Varianz High Serif and what looks like slightly stretched caps from Fraktion Mono being used for the exhibition and award ceremony of the Arthur-Petersen-Preis 2023.

The Muthesius Kunsthochschule writes:

The Arthur Petersen Prize for Master’s graduates of the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design will be awarded for the first time at the end of November. The Arthur Petersen Foundation is providing the university with a total of 10,000 euros to honour Master's graduates. The scholarship jury will award four prizes of 2,500 euros each for final theses and projects in the Fine Arts, Spatial Strategies, Industrial Design and Communication Design degree programmes. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, 30 November, at 6 pm at sp ce | Muthesius. Afterwards, the four prize-winning works will be on display in the exhibition space of the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design at Andreas-Gayk-Straße 7-11, Kiel.

Location: sp ce | Muthesius; Andreas-Gayk-Straße 7-11, 24103 Kiel
Date: Friday, 01.12.2023 - Saturday, 13.01.2024
Time: All day

Symposion – Ein Tischgespräch über die Kulturarbeit (“A round table about cultural work”) is the title of Jana Vogt’s thesis in Communication Design made at MSD – Münster School of Design in 2023.

The five people who speak in this symposium are mosaic-like assemblages. They are perspective rather than person. Catalysts who were allowed to “feed” on ten personally conducted interviews and ten literary and academic discussions from the field of cultural work.

Jana Vogt gave each of the different perspectives their own voice by using one of the nine styles of VARIANZ. Thus, the tone of the conversation varies and corresponds to the spoken word without creating disharmony or visual clutter.

The Aureum font by Anna Sing is used in initials, interjections and headlines. VARIANZ by Viktor Zumegen is used for subtitles, body text and footnotes.

Jana Vogt writes:

The symposium is a table talk, a playful exchange about the value of cultural work. It is a literary buffet of facts, personal hopes, and concerns of cultural workers. Coming from different places, yet sitting at the same table, those working in culture negotiate realities, share and listen, and feel a sense of belonging. Can this practice, and the feeling it creates for the fictional guests and readers, give rise to a better understanding and appreciation of the process behind cultural production? In my creative process, I combine ethnographic and creative methods. I have organised real voices from the cultural sector in a fictional way on paper and formulated prominent common demands and messages. The table setting is both an invitation and a call: to enter into conversation about what culture creates and what we could create together; to value the efforts it takes to cultivate occasions for encounter, for collective and sensual consumption.

Construction is a magazine conceived and designed by Juliette Ran as a student project in the DNMADE Graphisme édition & typographie program at ENSAAMA. It questions the notion of construction through artistic, sociological and philosophical essays, freeing itself from its materialist conception.

Inspired by La Maison démontable (English: One Week), a silent comedy directed by Buster Keaton, Ran reflected on the edition by progressively reworking its construction principles.

Thus, it plays with the rules of the page layout in a terrain defined by columns and indents. The main thread is the variable font Varianz created by Viktor Zumegen which has two axes: expression and serifs.

Die Zeiten gendern sich is the title of Philipp Ruschke’s thesis in Communication Design made at HAW Hamburg in 2021. It includes a theoretical essay about gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language in German (booklet) and a complete “translation” of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, from the original German translation into a new gender-neutral version (book).

The design features the color scheme of the transgender pride flag as well as the variable superfamily VARIANZ by Viktor Zumegen which slowly shifts its appearance throughout the chapters by using the two axis “Expression” and “Serifs” of the variable font. The change in the typeface isn’t recognisable until you compare the first with the last chapter – in reminiscence of the gender spectrum.

The book has 288 pages (140×215 mm), the booklet 92 pages (206×286 mm).

Lettering, poster series and shop window by Hannes Brischke for Mannequin, an exhibition by Jonathan Maus at Casino Display in Luxembourg.

Photos on the poster by Jonathan Maus and Mirco Kanthak
Subtitle typeface: Varianz Mid Serif by Viktor Zumegen
Photographs by Samantha Wilvert

Bella triste is a journal for contemporary German-language literature.

In issue 63 of the magazine, Vivien Sorrentino and Elfi Handina Murandu used the VARIANZ variable superfamily and ABC Monument Grotesk to the fullest. From headlines to long texts, the variable fonts of VARIANZ are used extensively. They are combined with Monument Grotesk for subtitles, text and information.

Texts in the magazine are written by Olufemi Atibioke, Clara Sondermann, Nora Haddada, Son Lewandowski, Jona Stoll, Paula Kläy, Ta-Som Yun and Leonie Hoh.