T2B magazine, vol. 01, “Southern Avant-Garde”
Graffiti doesn’t just live on walls anymore, it lives in feeds. Consumed in seconds, from top to bottom. The title goes beyond a slang term, it reflects how we see and scroll through (sub)culture today: fast, fleeting, and often replaceable.
The first issue of TOP2BOTTOM (T2B) dives 144 pages deep into the Swabian avant-garde stretching from Stuttgart to Lake Constance. What started as an open call for submissions turned into a collective snapshot of the region’s scene, blending community-sent photos with personal field documentation collected over the past two years. It’s an analog response to digital noise, a way to slow things down and document subcultural fragments that might be gone tomorrow. Featuring key actors of the southern scene presented in textual contributions and showcased as four special chapters.
For the typography, I used Aether by DDOTT and Neue Montreal by Pangram Pangram. The magazine has 144 pages measuring 170×240 mm and comes with a thread binding. It was printed in Stuttgart in a limited edition of 100 copies – which sold out within 24 hours. Published via T2B Press.
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