Outrider Beer Company, a brewpub in Amesbury, Massachusetts, is dedicated to crafting excellent food and beer for their community. When asked to design a merchandise item for them, I aimed to capture a rebellious, motorcycle-inspired vibe without coming across as overly serious or aggressively tough. The photo I selected, sourced from the Austrian National Library, perfectly embodies the company's spirit. This collaboration was a big success.

In the summer of 2021, a total of one hundred multidisciplinary, artistic-creative interventions took place in Dortmund under the title Jahr100Sommer. Things, images, musicians and artists appeared and disappeared again. The city was transformed into a space of art and experience. The result is a visual identity to take along. Cubes can be easily transported as stools, tables or decoration, flags mark the event from afar. The bright yellow, as well as the round and angular dots stand out from the urban space. Elena Schneider’s Konsole nestles to the geometric design language. In addition, an extensive documentation has been created.

In the Ruhr region of modernism, numerous urban buildings were realized not only to provide impulses for new urbanity, but also to serve as projection sites for a new urban society. From 2019 to 2022, the research and mediation project of the Technical University of Dortmund, the Baukunstarchiv NRW and the Museum Folkwang, was dedicated to the question of how certain building tasks in the Ruhr region contributed to the formation of identity, based on the holdings of the Baukunstarchiv NRW.

The digital exhibition StadtBautenRuhr allows a look at the “hidden treasures” of the Baukunstarchiv NRW, whose holdings have been processed under various questions. Plans, sketches, models and photographs provide impressions of the history of planning and building. New photographs taken as part of the research project give an impression of the buildings and their urban surroundings.

Elena Schneider's Konsole has already been used in the accompanying three-volume book series. Its clarity combines perfectly with the mindset of the architects and its technical appearance reflects the requirements of the time.

For most people cultural buildings quite simply form an integral part of a city. Since the 19th century museums, theatres, and opera houses have been prominent and prestigious construction projects for urban architecture. Internationally highly-rated cultural buildings such as the Musiktheater im Revier (district music theater) in Gelsenkirchen, the Folkwang Museum or the Aalto Theatre in Essen, the Quadrat Museum in Bottrop are witnesses of the rebirth of the cities and at the same time have written their history.

The publication tells of a Ruhr District that is re-inventing itself constantly, far from its industrial past. A district of ideas, discussions and decisions that still continue to have an effect on architecture and urban debvelopment today. With the help of plans, models, photographs, correspondence, printed material and other documents, the biographies of some of these buildings are being retraced.

The book alternately introduces individual buildings, interspersed with general scientific specifications. It invites the reader to turn the pages both forward and back. To a walk through the city. Each topic is introduced by a picture section inviting the observer to use his head and discover its content. The large type size allows the shape of the letters of Konsole to stand out clearly. This robust, linear typeface family comes in varying widths, making up the individual chapters.