Topic:

Multilingual Typography

Brief description:

When working with multilingual typography, learned rules and concepts of typographand layout have to be questioned. lf we want to pay respect to the second languagewe have to change our thinking and encounter the familiar language from a foreignplace. In this way we can question our convictions, break down our rules and liquefour visual language in order to open up our world.

In various applications, we explore the relationship between two scripts througlayout, typography, and type. We try to apply strategies to an extreme in order to finobreaking points that we can explore creatively.

Biography:

Dan Solbach is a Swiss graphic designer based in Berlin, Germany specializing in art books and visual identities. His practice focuses on design for artists, galleries, and contemporary art institutions. In close collaboration with the clients, Solbach develops artists’ books, exhibition catalogues, monographs, and visual identities. He is also a founding member of Kona Books, an independent publishing house based in Tbilisi, Georgia, and he is involved in the adjacent book shop Posta da Kona. 

His clients include among others institutions such as Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle Bern; Kunsthalle Zürich; Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf; Mudam Luxembourg, Tank Shanghai; Starship Publishing, Berlin; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; and White Cube, London. His work was awarded the Most Beautiful Swiss Books and the Swiss Design Award, and he is twice the recipient of the Goldene Letter, the highest distinction for the Best Book Design from all over the world.