Transit Architektinnen is a Leipzig-based architecture studio, led by by Laura Bracke and Diana Felber.

The front page of their portfolio website is composed of project images and white space. Each time it is reloaded, the front page is reassembled. Images are randomly stacked according to a set of pre-defined grid-based rules, creating surprising compositions and combinations of different projects, giving the site a lively feel on each visit.

A project index helps to find a specific project. The project pages can be composed of images and white space using grid structure in a custom backend, running Kirby as a content management system.

Developed by Wolfgang Schwärzler in collaboration with and programmed by Jonas Holfeld.

The design of the website’s headline typeface, Lelo Mono by Katharina Köhler, was started around 2020/21 as a custom version of Lelo for this visual identity. It was further developed as a collective effort by Maurice Göldner, Nina Faulhaber, Katharina Köhler, and Wolfgang Schwärzler at Camelot and released in 2021.

In the campaign Stedet Tæller X, New Carlsberg Foundation and Realdania have entered into a partnership where art and architecture are set to contribute to activate, develop, and highlight the locally rooted potentials in Denmark’s least populated areas. In the intersection between art and architecture, local distinctiveness is to be evoked, creating new relevance. Stedet Tæller X is designed for those special – perhaps forgotten – places and for the collaboration between art and architecture.

The branding is designed by Le Bureau with the serif typeface Romie by Margot Lévêque and the sans serif Lelo by Katharina Köhler. The latter seems to be used with a customized æ in the logo.

Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, design lead, in collaboration with Jessica De Jesus and Margot Harrington

Bitch Media publishes Bitch, an independent, quarterly magazine with the tagline “a feminist response to pop culture.” In 2018 they rebranded their monthly membership program as The Rage—a dramatic shift from the previous, cheerful B-Hive branding. The name doubles down on anger, “the most untouchable aspect of respectability for those of us in marginalized communities,” per editor-in-chief Evette Dionne. The flexible design system for The Rage centers around Cortado, set in all caps and individually distorted for different applications such as totes, mugs, bookmarks, and membership cards.

Corresponding with the new system, Bitch released “The Future Is Furious,” a mini-issue “about women’s anger—and, more specifically, about how that anger is policed, dismissed, and overlooked” (PDF download). Interior pages pair Cortado (undistorted) with Lelo and Tiempos. The design team shared this note by email:

During our research phase of the rebrand, we were heavily influenced by hand lettering of protest posters and 80’s and 90’s punk aesthetics. When searching for a typeface we looked for something that felt hand-lettered, elevated and had a bit of punk attitude and urgency, Cortado stuck a perfect balance of personality and edge for the Rage Rebranding. For the final logo Corzo-Duchardt manipulated print outs of Cortado on an old photocopier to push the emotion of anger and urgency even further.

“The Future Is Furious” cover lettering (Jessica De Jesus, design lead)

“The Future Is Furious” interior spread (Jessica De Jesus, design lead)

“The Future Is Furious” interior spread (Jessica De Jesus, design lead)

“The Future Is Furious” interior spread (Jessica De Jesus, design lead)

“The Future Is Furious” interior spread (Jessica De Jesus, design lead)

“<100 is a traveling pop-up shop for gender wage equality.” — lessthan100.org

The project’s producers are Elana Schlenker and Tammy Mercure.
Front-end development: Ashley Englisch-Spinney
Illustration: Grace Danico
The typefaces in use are Matrix by Zuzanna Licko and the yet unreleased Lomo by Katharina Köhler [released in June 2016 as Lelo].