Jimmy Schmid

Hey guys, we’re back! It’s 🌧 outside and it’s cozy on the 🛋. Perfect ⏰ for you to get some on-🖥 distraction from too much 🖥 time. Instagram Live is a thing, there are lectures and talks everywhere, pretty much all the time! We thought we wanna point you out to two of those, because they’re linked with our beloved and dearly missed HKB @hkb_bfh .
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1️⃣ Ariane Spanier (@arianespanier), who was supposed to give a talk in our @typoclub on March 25, is speaking tonight (28.4.2020) in the context of “KTTV” on the channel of @klassethomas . Tune in at ⏱ 18:00 CET.

2️⃣ HKB Alumni and type design powerhouse @grillitype are speaking tomorrow (29.4.2020) evening in the context of “Creatives at Home” on the chanel of @folchstudio . Tune in at ⏱ 19:00 CET.

#arianespanier #arianespanierdesign #grillitype #folchstudio #klassethomas #typedesign #instagramlive #imissreality

«Can you make it smaller/bigger? Can you make it more colorful? Can you make it pop?» Designing a logo for a client can be a real pain in the 🍑. But here comes the fun 🙌 news: there is a contest to create a bad logo 👁️‍🗨️. Do you have what it takes to change the world? Now’s your chance! Strap on your mouse 🖱️ and warm up your shortcutters — this could get graphic. Throw away your inhibitions, forget what you learned in art school — it’s time to design from the dark millennial heart you were coddled to believe in. It’s logo time!
Check out link in Bio.

#canyoumakeitbigger #logo #graphicdesign #howlocanyourlogo

This is just in and it doesn’t really go well with that amazing ☀️☀️☀️ outside (but of course it goes well with beeing quarantined inside): @letterformarchive in San Francisco has opened their online archive, which collects — besides a lot of other type-related printed matter such as hundreds of midcentury type specimen — the entirety of the legendary Emigre @emigrefonts magazine. Browse all their issues from front to back, including some favorites like the 1994 issue by the infamous Sheffield-based @thedesignersrepublic or the 2001 issue by Amsterdam-based all-time heroes @jetset_experimental, looking fresh as always!
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link
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#emigremagazine #letterforms #thedesignersrepublic #experimentaljetset #sunnyoutside

The @bravoarchiv team asked themselves how they could make a small contribution to brighten up these rather dark times. Therefore they made their BRAVO issues available for free ✨. And to make sure that every generation gets something out of it, there is one issue from each year. From 1956 to 1994 you can download the first issue free of charge. Furthermore there is a BRAVO star cut 🕺. So once again dig out the scissors ✂️ and glue sticks and start tinkering!
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link.
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#popculture #liebesexzärtlichkeit #startschnitt #heavypetting #rickastely #aha #kylieminogue

Not only in times of a crises 🦠 are our lives are dominated by an ever growing consumption of 📰 news media, both fake and real and everything in ➰ between. Roughly 25 years ago, German filmmaker 🎥 Harun Farocki sat down with Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist Vilém Flusser (👓 & 🕶) to discuss the front page of Germany’s leading tabloid newspaper “Bild”. The resulting 13 minutes film documenbts a fascinating conversation about the power of media, the relationship between image and text and therefore about graphic design in general.
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link
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#documentary #bildzeitung #schriftundbild #boulevard

Ok, so we all spend the majority of our ⏱ inside apartments or — if you’re lucky — houses, surrounded by things. This might as well be the best moment to dive into the book *Arranging Things — A Rethoric of Object Placement*, simply and beautifully written by Leonard Koren alongside equally charming paintings by Nathalie du Pasquier. *Arranging Things* considers the placement of objects in three-dimensional composition as a form of rhetoric: persuasive communication. Koren is the publisher of the now infamous magazine *W💧E💧T — The Magazine of Gourmet 🛀 Bathing* as well as the author of several books. Nathalie du Pasquier is a designer, sculptor and painter as well as one of the founding members of the Memphis movement. Should you not be familiar with her work, then A) shame on you and B) now is the time to catch up!
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the PDF
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#nathaliedupasquier #memphis #arrangingthings

“I would surprise myself with not knowing whether I was holding an 🍊 or a 🍋, a 🍅 or an 🍎. Usually, I could sort them out by sniffing or squeezing.”
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In his fascinating piece “A Man of Letters” for The New Yorker, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks @oliversacksfdn writes about patients who lost the ability to read, while still being able to write.
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link
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#oliversacks #oliversacksquotes #neurology #themanwhomistookhiswifeforahat

How political was the 🟡🔺🟦?
How 🟡🔺🟦 is Politics?
And what has this all got to do with your iPhone™?
Excellent short lecture by Mark Wigley on “The Bauhaus Virus”.
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link.
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#bauhaus #markwigley #arewehuman #archeologyofdesign

Why not skip ◎ Tatort ◉ tonight and watch “Umbruch” by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf instead? The year is 1985, and Akeret AG in Bassersdorf, a printer and publisher of a small local 📰, exchanges its Lintotype department with cutting-edge photo-typesetting machinery, much to the chagrin of its employees. Shortly after, Ruppert Murdoch fires more than 5000 printers and typesetters in London 🇬🇧 because they were on strike ✊ against the introduction of the new typesetting and printing technology. “Umbruch” is a unique document, and with 🎥 by Pio Corradi and 🎵 by @brunospoerri, what’s more to ask?
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Head over to gestaltung.be for the link.
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#documentary #piocorradi #brunospoerri #linotype #linotypesetting #phototypesetting

Herb Lubalin @herblubalin (1918–1981) was one of the most prolific 🇺🇸 American designers from the 20th century and many of his typefaces and logos are still widely in use today. After his death, he donated his vast collection of works of post-war graphic design to the Cooper Union in NY who transformed it into a generous and productive archive, the @lubalincenter. At this center you'll find, amongst many other things, huge file cabinets, and they let you open the Sandberg drawer, and then next the Vignelli drawer, etc. Of course we can't go to NY right now, but we can browse their Flickr (yes!) albums of type specimens and other gems.
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Check out @ gestaltung.be (link in Bio)
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#willemsandberg #massimovignelli #herblubalin #typespecimen #flickr

@studio_lennartsendebruijn and @overdeschreef created a campagne, where you cand submit and download posters to show some love to our lifesavers 🦠 🏥 and to inspire the 🏠-stayers. Over 100 submissions from 21 different countries 📌 in just 4 days! Think you can do an even better job 🖥️ ? Send in your designs and get some exposure! @staysanestaysafe
#staystanestaysafe

BUS-Wartehäuschen bei Nacht am Bahnhof. #BUS #letters #nacht #säulen #wartehaus #condensed #buchstaben #red #öffentlicherverkehr #bus —
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55. Solothurner Filmtage, Informationsstelen bei Nacht. #informationsstele #leuchtstele #nacht #solothurn #filmtage #ci #licht —
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#db #piktogramme #windows #hitze #zug #klimaanlage #deutschebahn #meltingmesoftly #changetheworld —

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#sign #leuchten #signaletik #leuchtbeschriftung #fahnen #stelen #tankstelle #nebel #lichtschein #dasganzeprogramm —

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#wcdamen #typography #wc #damen #toilette #spazionieren #sign 😬 —

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#expressionism or #impressionism 🤔 #peinigung #reinigung #hochschule #artschool #kunsthochschule #raumbeschriftung #raumnummer #folierung #ausdruck #ästhetik #vandalismus #expressionismus oder #impressionismus ?
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#arrow #pfeil #markierung #strasse #street #parkingarea #reserved #polizei —

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#neon #broken #sign #central #trainstation #zweisprachig #bahnhof #oneline #arrow #dreckig #dirty #pfeil —

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CAS Signaletik an der Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB

#pictograms #piktogram #shadows #schatten #licht #light #schattenspiel #schaufenster #folienbeschriftung #indirekt
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#bus #street #stone #letters #steine #beschriftung —

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#Grenzübergang #schweiz #italien #schweiz-italien #dogana #zoll #arogno #lugano #nacht #night 👮🏻‍♀️
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