𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 is an instant publication for Auftakt Festival that came into existence in just a few days during a writing workshop led by Lilian Peter in frosty December 2023 in Cologne. In this publication typographic conventions were challenged – by slanting regular and un-slanting italic to take the other’s place – resulting in an unusual type treatment where italic turns regular and regular turns italic.

The graduation show of Studio For Immediate Spaces, The Great Interior, went in search of “a new type of interior that includes rather than excludes; an interior which contains the whole landscape and our lives within.” In the same way, the translucent exhibition guide opens the division between inside and outside. Typographically, it makes use of skeleton letterforms that have no determined volume but can expand at will.

Keep your mind in the gutter (TM) 🌀

A book, among other things. They are results, or maybe stepping stones, of an experimental writing practice that revolves around the intuitive, the unknown and the non-permanent. Blurring the lines between writing and reading, thought and material, body and identity, they attempt to expand the meaning of text. Maybe, in this sense, writing can become a tender tool for knowledge production and internal reflection rather than a means for documentation.

All the words that are written here, have been used before. Two reverse soft covers holding poetry, short texts, a script and the essay The Rest Is Still Unwritten; On Becoming A Body Of Text, which uses skin as a metaphor for questioning the relationship between the meaning and expression, body and text. It reveals the author’s obsession with text and typographic details, while investigating the space between the words and their complicity to the creation of meaning in language.

A poster, cut and folded into a publication, holding various writings that were born by the writing group I want the thing that you had when you wrote that keeps writing itself — unmoored and adrift and alive. In a series of gatherings, supported by If I Can’t Dance, the group aims to provide an experimental space for collective explorations into writing as a performative practice distinguished by unstable boundaries between bodies: bodies of texts and bodies of writers and readers. Group members engaged with notions of the score, asemic writing, artificial intelligence, and intertextual weaving as lenses for world-building strategies.

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An invitation in the size of a vinyl cover, refined with relief varnish, for the unguarded label night at Rote Fabrik Zürich.

The soles of our feet are an intimate spot – grounding us while holding us. They are rarely public, covered by socks and tights and shoes. Here, fragile words are stored, born out of doubt, insecurity, vulnerability, frustration and anger, hidden away from peeking eyes, allowing to only be seen by those closest to us. Printed with anti-slip ink, the words carry the one who wears them without slipping away.

A publication about strange and uncertain times, hugged by a semi-transparent dust jacket that holds the clouds of debris together in the form of a book.

Do you believe in Life After Sandberg?

Sandberg—connecting people since 1995.

🤝 Hold my hand, I am looking for connection.

NACHGLÜHEN collects stories, images and documents about houses of grandmothers. The publication itself is printed on thin semi-transparent paper, fragile in its handling, in order visualize the tactility of the content.

A poster that shouts; BARS ARE CLOSED, BUT PUB IS OPEN, have a drink with us and make your publishing dreams come true. PUB is looking for new members. Designed in collaboration with TextEdit.

Following a 12pt grid the layout unfolds on the page in multiplicities, allowing for an individual treatment of text and its content. The Issue is an annual printed publication, self-published by the @sandbergdesigndepartment that contains essays written by 2nd year students.

The script The color BLUE in casual conversation with the OCEAN and the SKY is set in a talkshow, where the three guests speak about poetry, metaphors and the meaning of life. Being metaphors themselves, they question their origins, their names and their existence. The script is filled with pop culture references and uncommon connections, where in the end, one is left asking themselves »If I don’t have a name, do I even exist?«

A poster that is contemplating where it is going, why it is here and what all those feelings are… welcome to Sandberg 2020.