In winter 2017/18 we were asked to participate in the collective transformation process of the various cultural centers operated by the city of Hanover. In a number of workshops, initiated and accompanied by Identitätsstiftung, the group’s aim was to face and master the challenges of digitalization and generational change as a cultural institution. Together with the initiators we created a five parts publication named Funkenflug – Stadtteilkultur im Wandel (“Flying sparks – urban district culture in transition”). It consists of a box with booklets, including a collection of illustrations and an atmospheric photographic essay, and can be read as a project documentation and used as an interactive toolbox.

Mériva and Mériva Extra are used throughout.

The project won an iF Award in 2020, and a Silver Medal in the DDC “Gute Gestaltung” 2019.

Addendum is an Austrian print magazine published by QuoVadisVeritas (QVV). QVV is a media and research platform, financed by Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz.

The magazine’s layout was developed by the New York-based agency Sagmeister & Walsh. Title and headlines are set in the characteristic font Larish Alte. Sagmeister and Larish Alte have both Austrian origins. The Vorarlbergian Sagmeister started his career in Vienna. Larish Alte is a renewal of Plinius, a typeface developed in the early 20th century by the Viennese calligrapher and designer Rudolf von Larisch.

On the inside, the magazine shows two very different fonts: The sans serif Mériva is a rather new, affordable, and relatively unknown font and comes with headstrong details which pay tribute to the early grotesque typefaces of the 19th century. The serif Lexicon No. 2 is a classic, exclusive, world-famous font, and a role model of Dutch type design. The layout uses these two fonts to differentiate between special issue (Mériva) and general content (Lexicon).

OPEN CALL: Maximilian Mauracher is publishing a new book in autumn and want you to be part of it. Check out entkunstung.com/opencall and submit your work – photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and sculptors. Deadline is 30 June 2017.
Typefaces: Mériva and Mineral

Studying photography, and then what? Julia Sellmann is drawn to independence and freelance work. Already during her studies, the young photographer started to publish her works, among others, in SZ Magazin. Parallel to her Masters degree, Julia is starting her career as a freelance photographer. She joint forces with the Dortmund-based design studio KoeperHerfurth and created a visual identity which lets her work breathe, harmonizes with it and supports it.

Julia Sellmann takes pictures to tell stories. It is exactly this aspiration, that can also be found in the newly designed website. Not a blunt showing of pictures, but a website that is inspired by an editorial-style telling of stories. Galleries of various lengths, pairs of photographs and text-picture combinations tell the stories behind the individual photographs. Deduced from her work, the system of colors subdivides the contents, indifferent to being a report about mass weddings in South Korea or portraits of Charlotte Roche for Vice Magazine.

Julia’s subtle photography receives a suitable framework. The broad typography, as well as the system of colors, reappears in the printed papers of the photographer. The typographic system that is reduced yet infused with tough character, combined with colorful backgrounds, shows the peculiarities of Julia Sellmann. Letterheads and business cards are printed with variable fronts and backs. Variety in a row.

Credits: Art Direction & Design: KoeperHerfurth, Fabian Köper & Jonas Herfurth, Michelle Flunger, Elena Meyer. Photography: Julia Sellmann

The Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts is located in Vienna and aims at bringing together emerging talents in the fields of fashion, fine arts, photography, design and moving images. The festival takes place April 19–23, 2016.

Photographer: Katarina Šoškić
Art Direction: Christian Schlager, studio VIE
Fashion: Selina Rottmann, Jana Wieland, Hvala Ilija
Models: Ann Kuen @ Flair Model Management, Philipp Paul @ Wiener Models
Make-up & Hair: Julian Burlacu
Location: AFA Offspace