Magnet Headline and Magnet Standard by Frere-Jones Type were the typefaces used by SpeedBox Wasabi. The startup distributed tuning chips which offer a complete “unleashed” riding experience for e-bikes by removing the built-in speed limit or setting one’s own maximum speed. Designed by Meadow Green, a small agency in Prague.

Konstringar was published by Natur & Kultur, with a cover featuring Magnet Headline by Frere-Jones Type for the title. The smaller text is added in Alice Savoie’s Faune.

The same typefaces are also used for the interior, together with Molengo by Denis Jacquerye for body text, as well as Bree, TT Ramillas, and one yet unidentified serif.

From the designers of Studio Parasto Backman:

Konstringar is a declaration of love for the possibilities of art to ask difficult questions and formulate the stories of our time. The book intends to make contemporary art accessible so that it reaches far beyond the art world.

The curator and writer Maria Lind has selected 20 pieces of art/case studies. These are divided into 4 different themes/circles; abstraction, handprint, reporting and together.

Continuum vinyl sleeve

Nathan Ott is a jazz composer, drummer, and leader of the Nathan Ott Quartett. He studied music at the universities of Würzburg and Hamburg and released his debut album in 2018, which was the result of a collaboration with jazz legend Dave Liebman. For the release of his third album Continuum, he founded his own label An:Bruch in 2024, with which he aims to break out of the narrow confines of the music industry in order to pursue an interdisciplinary and multimedia vision.

The first design task was to develop a recognizable typographic language for An:Bruch. In a joint selection process, two very contrasting fonts emerged as the winners: Swear by James Edmondson, published by OH no Type Co., and Magnet Headline by Inga Plönnigs, published by Frere-Jones Type. Both designers happen to have studied type design at The Hague’s highly praised Type and Media program.

The media presented in this post use exclusively different variants of Swear for the reading text, while the headlines predominantly (but not exclusively) use Magnet Headline, which has a special feature in the form of a right-leaning italic. This italic is also used for the An:Bruch logotype. While Magnet Headline pushes condensedness to its extreme, Swear is rather broad in proportion.

The visual identity was applied to the two first productions by An:Bruch, the album Continuum by the Nathan Ott Quartett and the performance Resonant Bodies, which Nathan Ott developed together with choreographer Hannah Schillinger. The film footage for Continuum was shot and edited by Nadja Höhfeld, and that for Resonant Bodies by Kai Ehlers.

Continuum vinyl fold

Continuum vinyl labels

Continuum CD

Continuum CD booklet

Continuum CD booklet

Continuum CD booklet

Continuum CD booklet

Flyer for the launch festival

Advertising in a jazz magazine

Reclaim Poetry, January 2024. Two posters, each with a quote. On the left a quaote by Simone Marcelli Pitzalis: “inhabiting a place not ours in suspension is the definition / of haunting a home”. On the right, words from Arundhathi Subramaniam: “It took some time / to realize that /poems are important / Because they have holes in them”.

Reclaim Poetry, January 2024. “And that failing would serve, if only, to repudiate, exorcise the master's damned tools” – Wissal Houbabi

Reclaim Poetry, January 2024. “Bless me free, and be patient / Before my rejection.” – Maram al-Masri

Reclaim Poetry, January 2024. “And I will turn into marvel” – Chandra Livia Candiani

Reclaim Poetry, January 2024. “The word is an entanglement, then collapses like any monument” – Silvia Bre

Reclaim Poetry, March 2024. “No one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than land.” – Warsan Shire

Reclaim Cavalli, May 2024

Reclaim Cavalli, April 2024. “I wasn't born to be reasonable”

Posterwomxn is a platform and online magazine that amplifies the visibility of womxn and non-binary designers and promotes gender equality within the design industry.

The Posterwomxn online magazine, launched in late 2021, builds on the long-running Instagram account as well as the Posterwomxn newsletter. The website features interviews with emerging and established poster designers, event recaps and exhibition reviews. Art directed by Posterwomxn initiator and editor Svenja Prigge and designed by Jihee Lee, the website spotlights the diverse spectrum of design works by womxn* from all backgrounds.

Coding was provided by Jens Schnitzler of Space Practice. For the typography, we used Magnet Headline by Inga Plönnigs, CoFo Sans by Contrast Foundry, and Literata by Irene Vlachou, Veronika Burian, Vera Evstafieva, José Scaglione.

*Womxn is an inclusionary term used to represent a spectrum of genders beyond the gender binary.

You can view the posters on the website as well as on Instagram and Pinterest.

According to the report Big Data and What it Means, Leslie Bradshaw, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 2020:

Assumingly 90% of all information / data ever created appeared in the past two years

Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, this number has likely increased several times. We have reached a point of oversaturation, fatigue, and the stress it entails. We have become surrounded by percentages, numbers, and terabytes that conceal human vulnerabilities, suffering, and insecurity.

On January 11, 2022, according to official data, we exceeded the number of 100,000 people who died due to infection or complications caused by the coronavirus in Poland. It is as if a medium-sized city disappeared from the map of Poland. The death toll continues to rise. Nothing interesting…

Having worked for the media for several years, I created information. I used my camera to record, describe, and try to stay objective. Did it work? I don’t know. After the outbreak of the pandemic, I felt the information overload. Maybe it was fear? I got on my bike. I explored other places and started meeting new people. The photographs I took were different. I steered clear of the tribal divisions that vividly decorate the landscape of social life. The ambiguous intangibility of the times we live in was set aside for a moment.

The photographs were taken in 2020 and 2021, the publication was issued in 600 copies by the Pix.House fundation. Magnet Headline and Magnet Standard are used throughout.

Photos and text: Adrian Wykrota
Design: dobosz.studio
Photo edits: Krzysiek Orłowski
Content supervision: Anna Molter
Proofreading: Michalina Łabiszak
Translation: Konrad Baranowski
Preparing the photographs for printing: Ieva Austinskaitė​​​​​​