Samt is a student magazine that was launched at HAW Hamburg in 2019. It presents final and semester projects from the Design Department's courses of study and provides insights into working processes, theoretical debates, and design positions. In addition, former students will speak about possible careers and fields of work in the design sector. Projects from the fields of communication design, illustration, fashion design, costume design and textile design at HAW Hamburg will be made accessible to a wider public: Interested parties outside the university are to be reached and informed, within the university the magazine is to stimulate exchange and cooperation in the field of design. The project was led and founded by three communication design students – Alexandra Vögtle, Julika Hother and Katharine Watzlawick – and supported by three more students from other design departments.

The fonts in use are Lucas Kramer’s Brutal Alpha and Jens Schnitzler’s Merkur (EpiType) (including Merkur Display Thin Expanded). The first issue was printed by Von Stern’sche in an edition of 100 copies, on 100g/m² Munken pPlar and 115g/m² Multigloss paper.

Emily Smith

This poster series was created for a series of events at the Digitale Grafik class at Hamburg University of Fine Arts. The series comprised a total of five event dates, to which guest speakers were invited. The design of the posters refers to the invited person and their practice. They were produced using various printing techniques in the workshops of the HFBK Hamburg. Statik, designed for this occasion, is used on the posters in a variety of different widths, from Condensed to Expanded. In addition, an accompanying website was designed and developed.

As a little perk, the poster for “The Rodina” features a large rotated blackletter R.

Matylda Krzykowski

Jakob Kirch

Nadja Buttendorf

The Rodina

Le Livre d’Esther (“The Book of Esther”) was illustrated by Maeva Rubli and published in French and Judaeo-Spanish by Lior éditions, Paris.

This version of the Book of Esther, the meguilah salmantina, was written by a new Christian in the city of Salamanca in the mid-15th century. It faithfully reproduces the Ladino narrative read by Sephardic Jews in the Middle Ages during the carnival festival of Purim. Its highly poetic style, still largely accessible to Spanish speakers, is the result of a meeting of ancient Castilian and biblical Hebrew. French translation by Julia Chardavoine and illustrations by Maeva Rubli. Notes and afterword by Professor Carlos Sainz de la Maza.

The two language versions are available separately, as Le Livre d’Esther and El Libro de Esther, and also as a boxed set with both, titled La meguilah de Salamanque.

The design by Hanna Schiesser combines Merkur (EpiType) and Gräbenbach.