“To Convert a Place Into a State of Mind” — Gordon Matta-Clark Karsten Schmitz— Stiftung Federkiel
The aim of the Federkiel Foundation is to create spaces for architecture, design, and art and to stimulate encounters within them. Like a common thread, open communi cation is an important aspect to build bridges between these areas and to promote the active co-creation of innovative artistic processes in the networks. Artists are the most important partners in this process.
The curatorial approach of the Stiftung Federkiel (Federkiel Foundation) lies in inviting artists to interpret and actively shape spaces.
Based on long grown art friendships, fruitful processes develop with architects, designers, and artists. From the diverse experiences that have arisen in the network during the development of the Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig into a creative quarter, the foundation today pursues a special aesthetic concept: a fine, quite strict formal lan guage; with partly Japanese echoes.
This concept becomes visible in the following space-related works:
the end of the world
This installation, inspired by traditional tea rooms, was jointly developed by the design ers Sami Ayadi and Jan Heinzelmann (OHA—Office Heinzelmann Ayadi) in consulta tion with the artist Peter Granser.
Since last fall, the Stiftung Federkiel, in cooperation with artist and tea enthusiast Peter Granser, has been showing this special, sensual room installation. A combina tion of contemporary art with a tea ceremony conducted by the artist himself by appointment. Inspired by his travels to Japan and Taiwan, Peter Granser deals with unusual exhibition formats on essential themes such as time, emptiness, nature, and consciousness. The experience of art is combined with the enjoyment of Japanese or Taiwanese tea.
Slender iron bars, light gauze, and reduced furniture create an overall image that invites the visitor to a guided tea ceremony. As a visually and haptically strong archi tecture by OHA, the pavilion combines with the displayed art and the tea ceremony to form a unity. While the classic tea house is entered via a garden path, where one moves around the actual space, guided in interstices, mentally and physically, away from everyday life, into another world.
The simple seating furniture inside the cube, as well as the traditional utensils for preparing tea, were specially made. For example, the well-known Austrian ceramics artist Matthias Kaiser made special bowls and vessels by hand. Japanese metal artisan
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Yumi Nakamura designed the ritual copperware. The interior walls in the cube display large format photographs taken by Peter Granser in Hokkaido in the area that, in the language of the indigenous Ainu, denotes “the end of the world.” Above the ominously rising steam at the foot of the volcano, the visitor is embedded beyond the tea experi ence into an environment that oscillates between an aesthetic natural spectacle and the unbridled elemental force of nature.
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→ The end of the world a tea house installation by Peter Granser and Office Heinzelmann Ayadi, 2021. Idea / photography: Peter Granser. Concept, design, and implementation: Office Heinzelmann Ayadi. Ceramic: Matthias Kaiser. Copperware: Yumi Nakamura. Photo: © Peter Granser.
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Nadine Vicentini / bayern design, Nuremberg (DE), bayern-design.de Nadine Vicentini joined bayern design as managing director in April 2021. She studied Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies at the universities of Kassel, Germany, and Roskilde, Denmark, and went on to become marketing manager, account director, and team leader at renowned design and architectural firms. In 2014, she began freelancing in brand development and design strategy.
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Rafael Bernardo, Munich (DE), rafael-bernardo.com
Rafael Bernardo is a German-Brazilian designer, consultant, creative activist, and author. He has designed fonts, infographics, corporate designs, posters, magazines, books, websites, apps, campaigns, murals, and installations. Besides speaking on stage and contributing to conferences, Bernardo has taught typography at universities, was chairman of Typog raphische Gesellschaft München, and is regularly involved in collaborative projects.
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Stefan Bogner, Munich (DE), stefanbogner.com, curves-magazin.com
Stefan Bogner, born in Munich in 1968, studied Industrial Design and has been working in the field of design since 1994. Since then, he has won more than 50 international design awards. In 2011, he founded the special interest magazine Curves which is published worldwide in two languages. His design studio is focused on automotive subjects, sports, travel, food, and hospitality.
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Ayzit Bostan, Munich (DE), ayzitbostan.com
Ayzit Bostan has lived in Munich since 1972 and works there as a designer and artist. She also teaches as a professor of design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. After training as a taylor and studying to become a pattern designer, she set up her own fashion label in 1995. Located at the interface between design and art, Bostan presents her collections not on catwalks but as installations and performances.
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Stefan Braun, Munich (DE), braunphotography.de The photographer Stefan Braun lives in Munich and in his second home Monopoli, Italy. He picks up his camera primarily for culinary subjects. He has a studio kitchen, but he particularly enjoys traveling for reportage. His travels have resulted in, among others, the street food cook book Eat on the Street (ZS 2016) and, together with tea merchant Christian Beck, Tea Trip (Slanted Publishers, 2020).
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Bureau Borsche, Munich (DE), bureauborsche.com
Bureau Borsche is a global design studio, rooted in editorial design. Their work is powered by the continuous commitment to contemporary art and culture, design, and new technologies. With their close-knit international team, they work with clients from cultural estab lishments, luxury fashion houses, etc.
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Markus Burke, Munich (DE), markusburke.de
Markus was born in 1978 in a small town south of
Munich. He studied Photog raphy at the Munich Univer sity of Applied Science and graduated in 2007. Since then he works as a freelance photographer in the fields of portrait, fashion, and accessories photography for Magazines like Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Vogue, etc. and Brands like Porsche Design, Hugo Boss, etc.. He lives in Munich and works all over the world.
as contemporary designs— favorite pieces, that will bring pleasure for genera tions. They are produced in small, traditional crafts businesses located primarily in the Munich area but also in Italy and Portugal.
→ P 13 Complex Pleasures, Nuremberg (DE), complexpleasures.com
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büro bungalow, Würzburg (DE), buerobungalow.de büro bungalow is a multidisciplinary studio for brand ing, creative content, and design. From Würzburg and Berlin, the creatives develop holistic design solutions for anyone who is into progres sive aesthetics. The bunga low is a metaphor for the way they work: Down-to-earth and with a flat hierarchy that allows every member equality. Ideas and creativity are the only bosses.
→ P 12 C100 Studio, Munich (DE), c100studio.com C100 Studio is a creative practice specialized in visual identities, image cre ation, and design across all platforms for international institutions in culture, fashion, sports, and the arts. Founded in 2003 by Christian Hundertmark, it aims to deliver inventive and precise visual solutions achieving new levels for both clients and the studio. C100 Studio is consequently doing a balance act be tween commercial and art projects, hence it is not easy to pigeonhole the studio.
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ClassiCon, Munich (DE), classicon.com ClassiCon stands for “Classic Contemporary Design.” The ownermanaged company sells 20th-century classics and design icons, as well
Complex Pleasures is a visual studio run by Philipp Dittmar and Sabrina Zeltner. They are in love with the classic disciplines of graphic design and any sort of printing techniques. But they particularly lost their hearts to all kinds of music related topics like album artworks, music videos e. g. They also perform live as audiovisual electronic act Red On + Subrihanna.
→ P 14 / 15 Daily Dialogue, Munich (DE), dailydialogue.cc
Founded in 2015 by Maximilian Schachtner as a creative consultancy Malin Schoenberg and Philipp Polder joined as partners later on. The studio mostly works on publica tions, websites and identi ties for clients in fashion, architecture, and the cultural sector—preferably in long term partnerships that share the studio’s values of social responsibility, diversity, and environmental concerns.
→ P 148 / 149 DB Museum, Nuremberg, (DE), dbmuseum.de
The DB Museum, estab lished in 1882, is the oldest railway museum in the world. Its core is a perma nent exhibition covering 200 years of railway history with all its relationships to soci ety, business, culture, and technology. Other parts are the hands-on area Kibala for children, the Modellarium with the large model railway, and a spacious outdoor area with attractions for the whole family.
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Volker Derlath, Munich (DE), volker-derlath.de
Volker Derlath was born in 1960 and has been living in Munich as a freelance photographer since 1982. In line with his personal motto “think global, take pictures in the village of a million,” his candid photographs are taken in Munich and envi rons. Apart from conducting long-term photography projects, where the comic and the tragic are often entwined, his commissioned work includes portraits, illustrations, theater photography, and event documentation.
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Designbuero Josef Grillmeier, Munich (DE), josefgrillmeier.de
“Freedom lies in the system.” J. Grillmeier. Munichbased designer Josef Grillmeier creates innovative visual identities for global companies and cultural in stitutions. As an art director, he develops flexible systems that enable a variety of design possibilities. His Designbuero covers a broad range from consulting, corporate design, graphic design to signage.
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designgruppe koop, Marktoberdorf (DE), designgruppe-koop.de designgruppe koop wants to design transformation— with design as a method for fewer barriers, more diversity and real sustain ability. Andreas and Nadine Koop have been working with academies, juries, and advisory boards, pub licizing extensively, holding lectures, and organize workshops. The office that was founded in 1995, has received several international awards and concentrates on signage and scenography, identity, and communication.
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Designworks, A BMW Group Company, Munich (DE), bmwgroupdesignworks. com
Founded in 1972, Designworks is a global creative consultancy and the innovation studio for the BMW Group. With a focus on mobility and digital life, the teams in Munich, Los Angeles, and Shanghai work at the intersection of design and technology to unlock brand potential and drive sustain able business advancement for partners worldwide.
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Die Krieger des Lichts, Nuremberg (DE), dkdl.de
DKdL is a progressive design studio located in the heart of Nuremberg. They design large ecosystems for brands as well as small identities for organizations and institu tions. At the start of every project they use authentic stories as the base on which their visual expression is established. Through this process the solutions are characterized by a particular radicalism to prevailing norms.
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Die Neue Sammlung—
The Design Museum, Munich (DE), dnstdm.de
With over 120,000 items in its collection, Die Neue Sammlung is one of the largest major international museums for 20th and 21st century design and applied art. It is also one of the oldest design museums in the world. The international collection focuses on a period from 1900 to the immediate present. The museum is home to a wide range of items spread across over 20 collection fields.
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DIEZ OFFICE, Munich (DE), diezoffice.com
DIEZ OFFICE designs and develops products for everyday use, focusing in particular on the potential of the circular economy. Their practice is character ized by innovation through technical expertise, instinct, and a great passion for experimentation. Stefan Diez challenges himself and his team with blue skies thinking for every new project.
→ P 19 Philipp Dittmar, Nuremberg (DE), philippdittmar.com
Philipp Dittmar is a graphic designer and musician based in Nuremberg, influenced by DIY renders, analog printing processes, digital errors, and loud electric guitars. He runs the electronic(a) music label Verydeeprecords and currently teaches editorial design at TH Nuremberg. Together with Sabrina Zeltner, he founded Complex Pleasures—a studio for graphic design and other visual projects.
→ P 160 / 161 Faculty of Design— Würzburg University of Applied Sciences, Würzburg (DE), fg.fhws.de
The design education at Würzburg University of Applied Sciences is oriented to the requirements of modern communication design practice in which the disciplines are becoming increasingly interconnected. This involves more than just mastering design meth ods and tools, and goes beyond being able to layout, photograph, draw, animate, exhibit, and illustrate.
→ P 74 Martin Fengel, Munich (DE), martinfengel.com
Once a week, Martin takes a train across the alps to Italy, where he teaches photog raphy at the free University of Bolzano. Fengel loves to wonder why everything looks the way it does and how much it could or should be changed. The line between embarrassing and ingenious is a very interesting one.
→ P 20–23 Fundament Services, Augsburg (DE), fundamentservices.com Fundament Services is a multidisciplinary design and communication studio from Augsburg, Germany. Working on the interface between design, art, and culture, F.S. is combin ing timeless reduction and clarity with great attention to detail. Consistent and solution-oriented, F.S. holistic design concepts offer their clients longlasting and sustainable added value.
→ P 108–111 FUNK, Kinsau (DE), funkeyewear.com
FUNK’s frame-making workshop in Kinsau, is one of the last in Germany. This is where Dieter Funk and Sashee Schuster create eyewear from scratch. Their mission is to preserve the tradition of hand-crafting eyewear and to provide their customers with individual and perfectly fitting glasses.
→ P 56–59 Grafikmagazin, Munich (DE), grafikmagazin.de Grafikmagazin is a print magazine for everyone passionate about design. Published every two months, Grafikmagazin reports on graphic design, illustration, typography, and corporate design, on production techniques, editorial design, and information graphics. As a
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special interest magazine, it addresses professionals working in creative industries and every issue is packed with inspiring projects as well as lots of useful information.
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Tom Hegen, Augsburg (DE), tomhegen.com
Tom Hegen documents in aerial photography projects the traces we leave on the earth’s surface. He pro vides an overview of places where we extract, refine, and consume resources. Ultimately, he delivers insights into the complex relationship between man and nature. Often choosing abstract perspectives, he reads landscapes based on their significance within the global human impact on the earth.
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Herburg Weiland, Munich (DE), herburg-weiland.de Herburg Weiland is redefin ing communication through content-driven platforms and a strong focus on design. Herburg Weiland offers brand development, creative direction, and graphic design for a range of cultural and commercial clients, ever exploring the evolving media of our modern world.
→ P 76 / 77 Kevin Herrmann, Nuremberg (DE), k-herrmann.com
After a bachelor’s degree in Media Communications, Kevin Herrmann further studied Communication Design, where he focused on illustration and animation. In 2018, he traveled to Taiwan, where he studied one semester abroad. For his graduation project in 2020, he created The Silence Within, an animated short film. Since then, he has been working as a free lancer with clients like Wired Japan, Ted-Ed, or Peón.
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Hoffmann Metallgefässe, Nuremberg (DE), hoffmannmetallgefaesse.de Function combines with timeless beauty: In his Nuremberg studio, Berthold Hoffmann manufactures cast iron cooking utensils that delight with their minimalist design. The cast iron range includes pots, pans, and fryers, as well as teppanyaki grills and fondues. The solidity of the products allows them to be used for a lifetime and passed on from generation to generation.
→ P 102 Christian Höhn, Nuremberg (DE), christianhoehn.de
In 1993, Christian Höhn published his first volume of photographs. Since then he has published regu larly as well as implemented numerous individual and group exhibitions, both at home and abroad. In addition to freelance work and art photography projects, he and his team have been working on com missions worldwide, in the fields of architecture, portrait, and transport photography, as well as for national and international campaigns.
→ Inside cover, p 78 / 79 Gabriel Holzner, Winhöring (DE), createdbygabe.com
Gabe is a multidisciplinary graphic artist from the South of Germany. Working across a broad variety of canvases, Gabe’s artworks can be found everywhere, on city walls, products, paintings, and even on a basketball court. In addition to his collaborations with partners such as Adidas, Amnesty Intl., Nike, and Google, he also offers his range of print editions in his independent art shop.
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International Magic, Nuremberg (DE), intmagic.com
International Magic is an experience design studio led by Creative Directors Adam Rodgers and Stefan Endress, creating new modes of interaction and visual communication. Driven by ideas, art, and technology to form advanced systems that fuse aesthetic principles and high performance. International Magic believe in the power of entertaining and innovating for the next generation.
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Just Your Type, Munich (DE), justyourtype.de
Just Your Type is a Munich design studio, newly founded by Mona Franz and Sebastian Berbig. Together they specialize in type de sign and corporate design. Convinced that typefaces are the magic key to outstanding branding, they combine craft and vision to create visual identities of every color on the emotional spectrum. Mona teaches at Hochschule München (University of Applied Sciences), conducts workshops, and realizes type walks.
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Ramon Keimig, Würzburg (DE), ramonkeimig.de
Ramon Keimig has graduated in Communica tion Design in Würzburg, focusing on illustration and is currently studying Art at HfG Offenbach. His work is dedicated to the field of visual experimentation, self-sampling, and exploring the limits of the artist’s formal language. Ramon worked together with Else where, Blitz Klub, Hohe Luft, Nieves, Zeit Campus, Cold Cube Press, Die Orakel, and many more.
→ P 23 KMS TEAM, Munich (DE), kms-team.com
KMS TEAM is one of the largest owner-managed design and strategy agen cies in Germany with a focus on branding. Through the interaction of interdisciplinary teams from the fields of design and strategy, KMS TEAM creates smart, courageous, and powerful brand experiences. The brand becomes a playful tool for companies— for the brand perception and management.
→ P 33 Kochan & Partner, Munich (DE), kochan.de
Kochan & Partner makes brands stronger. Starting today. For tomorrow. With touching design. With advanced technology. With experiences that last. With a strategy that helps marketing and sales. And with enthusiasm. K & P is one of the most renowned branding agencies in Germany. As a regular Top15 nominee of the CD / CI ranking, the agency serves clients from all industries in branding projects.
→ P 34 KW N9UN, Augsburg (DE), kw-neun.de
KW N9UN is an awardwinning creative agency for brand strategy, brand design, and brand communication, based in Augsburg, Germany. They combine independent per spectives with experience, intuition, and high design competence. KW N9UN’s focus is on strategic visual design development and brand communication, helping clients to strengthen their image and gain more relevance in customer relationships.
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LEONHARD KURZ
Stiftung, Fürth (DE), kurz-world.com
KURZ is a worldwide leading company that produces decorative and functional coatings for automotive parts, cell phones, washing machines, packaging, books, textiles, labels, bank cards, and lots more. These coatings decorate products, label goods, protect surfaces, and prevent counterfeiting. Moreover, KURZ provides complete solutions that include project consul tancy plus machine and die technology.
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Thomas Mandl, Munich (DE), mandlmandl.eu, 1worldflag.com
Thomas Mandl is a photog rapher and activist based in Munich. His studies in Geography / Politics and his mind for social justice have shaped his work as a photographer and activist in the past years. He is aware of the power of images and symbols and has developed several social projects and cam paigns, reaching the desired people and institutions with huge project audiences and international impact.
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Martin et Karczinski, Munich (DE), martinetkarczinski.de
Martin et Karczinski is a ho listic company for strategy, design, and transformation founded in 2000 by Peter Martin and Daniel Karczinski. The owner-managed company employs about 100 experts at its offices in Munich and Zurich. With its unique “be.yond” method, Martin et Karczinski creates maximum impact for brands and organizations, position ing itself as a companion for “Conscious Growth.”
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Hofkunstanstalt, Munich (DE), mayersche-hofkunst.de
Founded in 1847, Franz Mayer of Munich remains an owner-managed company, specializing in the development and production of international projects, spanning traditional to avant-garde artworks, and techniques. They work to the highest quality stan dards when developing the innovative approaches demanded of expressing the artistic and architectonic visions unique to each project and artist.
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Anna McCarthy, Munich (DE), annamccarthy.de
Anna McCarthy is a free lance artist known for her interdisciplinary, critical, and often humorous approach. Her works have been exhibited internation ally and she has received numerous scholarships and prizes. She is repre sented by gallery Sperling.
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Robert Meinolf Börsting, Munich (DE), @benutzerobertflaeche
In his position as Design Director at KMS TEAM Robert Meinolf Börsting sees himself as a creative driver. Instead of pure formal aesthetics, he finds that design processes, inspiration, and systematic development are the means to achieving a result of outstanding quality. The result of his collaboration with a client is an interdis ciplinary and playful design that allows for visual variety.
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Melville Brand Design, Munich (DE), melvilledesign.de
Melville Brand Design in Munich is a branding agency run by passionate and expe rienced designers. Melville’s offer stands on two pillars:
The brand appearance and the brand’s storytelling— both are manifested on all relevant platforms. Melville’s clients range from global players like Adidas, Marc O’Polo, or Canon to mid-sized manufacturers and local small businesses. Melville is also the publisher of Makers Bible—A manifesto for quality, passion, and craftsmanship and the artists’ book series 100For10.
They create space, feature a great community, and stand for change and honest journalism.
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Nils Holger
Moormann Möbel, Aschau im Chiemgau (DE), moormann.de
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Messer Werk, Aschau im Chiemgau (DE), messer-werk.de
Luca Distler and Florian Pichler forge handmade knives of supreme quality for fishermen, hunters, chefs, collectors, and all Damascus steel enthusiasts. The craft ed Damascus steel knifes are characterized by their durability and their resistant, precise cutting edge.
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Moby Digg, Munich (DE), mobydigg.de
Moby Digg is a creative de sign studio rooted in tech nology. They create identity from existing culture, with high aesthetic stan dards and technical compe tence. Progressive brands and digital experiences with a foundation. They are interdisciplinary: Thinkers, designers, programmers— sometimes all in one, always under one roof. Their recipe for success: They combine strong aesthetics with technical know-how.
Simply produced furniture, you say? Not interesting. Moormann is searching for furniture creations based on a special idea. Some times absurd, sometimes brilliant, sometimes a detail, sometimes a revolution. Typically a minimalist formal language with a high level of expediency—but always with a subtle twinkle in the eye.
→ P 44 / 45 OFF OFFICE, Munich (DE), offoffice.eu
The Munich-based studio, led by Johannes von Gross and Markus Lingemann, creates visual identities and digital objects with a high demands on materiality and haptics, as well as communication concepts for clients in the fields of art, culture, and design. The awardwinning studio’s work is characterized by a high degree of conceptual grounding and a minimalist, detailoriented implementation.
→ P 46 / 47 Nolan Paparelli, Munich (DE), nolan-paparelli.ch
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MUCBOOK, Munich (DE), mucbook.de
Since 2013, MUCBOOK has been the first blogger magazine in Germany to combine print, design, and text. The result is a mix of refreshing new narrative forms from the blogosphere and high-quality journalistic research. MUCBOOK wants to improve the city, bring people together, move them forward, and network them.
Nolan Paparelli is a Swiss graphic and type designer. He graduated with a BA in Graphic Design at ECAL in 2015 and runs his own independent practice since 2017. While developing his personal work, he collaborated with the likes of Swiss Typefaces, Herburg Weiland, and Think Work Observe to name a few. In 2021, his typefaces Everett and Everett Mono have been published by TYPE. WELTKERN®.
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PARAT.cc, Munich (DE), parat.cc
PARAT.cc is a design studio specializing in brand development, communica tion, and digital products for clients across culture, politics, and business. Based on the publishing project Edition Taube, traditional print design coexists next to new strategies of digital commu nication: Being in constant dialog with design history is just as important to them as challenging dogmas in the face of digitalization.
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PHOCUS BRAND CONTACT, Nuremberg (DE), phocus-brand.de
Founded in Nuremberg in 1998. Since that time the creative agency has been dedicated to the multidi mensional design of brands and their analog and digital touchpoints. The agency has designed unique and powerful brand experiences worldwide that touch, inspire and transform for more than 60 clients in over 500 projects. With precision, diligence and a passion for detail.
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Relvãokellermann, Munich (DE), relvaokellermann.com
Founded in Munich in 2014, Relvãokellermann works in the field of industrial design, spatial design, and art direction. Some of their clients include Auerberg, bulthaup, COR, Holzrausch, Huawei, Samsung, Schön buch, and Stylepark. The office has received if Awards, the German Design Award, the idea award in Bronze, Stylepark Selected Awards, the Core77 Design Award, and the Kitchen Innovation Award.
→ P 39 Rose Pistola, Munich (DE), rosepistola.de
Rose Pistola is a creative office based in Munich. It serves clients from different sectors, like publishing houses, cultural institutions, and medium-sized compa nies. The team consisting of art directors, offers a wide range of services: conception, creative and art direction, design, typography, illustration, film, ani mation, and 3D. The office works in a very conceptual and content-driven manner.
→ P 75 Pia Salzer, Erlangen (DE), piasalzer.com
Pia Salzer is a feminist illus trator, artist, and designer who loves the everyday aesthetics of Frankonia. She illustrates for magazines, cultural institutions, and sustainable brands. As her personal highlight of 2021, Pia created and realized the drawing-empowerment workshop The beauty of everyday-drawing as part of the Gleich / Ungleich design festival in Nuremberg.
→ P 128–131 Porzellan Manufaktur
Nymphenburg, Munich (DE), nymphenburg.com
Nymphenburg is the last manufactory where every thing is made entirely by hand. In the manufactory of the Bavarian royal family the fine art of porcelain making has been cultivated since 1747. “Manu Factum” still means entirely made by hand using techniques that are passed on and preserved from generation to generation. The master workshops in Munich produce style-defining services, artifacts, and be spoke interior solutions that are ahead of their time.
RACING ATELIER is a creative company for applied object-design, playing with material combinations, paired with usage orientation.
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Prof. Gerwin Schmidt / Büro für visuelle
Gestaltung, Munich (DE), gerwin-schmidt.de Gerwin Schmidt was born in Munich in 1966. He studied Graphic Design at Kassel University from 1990 to 1992 and Visual Communication plus painting at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1992 to 1997. Since 1997, he runs his own design office in Munich. After guest teaching in Austria and Iceland he is teaching as a professor for Com munication Design at ABK Stuttgart since 2003. He was elected a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) in 2003.
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Schotten & Hansen, Peiting (DE), schotten-hansen.com Schotten & Hansen de velops and produces high quality, healthy, and renewable wood surfaces for the complete interior: floorboards and comple mentary products such as steps, doors, veneers. Individually produced by hand and in an almost limitless range of colors. Care products, developed in the in-house laboratory, and a comprehensive range of services ensure that the products enjoy a long life.
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Daniel Sommer, Munich (DE), danielsommer.eu
his work into the studio where he is able to combine studio lights and strobes to highlight movement and create a natural atmosphere.
→ P 138 / 139 spitzbart treppen, Munich (DE), spitzbart.de
This 3rd generation, familyrun shop of metal workers started bending steel back in the 1970s and still is based in Oberasbach near Nuremberg, Germany, today. Spitzbart Treppen and Heavy Metal Interior are the two labels of the stair way manufacturer. “Honest and untreated” surfaces, preferably made of heavy steel that are raw, rusty, and featuring a patina, have become their trademark.
→ P 176–179 Karsten Schmitz / Stiftung Federkiel, Munich (DE), federkiel.org
Karsten Schmitz is an urban developer and social entre preneur. In 2000, he founded the Stiftung Federkiel for contemporary art; Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich and has been a board member since then. From 2002–2014, he was the founding partner of the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, sustain able development of a creative cluster. He is the co-developer of the urban townhouse Luitpoldblock in Munich, co-founder of the inclusive Montessori school Monte Balan, and managing director of the inclusive gastro Balan Deli in Munich.
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STUDIOFAUBEL, Munich (DE), gregorfaubel.de
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RACING ATELIER, Oberammergau (DE), racing-atelier.com
Daniel Sommer photog rapher who has worked extensively in the portrait and commercial / advertis ing domain. While his early photography was mainly centered around subjects in the outdoors with natural light, he eventually moved
STUDIOFAUBEL from Munich creates puristic and functional products and furniture. The design is graphic, clearly defined and solutions-oriented. The work combines current industrial production with traditional craftsmanship. The products are developed
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Acknowledgement
Thanks a lot to the designers, photographers, illustrators, artisans, curators, and crafters—all people who love their region and are passionate about what they are doing.
A big thank you also to Gabriel Holzner (createdbygabe.com) for the illustration inside the cover!
Many thanks also to the authors of the issue Nadine Vicentini, Petra Wöhrmann, and Karsten Schmitz.
High five to Moritz Lorenz and Michael Schmidt for their input and recommendations.
This special issue would not have been possible without the support of bayern design. Thanks a lot to Nadine Vicentini and Kilian Steiner of bayern design for their amazing support!
This special issue is supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy. Thank you so much for making the magic happen.
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Slanted Publishers is an independent publishing and media house, founded in 2014 by Lars Harmsen and Julia Kahl, and is internationally active. They publish the award-winning print magazine Slanted, which twice a year focuses on international design and culture. The Slanted blog and social media have been publishing daily news and events from the international design scene and presenting inspiring portfolios from around the world for 18 years. In addition to the Slanted blog and magazine, Slanted Publishers initiates and creates projects such as the Yearbook of Type, tear-off calendars Typo darium and Photodarium, independent type foundry VolcanoType and other design related projects and publications. These can be found in the Slanted Shop alongside other extraordinary products by young design talents and established producers from all over the world. Slanted was born from great passion and has made a name for itself across the globe. Its design is vibrant and inspiring—its philosophy open-minded, tolerant, and curious.
192 192 slanted—bavaria imprint Disclaimer
servus / good bye
OK … Bavaria stands for: Men in Lederhosen and women in Dirndls (traditional dresses), beer, pork Schweinshaxen (knuckles), Knödel (dumplings), Brezeln and Weißwürste, Oktoberfest, FC Bayern Munich, BMW (75.000 employees), Audi, Allianz, Adidas, Siemens, Alps, Allgäu, Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Dachau, Altötting, Chiemsee, Starnberger See, and all the other lakes, Neuschwanstein Castle (logo template Disney), Kraus-Maffei Wegmann, Airbus and MTU (most German arms exports come from Bavaria), Deutsches Museum, Pinakotheken, Neue Sammlung, Münchner Kammerspiele, Bayrische Oper, Wagner-Festspiele, Karl Valentin, Gerhard Polt, Lothar Matthäus (“I hope we have a little bit lucky”) … Stop. In the case of Bavaria, the list of clichés can be extended indefinitely.
Until the 1950s, many still considered Bavaria to be an agricultural state—an image that even then stood for only one side of the Free State. In 1972, the Olympic Games in Munich presented the world with a civilian Federal Republic that had shed the dull gray of the post-war years and was openly looking to the future. The Weltstadt mit Herz (World City with Heart) was proclaimed. Though “The games must go on.”—Avery Brundage, then president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), declared at the funeral service for the eleven members of the Israeli team killed the day before …
With the help of bayern design, we tracked down designers, artists, photographers, illustrators, and crafters—all people who love their region (almost a third of the Bavarian population prefers to spend their vacations in their own state) and are passionate about what they do. Clearly, Bavaria is rich. Rich in creativity, diversity, and intelligence. Our research uncovered so many findings that this issue could easily have been many times more extensive. It’s a typically Bavarian dilemma we have to face: Immer etwas zu viel des Guten! (There’s always more good stuff than you can enjoy). And we think that’s really good! Because life is really good here. Servus!
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