On Sunday, 25th of August, our favorite Berlin glasses brand and client Lunettes has its summer sale and we made some flyers and posters for them.

Browse a huge selection of vintage frames, sunglasses and Lunettes Kollektion sample pieces at discounts of up to 80%.

Sunday, 25th of August
Torstr. 172, Berlin-Mitte, 11-19h
www.lunettes-selection.de

Maybe you’ve already seen it on Facebook, in stores like Motto or Do you read me or you even have been to the release party at Studio Chérie last week: the fifth issue of Œ Magazine is out now and once more we were responsible for the concept, art direction and production.
With the motto »Bright Young Hopefuls«, Œ#5 brings you another season of inspiring editorials interpreting the evolving fashion landscape of Germany. As usual, the production was a lot of fun - this time we used 17 different paper qualities and experimented with printing our illustrations in Pantone special colours on Mohawk’s amazing day-glo Britehue paper. So come on, get your copy here, it’s worth it!

Right now we are working on an extended online platform for Œ, so soon Œ will bring you even more details and background stories about the German fashion scene. We’ll keep you posted…

First photo below: Lisa & Lillian Stutz/Freiseindesign

On the occasion of Lette Verein‘s graduation exhibit »EPILOG« we are taking part in a panel discussion this Wednesday. Together with our team from Œ Magazine we will talk about how to work across disciplines like photography, fashion and graphic design.

Everybody is welcome to drop by for the exhibition’s finissage at Industriehalle / Schindler Campus on 12th of June – the talk will start at 5 p.m.

Images: Jannis Hell

We love you too.

Thank you for the wonderful show at Volksbühne in Berlin yesterday night … all we are saying is give peace a chance!

Images top to bottom:
– 1969, Yoko Ono  | Clay Perry
– Yoko Ono und John Lennon – Bed-In for Peace, 1969. Hilton Hotel, Amsterdam, 25.-31. März 1969
– Unknown
– Yoko Ono, thewire.co.uk
– War is over | imago

When American publishing house Condé Nast opens its archives in New York, Paris, London and Milan for the first time you can be sure to see some of the world’s finest fashion photography! To be honest we even expected a more daring selection but nevertheless some real treasures could be found. Especially seeing the classic compositions of photography’s old masters such as Edward Steichen was truly amazing. In many images you see that fashion photography reflects the respective era, society and zeitgeist and does not just tell us about timeless beauty, as the exhibition’s title might suggest.

What started out already in 1966 as a competition for the best posters in the GDR has become a dear recurring event: The exhibition »Die 100 besten Plakate des Jahres« (100 Best Posters of the Year) is once more on display at Kulturforum at Potsdamer Platz. 53 posters from Germany, 45 from Switzerland and 2 from Austria were awarded for their outstanding design, whereof 23 of the prize-winning entries are posters designed by students.
We were great fans of the posters by the following designers: Paula Troxler for a Moby Dick theater play, Valeria Gordeew for a masked ball at Udk Berlin, Markwald & Neusitzer for an exhibition of islandic artist erró, Björn-Christian Schiebe for the Museum of Natural Sciences.
Have a look at all winning posters here or check other dates of the travelling exhibition.

We went out to see Sarah Illenbergers exhibition at voo store in Kreuzberg. Some of the exhibits apparently were done just at the same day but a lot of her work was familiar. Nevertheless it was nice to see some of the originals and the beetroot diamonds, the pomegranate and the blonde apple just made us smile!

After this year’s honeysuckle, the Pantone Color Institute has named »Tangerine Tango«, a radiant reddish orange, as the colour of the year 2012. As the emotional state and economic climate worldwide still are somewhat depressed, the colour is supposed to ”provide the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward”, as the Institute explains its decision. So let’s see where we come across this vibrant colour during the next months!
Pantone’s last years’ choices were Honeysuckle, Turquoise, Mimosa and Blue Iris.

As sad as this sounds, as beautiful is the work of artist Nick Georgiou. And here‘s what he says about it: “My art is inspired by the death of the printed word. Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century. As a society we’re shifting away from print consumption and heading straight towards full digital lives. My sculptures are products of their environment —both literally and figuratively. As often as I can, I use local newspapers to add authenticity, and the form the sculpture takes is a reflection of the personal connection I feel to that particular city.”

We´re just back from the press proof of the second issue of Œ magazine. It´s printed at printing house Heenemann and we´re very satisfied with what we saw. We can´t wait until it returns from the bookbinder! The images show contributions by Yves Borgwardt, Rachel de Joode, Jette Stolte and Jan Mielke,  for a copy and a list of all contributors check out www.oe-magazine.de. The issue will be out on November 18th.

A little potpourri of things we saw last week during Fashion Week in Berlin. We complemented Reality Studio’s presentation on Alte Schönhauser Straße with a closer look at the collection in Arne Eberle’s Collect Showroom. After some more stops we congratulated Alfhild Sarah Külper on her grand graduation at Central Saint Martins, which made Lady Gaga instantly order one of her 3D-dresses. On Saturday our Fashion Week excursion was rounded off with a Œ Magazine get-together at ninety-five gallery on Torstraße.
As lovers of printed matter we like to take along the publications accompanying Fashion Week, first of all DERZEIT fashion week Berlin daily.

It somehow did not really fit the season but was wonderful nevertheless: Timber Timbre were playing in Berlin yesterday and we got lost in spooky bluesy sounds and Taylor Kirk’s Gothic-Elvis voice.

Panther Club is an independant publishing platform from London that produces limited print editions in collaboration with international artists and illustrators. Originally, they started out as a blog covering the field of Graphic Arts and illustration. The blog is a fun source for inspiration where you’ll find a mixture of works by new talents as well as interesting material from past decades.

1. Panther Clubs second print
series »Dionysus, The Ecstasy & Madness«
2+3. Collages by Virginia Echeverria

Together with more than 30 photographers, stylists, hair & make-up artists and models we were part of a fun project during the last weeks. We took care of the visual concept and layout of »Œ Magazine«, which is a new fashion magazine that focuses on Berlin’s fashion scene. The magazine is non-commercial and is in parts financed by crowdfunding. Check out the project’s campaign video here on WeFund and if you like it, feel free to support a good cause!

Contributing photographers: Amos Fricke, Dirk Merten, Lars Borges, Christoph Schemel, Andreas Lux, Jochen Arndt, Rachel de Joode, Clément Martz

Contributing stylists: Christian Stemmler, Christof Post, Rainer Metz, Åsa Lundström, Brenda Barr, Antje Gohlke, MAVEN, Julian Zigerli

Contributing hair & make-up artists: Alexander Soltermann, Henriette Höft, Manuela Kopp, Miriam Jochims

Now I´m on that track of science and science illustration I have to admit that nature itself just tops the attempts of picturing the same. In the Nikon International Small World Competition you can admire the beauty of nature seen by photographers through the light microscope. Inspiring and somehow quite modern.

www.nikonsmallworld.com
1. Cotton fibers stained with berberine sulphate and color depth shaded (200x) (Dr. Lloyd Donaldson)
2. Olivine inclusions in gabbro (magmatic rock) (5x) (Dr. Bernardo Cesare)
3.  Algae and diatoms (10x) (Dr. Arlene Wechezak)
4. Discus fish scales (20x) (Dr. Havi Sarfaty)

What looks like recent record covers are actually images from the International Science Visualization Challenge 2010 by Science magazine. Here abstract scientific facts or complex actions inside an organism develop an aesthetic dimension.

1. A Genome-Wide Gene Function Association Network for the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana | Insuk Lee
2. Human Immunodeficiency Virus 3D | Ivan Konstantinov
3. Proposed Structure of Yeast Mitotic Spindle | Russell Taylor

Funny electricity, serially numbered doors and beautiful floors: we´ll miss all that when c/o Fotogalerie has to move out of Postfuhramt and the place gets transformed into another shopping mall! Until the 27th of March you have the chance to see their last exhibition there, a Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective.

Thank you everyone for spending a cosy sunday afternoon with us!

We just discovered the vietnamese artist Diem Chau and became huge fans of her carved crayon figures and porcellain plates with silk thread hair. As she puts it it´s all about The pleasure of tiny things!

In search of inspiration in the field of production we paid a visit to Stein + Lehmann bookbindery. Mr. Stein himself took us on a really interesting tour through the manufactory and showed us the possibilities of modern bookbinding.