silent green concert posters, September 2024

Located in Berlin-Wedding, silent green Kulturquartier is an event venue and independent project housed in the historic premises of a former crematorium. Form und Konzept is a direct neighbor and responsible for much of their visual communication. For the posters advertising concerts in September 2024, the design studio of Beata Niedhart and Oliver Spieker worked with PicNic.

The inclined serif with its characteristic wobbly contours was designed by Mariel Nils and jointly released by NoFoundry and Velvetyne in 2022 under the CUTE license. PicNic comes with a built-in bouncing baseline which can be intensified by activating the ligatures. In some of the posters, Form und Konzept further cranked up the bounciness by manually shifting the baseline for selected glyphs.

The organic letterforms are interlaced with such from the more conventional Myriad and Pragmatica. The latter – a variant of Helvetica with shorter descenders – is part of silent green’s house style.