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The appearance of books in movies has never been random, even though hardly ever playing the main role. Sissi Tax’s brilliant bibliographic comments are the very first on an imaginary library of hollywood movies.

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Christoph Türcke hat über zwanzig Jahre an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig gelehrt. Die »Farewell-Lectures« waren sein gefeiertes Abschiedsgeschenk. Sie entsprechen dem schon in der Antrittsvorlesung 1993 formulierten Credo: »Philosophie muss sich darstellen. Ihre gedankliche Reflexion muss Fleisch, Farbe, Plastizität bekommen, wenn sie in der Bilderflut nicht untergehen will.«

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Rike Felka discusses Jacques Derrida’s concept of writing, one of the most influential philosophical theories of recent decades.

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It’s hardly happenstance that the beginnings of modern-science marketing coincide with the history of a publisher whose only goal was to spread Freudian psychoanalysis. The International Psychoanalytic Publishing House was initiated in 1919 by Sigmund Freud and was one of the pioneers of modern book design.

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“Hindu Kush." A photograph shot haphazardly form an airplane window by an American journalist becomes a metaphor for an impossible war. Marc Ries analyzes the image and its media metamorphoses.

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Hermann Schweppenhäuser’s lecture on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.

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"I personally am the only TYPOGRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTIVIST in Leipzig." ? Tschichold, born in 1902 in Leipzig, studied at the Academy of Visual Arts with Walter Tiemann and Hermann Delitzsch and experienced the start of the city’s typographic modernity, becoming one of its important catalysts with his “New Typography,” published in 1928.

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The developments of contemporary book design occur seemingly contradictorily and randomly.
Walter Pamminger demonstrates how this variety nevertheless follows determinable patterns.

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Because each photograph is inherently historical, historiography must ask for their particular value.

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Reading is to be punctuated by interruptions, ?stoppages, deviations. [...] Ellipsis make interruptions readable.

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Marianne Betz’s text follows the “Sound of Silence,” which is a part of the history of music — and not just since John Cage's experiments.

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How logos, curves, and characters turn into visio types, set pieces of communication, using the example of the “superhelix.”

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