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Maximage is an award-winning design studio based in Switzerland.
It offers a large area of expertise including visual identities, digital solutions, books, posters, typefaces, artworks and consultancy. In its practice, tools and technology are constantly challenged, introducing a reflection on contemporary production processes. Over the years the studio has collaborated with institutions and clients in Switzerland and abroad. Long-term collaborations include art direction for the Zurich-based publishing house Edition Patrick Frey and the development of campaigns for Arsenic–Contemporary Peforming Arts Center. 

Parallel to its work, Maximage offers numerous workshops and lectures at Swiss and international universities. Members of the studio regularly teach at HEAD in Geneva, ZHDK in Zurich, as well as ECAL in Lausanne, where they conducted a research project on printing technologies, which resulted in the creation of Color Library. Maximage also manages the type design platform Maxitype that offers retail and bespoke typefaces and encourages research and development in typography. 

The work of Maximage received several awards from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in recognition to their commitment to the field. In 2020, the studio was honoured the Jan Tschichold Award.

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Founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2019, BlackMass Publishing is a New York-based collective and independent press. At once a structure of coherent units and a collection of disjointed parts, BlackMass invokes an aggregate of Blackness, of matter in resistance. Combining archival photographs and found print material with poetry and jazz music, BlackMass grapples with the blurred lines and idiosyncrasies which make up the collective improvisation of African diasporic culture.

BlackMass Publishing holds publications in the permanent collection of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Langston Hughes Library, The Center for Book Arts, New York Public Library,Thomas J. Watson Library, Queens College (New York) The Houghton Library, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library Tate Modern (UK), Oxford University, Wellcome Collection (London) and The Whitney Museum Library.

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Team Thursday is Loes van Esch and Simone Trum, collaborating as a graphic design studio based in Rotterdam. They focus on the design of visual identities, books and spatial objects. They do so with a special interest for typography, a curiousness for materials and the possible performativity of an object. Looking for patterns in everything and all around them, they search for how they can transform these into designs. Next to that they regularly teach Typography at ArtEZ in Arnhem and irregularly host exhibitions and events in the front part of their studiospace, TTHQ. 

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Pykë-Presje works mainly with printed matter and runs an independent cultural space and bookshop in Prizren.

The platform produces experimental radical publications, organises exhibitions, discursive programs and workshops. Its focus is on internationalist and revolutionary documents and archives, emphasising local histories of people’s movements, gender emancipation and class consciousness defying the nation-state narratives.

Pykë-Presje is formed of Sezgin Boynik (1977, RKS), Blerta Haziraj (1994, RKS), Somer Spat (1996, RKS) and Tevfik Rada (1991, RKS).

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Archival Consciousness is initiated by artist Mariana Lanari and graphic designer Remco van Bladel to collaborate with libraries and archives in cultural institutions. We work in close collaboration with archivists to implement methods and infrastructure to turn their collections into data. We are interested in the long term preservation and dissemination of physical archives, in connection with the digital archive. The digital component of archives, their databases, are the starting point of our work. We are developing a shared and community driven graph that acts as an interaction layer on top of the existing databases of libraries and archives. In this way, we bring linked-data aggregation to the application layer to facilitate discovery, browsing, and navigation through explorative features of graph algorithms.

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Selina Bernet is a graphic and type designer, living and working in Zurich. She studied Graphic Design at Bern Academy of the Arts, did the Master in Type and Media at KABK in The Hague and interned in Buenos Aires, Reykjavik and Berlin. After working at Source Type for several years she’s now running her own studio besides teaching at Lucerne School of Art and Design, F+F Zurich and Bern Academy of the Arts.

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D-E-A-L is a creative studio run by a group of designers, artists and developers, operating from Brussels since 2018. The studio creates tailored visual languages drawn from the assignment's singularities by interconnecting medium, formats, and disciplines with a little twist.

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