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Jun.-Prof. Stefanie Schwarz (far left) with the designers of the port (from left to right) Eli Schories, Jenny Nerlich and Emelie Brockhaus.
Jun.-Prof. Stefanie Schwarz (far left) with the designers of the port (from left to right) Eli Schories, Jenny Nerlich and Emelie Brockhaus.
Published: 12 August 2021

Professorship of Typography and Type Design releases two new publications

»Port Magazine« and »Type & Object« - No less than two publications from the degree programme Visual Communication have been designed in the summer semester 2021 and ceremoniously published as part of a joint release during summaery2021.

»Layers« as the starting point for this year's »Port«

The »Port Magazine« - the cross-faculty, annually published visual showcase of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - has now been published for the 19th time. This year, the design of the issue is based on the concept »layer upon layer and level upon level« developed by Eli Schories, Emelie Brockhaus and Jenny Nerlich, supervised by artistic associate Ricarda Löser. The team of designers describes their design approach: »›Layers‹ was the starting point we turned to in experimental approaches in the development of this Port issue. It was all about multiple angles in looking at a flat medium as a multi-dimensional arrangement. The aim was to pick up the selected multifaceted projects through our design with layout programmes and to create connections so that they transformed into a common medium. Layer by layer, we loosened layer upon layer and awakened each page into a multi-dimensional play of ›layers‹.«

Among the works presented in the magazine are, for example, the art project »walter ≠ bauhaus« by Larissa Barth, the animated short film »Three is a party« by Lynn Haag, a campaign against sexual harassment »#whoatemytofu« by Yuntong Sun and the textile group project »Tuft - Aleatorik als Gestaltungsprinzip« (Tuft - Aleatorics as a Design Principle) by Anna Luise Pfau, Carla Baumeister, Iva Coskun, Antonia Dieti, Julia Huhnholz, Luise Klett and Felix Sittner. The display typeface used in the magazine is also a product of the degree programme: the font »Lilja Grotesk« was created as part of Luis Rutz's master's thesis, which he successfully completed this spring.

The »Port Magazin« - the inter-faculty, annually published visual showcase of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - has now been published for the 19th time.
The »Port Magazin« - the inter-faculty, annually published visual showcase of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - has now been published for the 19th time.
The design of the issue this year is based on the concept »layer upon layer and level upon level«.
The design of the issue this year is based on the concept »layer upon layer and level upon level«.

Everyday objects as inspiration and starting point for typeface designs

The second publication »Type & Object«, published just in time for summaery2021, provides insights into the teaching of the Professorship of Typography and Type Design under the direction of Jun.-Prof. Stefanie Schwarz. As part of a project in the summer semester 2020, the students first dealt with the beginnings of our Latin characters, whose forms are shaped by the everyday worlds and tools of the respective eras. This led to the question of what this can mean in the present. In the further course of the semester, the students had analysed various everyday objects and used them for experiments in order to generate forms and a systematic for the further design process. This resulted in font designs and (typo-)graphic elements that were then used in various media such as brochures and posters.

Paper clip, cutter, coffee machine, handbag, marble and Lego brick are just a few examples of the objects that served as inspiration and starting point for the type designs. In the end, these were not only reflected in the form, but even in the names of the typefaces and thus also refer to their starting point on this level: Buerokraft, Sneiden, Koffeboi, Beggy Betch, Maerbel and Einstein, for example, are the names of the fonts that emerged from the objects already mentioned.

This exciting and worth seeing range of results was compiled in the following two semesters by Henry Boebst, Emelie Brockhaus, Elfi Handina Murandu and Vivien Sorrentino and processed into a comprehensive book. The special cover and the ring binding refer thematically to folder structures and scrapbooks and artfully hold together this archive turned into a book.

The publication »Type & Object« provides insights into the teaching of the Professorship of Typography and Type Design; Photo: Dirk Wachowiak
The publication »Type & Object« provides insights into the teaching of the Professorship of Typography and Type Design; Photo: Dirk Wachowiak
Henry Boebst, Emelie Brockhaus, Elfi Handina Murandu and Vivien Sorrentino processed the exciting and remarkable range of results into a book; Photo: Masihne Rasuli
Henry Boebst, Emelie Brockhaus, Elfi Handina Murandu and Vivien Sorrentino processed the exciting and remarkable range of results into a book; Photo: Masihne Rasuli

With the support of staff member Jörg von Stuckrad, the two design teams have reproduced their publications with great dedication in the printing workshop of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. They are available through Lucia Verlag, a student initiative of the Bauhaus University.

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If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stefanie Schwarz, assistant professor for typography and type design, by e-mail to stefanie.schwarz[at]uni-weimar.de.

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