlag, Lara Liske, Jana Hielscher and Robert Franke. The cover uses Ishar Hawkin’s Aachen Old Style. For the interior, we combined Helvetica with Ellmer Stefan’s Triptych Roman and Italick, with support from Iamgod’s MGD Rotter.

A new website for motion designer and art director Joyce N. Ho by New Association.

The website utilises two experimental and eccentric typographic projects — MGD Rotter by iamgod and Lunchtype by Stefan Wetterstrand.

MGD Rotter is a monospace grotesque based on an early cut of Akzidenz-Grotesk as cast by the Bauer foundry, Frankfurt. The typeface stems from a publication by Max Rotter (b. 1881), a Swiss architect and pacifist. Rotter published manifestos calling for a world without borders, a world republic, and world language.

As a Hong Kong born, Australian designer, based in New York City it seems appropriate to use a font derived from such global thinking.

Body copy and captions are set in Lunchtype 22, a freely available open-source font started by Wetterstrand as a lunch break experiment.

From fferd:

Ruff Rap Colours & Mercy is a short documentary about the UK based music video director, animation artist and illustrator Ruffmercy. His unique and raw approach of sketchy animation over video has led him to collaborate with artists such as Run the Jewels, Asap Ferg, Madlib, Lily Allen and Young Thug. After our director Phila discovered his work in 2011, we finally had the chance to meet him and take a look at the person behind the works of Ruffmercy.

Produced at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. The typeface is MGD Orion.

Artwork for German hip-hop musician young.vishnu's album, new.life.

MGD Rotter in use for the portfolio website of graphic designer Marcus Buecken.