Megazoid and Nobel (Frere-Jones) Black

Various designs for the Blender Workshop, a regular event running at naund, Leipzig. Participants will learn to create some cool 3D objects using the free and open-source Blender software.

Tiny, Arachne, and Kern Expanded

Kodchasan and Pressio

BVH Anto Plot Mono and BM Hanna Pro

Designed by studio other types, Kinematic Cache is a project by Berlin based Taiwanese artist Yu-Ling Hsueh. Her project deals with the construction of a tunnel through the Xueshan mountain range in Taiwan and the soundscape it produces. From design studio Other Types (translated from German):

It is a transparent cassette that reflects the hollow space of the tunnel and allows light to shine through the cassette. The arrangement of Chinese characters and Latin letters overlap. The inlay is a leporello fold, which in turn also suggests the association of a tunnel. The abstracted topographical image on the back of the leporello radiates something sonorous, as does the arrangement of the texts.

Printed in an edition of 100 copies (Risograph, one-color pad printing, and 4-color offset printing). The typefaces in use are Bastardo Grotesk by Giulia Boggio, Noto Serif TC by Adobe/Google Fonts, and Arachne by Leonhard Laupichler.

Read more about the project on the website of Motto Distribution.

The Holy Crown of Hungary is one of the oldest remaining intact crowns in Europe. It is a symbol of Hungarian statehood and has been the subject of scientific research for centuries. Dozens of Hungarian and foreign experts have studied its structure, its parallels in art history, as well as the story of the object itself. The crown has become a prominent part of the career of textile artist Éva Nagy. It was she who created the velvet cushion that the crown was placed on in the Domed Hall of the Parliament building. Her initial interest steadily grew into a total of 21 years of research. In the resulting 260-page book Örökség (“Heritage”) she seeks an answer to the question of what the Holy Crown of Hungary communicates to us today.

The principal motivation for her reflections has been the discovery of the secret symbolism of the coronation insignia. In her view, the Holy Crown is a work of art that symbolically represents the universe in miniature, synthesizing culture, science, art, and divine law. Its main value, apart from its historical function and sacrality, lies in the possibility of knowing and being one with the world and Christ. It is not just an object, it is a symbol of the spirituality of our ancestors.

In the course of her research, she discovered that the apostles and wise men featured in the enamel paintings are communicating with their hands in a secret sign language, and the inscriptions alongside them are made up of abbreviations and fragments of words. As such they are ambiguous and open to multiple interpretations. They also form an acronym that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. In this way, she has moved from the study of the seemingly decorative elements of the crown to that of a symbolic system of fragments of words in foreign languages. She has uncovered an old-new language based on a ‘letter stair’, which became a decisive element in the design of the page layout and typography, set in Neue Haas Grotesk (headlines use Arachne). The book is divided into two parts, the subsections within those parts are articulated into golden pages for the reader. Although Éva’s research was at first a pastime, she now sees her hypotheses as more thought-provoking. For her book, she has created artistic drawings, graphics, and paintings to help us learn more about the Holy Crown of Hungary and discover our heritage.

Art direction, graphic design: Kira Koroknai
Photography: Kevin Harald Campean

Ultima Floración is the latest EP of Arcane Prospect, an electronic music (techno) project that seeks to reflect the ephemeral but beautiful melancholy that constant life has. In order to express this feeling I used Arachne that, thanks to its serifs, reflects the melancholy. I modified it, turning it into a more vertically extended version that will occupy the entire format to signify a statement of this moment. At the same time a superposition of the letters u and f set in Sword will generate a relationship with the Artificio record label which produced the record. On the back a composition using Telegraf and Fit adds an interesting contrast by dividing each of the songs.

Designed to bring a new breath to the heart of independent magazines, Gummistrikk is made in the spirit of magazines from the early 1990s. It was born in Milan as a reaction against the superficial glamour, and as a part of the global counterculture movement.

Working with undiscovered, unknown artists, Gummistrikk manages to capture a fashionable world in a way that pushes away superficiality and replaces it with personal expression and quality.

The magazine logo uses Pickle-Standard, with the theme set in Fat Porn. The magazine interior pairs Roobert with two similar-looking serif typefaces: Arachne and Silk Serif.

Gummistrikk magazine is a personal design project and has not been published. See more images on Behance.

Brussels-based graphic design studio Alliage has designed the joyful identity of this delicious grape juice. François Lachal’s jus de raisin muscat is made at La Castelette, in the south of France.

Alliage is using an older version of the typeface Arachne for the branding. It’s paired with a yet unidentified monospaced neogrotesk [edit: It’s ABC Monument Grotesk Mono, see comments].