ballesterer magazine #186, March 2024
Courtesy of Vienna-based designer Manuel Radde and Viennese creative agency LWZ, independent football print magazine ballesterer is not only a remarkable publication dedicated to the love of the game – made in response to the poor coverage of the sport in Vienna – but a sensational typographic playground.
Opting for Colophon’s Archive Pro, and A2-TYPE’s Grot10, alongside Florian Fecher’s Lektorat front and centre as the magazine’s masthead, the diversity of typefaces across the magazine reflects both the variety of topics covered across the now 24-year-old magazine, including culture, economics and politics, and the breadth of character on and off the pitch.
Since its rebrand in 2015, this has continued to be the case, with recent issues ever expanding on this theme. In March 2024, ballesterer turned east towards Istanbul for the subject of issue #186, where they introduced NaN Tresor as their feature typeface, bringing a warmth to the editorial design through its striking swashes and perfectly imperfect construction.
