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  • dérive

    dérive N° 92/93, Urban Commons (Okt-Dez 2023). Zeitschrift…

  • Deborah Enzmann

    Emojisierung. Eine historische und semiotische Studie zu…

  • Nina Möntmann

    Decentring the Museum: Contemporary Art Institutions and…

  • Hans Ibelings

    Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History

  • Monique Wittig

    Das straighte Denken

  • Amber Husain

    Meat Love. An Ideology of the Flesh

  • Moritz Gleich, Christa Kamleithner (Hg.)

    Medium unter Medien. Architektur und die Produktion…

  • Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus &…

    Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil

  • Kuukuwa Manful, Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong…

    Building African Futures. 10 Manifestos for Transformative…

  • Fareed Armaly

    The (re)Orient

  • Valerio Calavetta, Peter Hoffmann

    Sortenrein Bauen - Methode, Material, Konstruktion

  • Umut Yıldırım (ed)

    War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments. Reflections from…

  • Chang Wen-Hsuan

    Xsport On Paper. Samplings of Publishing Practices from the…

  • Rich Pell

    This is not an Artifact. Selections from the Center of…

  • Armen Avanessian

    Flüchtigkeitsmanagement

  • Florian Strob, Karoline Lemke, Uli…

    Ludwig Hilberseimer: Die neue Stadt. Prinzipien der Planung

  • Jae Kyung Kim, Anna Schanowski (eds)

    How to Book in Berlin

  • Keith Tan Kay Hin, Nurul Alia Ahamad (…

    Kedah: A History In Drawings

  • Suffian Shahabuddin

    61X Appeal to Read Between the Sheets

  • Camelia Kusumo, Lee Sze-Ee

    Kaki Lima Stories.

  • Clarissa Lim Kye Lee (ed)

    Small Practices : In Conversation with Malaysian and…

  • Nazmi Anuar

    Background, Frame, Platform

  • Louis Rogers (Hg)

    Upper Lawn, Solar Pavilion. Alison & Peter Smithson

  • Bojana Kunst

    Das Leben der Kunst. Transversale Linien der Sorge

  • Jule Govrin

    Begehrenswert. Erotisches Kapital und Authentizität als Ware

  • Isabell Otto

    TikTok (Digitale Bildkulturen)

  • Eran Schaerf

    Gesammeltes Deutsch

  • El Croquis 222. David Chipperfield (2015 - 2023) Selected…

  • Tom Holert, Doreen Mende (Hg)

    Navigation Beyond Vision. e-flux journal

  • Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck…

    Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork…

  • Antonio Castore, Federico Dal Bo (eds.)

    Untying the Mother Tongue

  • Carsten Lisecki

    Carsten Lisecki. Urbane Handlungsspielräume

  • Elizabeth Duval

    Nach Trans. Sex, Gender und die Linke

  • Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

    Thirty-Three Monsters

  • Oliver Elser, Anna-Maria Mayerhofer,…

    Protestarchitektur. Barrikaden, Camps, raumgreifende…

  • Laura Gardner, Daphne Mohajer va…

    Radical Fashion Exercises. A Workbook of Modes and Methods

  • IDEA Magazine

    IDEA 403. Typeface design for the voice of the world: The…

  • Lorenzo De Chiffre, Benni Eder, Theresa…

    Hollein Calling. Architectural Dialogues

  • Masure, Anthony

    Manifestes 5. Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine…

  • Ahmed Abdullah

    A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra

  • Mike Laufenberg, Ben Trott (Hg)

    Queer Studies. Schlüsseltexte

  • Josef Albers (Autor), Heinz Liesbrock (…

    Josef Albers. Interaction of Color. Grundlegung einer…

  • Paperside Editorial Culture

    Bookshop Guide. Independent Publishing Culture Spots

  • Sven Lütticken

    Objections. Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1

  • Christoph Brunner, Grit Marti Lange,…

    Technopolitiken der Sorge

  • Jean-Louis Cohen

    Building a new New World. Amerikanizm in Russian…

  • Gerda Breuer

    HerStories in Graphic Design

  • Tanja C. Vollmer, Andres Lepik (Hg.)

    Das Kranke(n)haus. Wie Architektur heilen hilft

  • Marc Bonner

    Offene-Welt-Strukturen. Architektur, Stadt- und…

  • Matthew Beaumont

    The Walker. Die Stadt, die Moderne und ihre Fußgänger

  • Harald Kisiedu and George E. Lewis (Hg.)

    Composing While Black

  • Dynamische Akustische Forschung

    Walking in Cinematic Close-Ups

  • Alec Leach

    The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes

  • Eckhardt Ribbeck

    Stadtläufer. Reiseerinnerungen 1970 - 2010

  • Yves Dreier, Eik Frenzel (Hg.)

    Social Loft. Auf der Suche nach neuen Wohnformen / En quete…

  • Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Hg)

    Doors of Learning. Microcosms of a Future South Africa.…

  • Dorothee Richter

    Curating: Politics of Display, Politics of Site, Politics…

  • Ciarán Finlayson

    Perpetual Slavery. Ciarán Finlayson

  • Marie-France Rafael

    Raphaela Vogel. Outside Form

  • Irma Leinauer

    Magistrale der Moderne. Das Wohngebiet an der Karl-Marx-…

  • Moisés Puente (Hg)

    2G 89. BAST

  • Kenya Hara (Ed.)

    Cleaning

  • Graphicabulary - MAKERMAKER

    Closing Ceremony. Hilton Seoul 1983 - 2022

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    Drift. Art and Dark Matter

  • Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek

    After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free…

  • Claudia Kromrei

    Postmodern Non-Residential Berlin

  • Hanne Eide, Krisitian Wikborg Wiese,…

    Formafantasma: Oltre Terra. Why Wool Matters

  • Moises Puent (Ed.)

    Flores & Prats. Drawing without Erasing and Other Essays

  • Akwugo Emejulu

    Fugitive Feminism

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    Kathrin Böhm. Art on the Scale of Life

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    Sensing Earth. Cultural Quests across a Heated Globe

  • Bas Hendrikx (Ed.)

    Queer Exhibition Histories

  • Miguel A. López (Ed.)

    And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? Aesthetic…

  • Simon Reynolds

    Futuromania. Elektronische Träume von der Zukunft

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    Raum und Handlung. Raumtheorien des Städtischen

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    On Withdrawal

  • Carine Zaayman

    Anarchival Practices. The Clanwilliam Arts Project as Re-…

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    The Last Grand Tour. Contemporary Phenomena and Strategies…

  • dérive N° 91, Tech Urbanismus (Jul-Sept/2023). Zeitschrift…

  • Thomas Kissling (Hg.)

    Lucius Burckhardt. Anthologie Landschaft

  • Gary Tomlinson

    The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning

  • David Joselit

    Art's Properties

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    Singular Pasts. The "I" in Historiography

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    Treibgut

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    Forecast and Fantasy. Architecture without Border, 1960s -…

  • Anna Kostreva

    Seeing Fire - Seeing Meadows

  • Matthew Allen

    Flowcharting. From Abstractionism to Algorithmics in Art…

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    On Minimalism. Documenting a Musical Movement

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    Ein Bestiarium des Anthropozäns. Über hybride Mineralien,…

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    What We Do Is Secret. Contemporary Art and the Antinomies…

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    Future Book(s). Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing

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    Smooth City. Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective…

  • Malcom Ferdinand

    Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean World

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    Psychosomatik

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    A Culture of Building: Courtyard Houses in the Old City of…

  • Camille Henrot

    Camille Henrot. Milkyways

  • Anja Cronberg

    Vestoj No 11 On Everyday Life

  • Indigo

    Orient. Rewriting the Future

Berlin Issue

Most people know close to nothing about Berlin’s economy. The one thing everyone can agree on is the fact that the average wage of Berlin is significantly lower than any other cities in Germany, and that Berlin city government has suffered from deficit spending year after year. Truth be told, it was none other than reasonable living costs and rents that pushed Berlin to become the powerhouse of creativity. However, at this point, things are not as they used to be. Some argue that the surge of rent prices over the past few years will fundamentally change the city’s nature of cultural ecology.
Nevertheless, Berlin is still considered as one of the most desirable cities to move in for young creators. Berlin is more like a natural organic body; various forms of cultural events co-exist, and each of its districts reflects the daily life of immigrants from different parts of the world. An ever-increasing energy comes out of exhibition openings held by over 300 independent cultural organizations on a daily basis—this is not even counting events hosted by city-run museums and large art galleries. Street walls covered in posters—a process and a result of both cultural and economic activity—also reveal the lively side of Berlin.
Here are some questions that arise. How does this diagnosis reflect the reality of Berlin? Or is it just a prejudice or a superficial bias? Is there any opportunity left in Berlin? What does it mean to be Berlin? Is it still valid?
Over the past few months, we got together with different studios and their members to talk about the situation that gives rise to such questions: from those located in Kreuzberg, where most design studios are set up, to those in Charlottenburg, the richest region of the old West Berlin; and from Berlin’s iconic studios to lesser-known practices. They all shared with us rich stories about Berlin as viewed from their standpoints. It is about what has changed and what hasn’t changed, and, at the same time, expectations and worries. It’s also about preconceptions and realities.
We deeply appreciate the 14 studios’ sharing of their frank views on Berlin and their design practices. We would also like to show our gratitude to Node’s Serge Rompza and writer Madeleine Morley, who developed an interesting conversation about Berlin’s graphic design history, and Martin Conrads, who wrote an insightful text on Berlin’s poster culture. Our thanks also go out to all those who participated as contributors.
We hope this issue will help those who are curious about Berlin’s graphic design culture. In addition to detailing design practices of studios that work in the field, we also touched on other relevant issues including rent rise and gentrification. That’s why this issue’s subtitle “studio rental guide” is actually something more than mere rhetoric. Willkommen in Berlin!
CONTRIBUTORS
Büro Bum Bum
David Benski
Dinamo
Eps51
Fehras Publishing Practices
FM Aussenwerbung
Ham Minjoo
Kim Jungyun
Kulturplakatierung
Madeleine Morley
Martin Conrads
preggnant
Rimini Berlin
Ruohan Wang
Schick Toikka
Serge Rompza (NODE)
Stahl R
Studio Pandan
Studio Santiago da Silva
Studio Yukiko
Planned, Edit & designed by
Bernd Grether, Kim Young Sam, Lee Aram, Shin Dokho


Graphic #44
Berlin Issue
Graphic, 2019