Johannes Schnatmann
Graphic design, art direction, editorial design
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Jugend
Typographic Archive Volume No. 1
January 2019
Edition of 1
210 x 297 mm
Publication about the typographic titles of the german art nouveau magazine "Jugend". This archive contains a selection of display fonts from the first volume of the ”Jugend“ magazine. Trying to analyze and digitalize the headlines of the cover, each specimen contains a different font.
GP DP 01
Ist Gestaltung Haltung? Is design attitude?
February 2021
Edition of 30
180 x 250 mm
The bilingual publication GP DP 01 is giving nine different positions towards graphic design and typography. Based on Helmut Schmid‘s essay "gestaltung ist haltung; design is attitude" this book is presenting positions from the likes of Emil Ruder, Josef Müller-Brockmann and more historic positions. To bring it into the contemporary context I could get in touch with Radim Peško, Harsh Patel, Vela Arbutina, Peter Saville and Bernd Kuchenbeiser. The result is a collection of conversations and essays which give the reader an insight into the different possibilities of ones practice.
Available on request
SENSUS
December 2018
Edition of 1
250 x 175 mm
Sensus is an answer to the Alphabet Reform Committee exhibition by Jetset Experimental. In form of a booklet it collects photographies, drawings, thoughts on symbols and their physical extensions. It embodies new symbols of natural expressions based on organic shapes.
ZINCO
Display Typeface
2018
Font in use:
SUPER Magazine by Bureau Borsche / Mirko Borsche
Zinco is the modular revival of a display font by Franco Grignani, which he used in a poster in 1960. Based on the original letters I developed a display typeface. The letters develop out of a rectangle where they get shaped through curves to become letters. The typeface seemed to be the foundation for an interesting cut-out concept which eventually lead to the development of a whole variable typeface.
Available on request
Studied visual communication in Hannover, Germany and graphic design in The Hague, The Netherlands. After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague for an exchange semester abroad, he moved to Berlin, Germany. There he began to work as a freelance designer. Starting with an internship at bus.group and working for the experimental music label PAN he could benefit from the diversity of tasks within the projects.
Throughout the last few years he gained several insights into the industry through a designers perspective. Between the development of identities in the field of culture e.g. logotype for PAN, exhibition design, designing graphics for the streetwear brand PAM (Perks And Mini).
Beside the interest in design as a field of work, he is also interested in the core of the subject. The conversation with people about their own perspectives and position in context of design lead to funding his own platform for exchanging, publishing and archiving texts. GP DP, Designing Positions is his personal approach to influence and reach out to designers and people, interested in the field of design.
Johannes Schnatmann
Graphic design, art direction, editorial design
Mail
+4917687086799
Please get in touch or scroll down, if you would like to have more information. For inquiries please contact me via mail.
Jugend
Typographic Archive Volume No. 1
January 2019
Edition of 1
210 x 297 mm
Publication about the typographic titles of the german art nouveau magazine "Jugend". This archive contains a selection of display fonts from the first volume of the ”Jugend“ magazine. Trying to analyze and digitalize the headlines of the cover, each specimen contains a different font.
GP DP 01
Ist Gestaltung Haltung? Is design attitude?
February 2021
Edition of 30
180 x 250 mm
The bilingual publication GP DP 01 is giving nine different positions towards graphic design and typography. Based on Helmut Schmid‘s essay "gestaltung ist haltung; design is attitude" this book is presenting positions from the likes of Emil Ruder, Josef Müller-Brockmann and more historic positions. To bring it into the contemporary context I could get in touch with Radim Peško, Harsh Patel, Vela Arbutina, Peter Saville and Bernd Kuchenbeiser. The result is a collection of conversations and essays which give the reader an insight into the different possibilities of ones practice.
Available on request
SENSUS
December 2018
Edition of 1
250 x 175 mm
Sensus is an answer to the Alphabet Reform Committee exhibition by Jetset Experimental. In form of a booklet it collects photographies, drawings, thoughts on symbols and their physical extensions. It embodies new symbols of natural expressions based on organic shapes.
ZINCO
Display Typeface
2018
Font in use:
SUPER Magazine by Bureau Borsche / Mirko Borsche
Zinco is the modular revival of a display font by Franco Grignani, which he used in a poster in 1960. Based on the original letters I developed a display typeface. The letters develop out of a rectangle where they get shaped through curves to become letters. The typeface seemed to be the foundation for an interesting cut-out concept which eventually lead to the development of a whole variable typeface.
Available on request
Studied visual communication in Hannover, Germany and graphic design in The Hague, The Netherlands. After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague for an exchange semester abroad, he moved to Berlin, Germany. There he began to work as a freelance designer. Starting with an internship at bus.group and working for the experimental music label PAN he could benefit from the diversity of tasks within the projects.
Throughout the last few years he gained several insights into the industry through a designers perspective. Between the development of identities in the field of culture e.g. logotype for PAN, exhibition design, designing graphics for the streetwear brand PAM (Perks And Mini).
Beside the interest in design as a field of work, he is also interested in the core of the subject. The conversation with people about their own perspectives and position in context of design lead to funding his own platform for exchanging, publishing and archiving texts. GP DP, Designing Positions is his personal approach to influence and reach out to designers and people, interested in the field of design.