designkrefeld edition

Thought Fragments

"Gedankensplitter" is intended to entice you to enter the universe of questioning and thinking about the world and your own place in it.

The book provides a brief insight into the big questions of philosophy. Fourteen designkrefeld students have engaged with more or less well-known philosophers in order to make them and some of their ideas accessible.

So many questions and no easy answers ... An opportunity to immerse themselves in the complexity of concepts such as truth, ethics, morality, nature and existence in order to develop a feel for the complexity of critical thinking.

"Gedankensplitter" is the result of a course - Editorial Design by Professor Nora Gummert-Hauser. It is published by designkrefeld-edition in a limited edition of 100 copies. The book was printed using a total of three colours and three printing processes in riso printing, digital printing and screen printing.

Participants:
Paula Peschel - Aristotle, Lisa Schiller - Wilhelm von Ockham, Emila Berger - Niccolò Machiavelli, Jana Braun - René Descartes, Igor Ribeiro de Medeiros - David Hume, Julia Niemeyer - Arthur Schopenhauer, Este Gremmer - Henry David Thoreau, Liv van Well - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Emma Yeter - Simone Weil, Johanna Markefka - Hannah Arendt, Sina Wallraven - Simone de Beauvoir, Alina Toledo Gonzalez - Elizabeth Anscombe, Veronika Lychagina - Victoria Camps, Johanna Alofs - Cynthia Fleury.

Cover design: Christoph Lehmann

Hardcover
224 pages
135 x 270 mm
Thread stitching
Paper types: Druckfein 90g/Römerturm, endpaper f-Color/Schabert, cover linen Magic/Schabert
Printing: Digital printing black, riso printing 2-colour and screen printing in the printing workshop of the Faculty of Design
Binding: Bumake, Geldern

The Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty of Design,
designkrefeld edition, 2025, Edition: 100

Price: 34€ plus shipping

Messenger #06 - Freedom

" ... Dedicated to a great idea that is worth standing up for every day - created, conceived, written and designed by designkrefeld students, who have given the world of today and tomorrow a piece of freedom, exactly what design can and what design wants, should and, yes, must do. Feel free ..., take a look ..." Prof. Dr. Erik Schmid in the editorial of the magazine

The print magazine Botenstoff #06 on the theme of "Freedom" was created at the Faculty of Design of the Hochschule Niederrhein in a cooperation of text - and editorial design courses with Prof. Nora Gummert-Hauser, Prof. Dr. Erik Schmid and Dipl.-Des. Jens Könen.

Botenstoff #06 - Freiheit
Format 216 x 279 mm
100 pages
Price: 12.00 €, plus shipping

Otl Aicher 100 - "typographie und bürgerliche freiheit" (typography and civil freedom)

The text "typographie und bürgerliche freiheit" by Otl Aicher first appeared in 1988 in the reference book "typographie". On the occasion of the "Aicher 100" anniversary year 2022, we have published this text in lead type in a brochure. The text is introduced with a foreword by Prof. Nora Gummert-Hauser and a biography of Aicher.

Nora Gummert-Hauser conceived, designed and typeset the 48-page brochure, and it was produced by the Druckwerkstatt team - Dan Reynolds, Thomas Junold, Marco Henkenjohann, Beate Wagner and Stefanie Schweers.

140 x 240 mm
48 pages + cover (stiff brochure with attached covers)
Lead type (text Aicher), digital printing (biography) and screen printing (cover)
three types of paper
thread stitching/copy
edition of 100 copies

Price: 24 € plus shipping

From a different perspective

This 48-page colorful booklet whets the appetite for more: As an introduction to the investigation of the Lower Rhine's typeface past, students in a course with Dr. Dan Reynolds created vectorized copies of typefaces. A type specimen catalog produced around 1910 for the brass type foundry Otto Kaester GmbH of Krefeld served as a template. Each course participant:in then interpreted one of these words in their own way in a layout. Together, they printed this brochure on the Faculty of Design's color laser and RISO printer and hand-stitched it.

Project Director: Dr. Dan Reynolds.

Participants:
Alex Agapie, Kathrin Dahmen, Lara Fischer, Julia Frolov, Miriam, Ann-Christine Gierkes, Yllka Hulaj,
Josephine Ruff, Kathrin Wenger, Ruby Weuthen, and Mari Zagoeva.

Softcover
48 pages
17 x 21 cm
thread-stitching
Paper types: Bengali light green, pink and light blue 65g/m²; Bio Top 3 extra 80g/m².
Printer: Ricoh ProC7200sx, RISO SF9350EIIE.

The Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty of Design, Winter semester 2021/22.
designkrefeld edition, Issue 1, 2022, Edition: 100

Price: 18€ plus shipping.

Joseph Beuys - Call to the Alternative - SOLD OUT!

The text by Joseph Beuys appeared in the Frankfurter Rundschau on December 23, 1978. It was published in a brochure in 2021 on the occasion of Beuys' 100th anniversary.

Prof. Nora Gummert-Hauser designed the 48-page booklet, and it was produced by the Druckwerkstatt team - Dan Reynolds, Thomas Junold and Stefanie Schweers.

170 x 260 mm
48 pages
Digital printing and Riso printing
Four types of paper
Thread-stitching
Edition of 100

VISION AND PERSPECTIVE
Krefeld Building Culture by Bernhard Pfau

The brochure was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Vision and Perspective" in summer 2013 and describes the construction of the textile engineering school by Bernhard Pfau, his curriculum vitae and the biography of the building at Frankenring 20 in Krefeld.

12 pages
Cover folds out with exhibition guide
Format 15.7 x 21 cm
Offset printing
black and white plus special color

Price: 10 €, plus shipping

WE ASK FOR YOUR EXCUSE
"Get out of the traffic jam, get on the train. The railroad makes you mobile."

A brochure on the perceptual discrepancies in public transport.
A book project created with students in the print workshop of the Faculty of Design, 2020.
Project management Hartmut Schaarschmidt

32 sides
format 21 x 15,5 cm,
letterpress - lead type
black-and-white plus special color
thread sewing

Price: 18 €, plus shipping

DADA is/was. always there.

Content and design implementation of Dadaism on the occasion of "100 years of DADA"
A book project with students created in the print workshop of the Faculty of Design, 2016.
Project management Hartmut Schaarschmidt

32 pages
Format 19.4 x 27 cm
Letterpress - hot metal typesetting
Printed in color
Thread-stitching
Edition 43

Price: 24 €, plus shipping

SPRACHBARRIEREN
Documentation on the installation "Language Barriers" in Krefeld in September 2013.

In Germany, 76 languages are spoken - 28 national languages and 48 migrant languages. Does a nation need a common language? What does it mean to know German? The Hochschule Niederrhein's Language Barriers installation aims to stimulate social debate about the challenges and opportunities of language diversity in Germany.

The "Language Barriers" project is the winner of the university competition "Shaping demographic change - but how? Young scientists communicate their work" in the Year of Science 2013.

Format: 14 x 21 cm
Form: Leporello
Contents two parts with 28 pages and 40 pages.
Digital printing
thread stitching

Price: 10 €, plus shipping

GRAU IST JA DIE BUNTESTE ALLER FARBEN
Texts by Erik Schmid
A book project with students created in the print workshop of the Faculty of Design, 2016
Project management Hartmut Schaarschmidt

"Erik Schmid, born in 1964, studied art history, musicology, psychology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Paris. He writes, composes and plays the piano. Since 2004, he has been a professor of theories of design at the Faculty of Design at the Hochschule Niederrhein."

Foreword: Jochen Stücke

Format 15.3 x 21.3 cm,
148 pages
Letterpress - lead type and screen printing
Softcover
Edition of 100

Price: 34 €, plus shipping

LIVING WORDS
Stylistic blossoms of an expanded language
A book project with students created in the print workshop of the Faculty of Design

"Dictionaries are like zoos just for words. The word must be well cared for, carefully considered, written down and printed."
Erik Schmid

Project Management Text: Erik Schmid
Project management Printing: Hartmut Schaarschmidt

Format 15.8 x 21.4 cm
100 pages
Letterpress - lead type and screen printing
Softcover
Edition of 50

Price: 34 €, plus shipping

BOTENSTOFF #5 Ethics and Design

BOTENSTOFF is a publication of the design department of the Hochschule Niederrhein and is produced under the aegis of various professors as a project assignment in the studies.

In the Master's Degree programme in Design, topics on morals, responsibility, attitude, action and aesthetics are taught in different teaching formats in the subject 'Ethics'. Exhibitions, symposia and this publication have been created in the process. In the present messenger 'Ethics and Design' some selected original texts are republished, which deal exemplarily with decisive steps of the design process and the connection with moral thinking. Master students dealt with the texts in a team and commented on them.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Plüm

Original texts from
Michael Braungart: Redifining Green. A New Definition of Quality Empowers the Next Wave of Design.
Lucius Burckhardt: Design is Invisible. Design, Society & Pedagogy
Frederic C. Erasmus: No No Position. The designer, the designer, the design.
Boris Groys: The compulsory self-design
Ludger Heidbrink: Life after progress. On the sustainable design of the future.
Tom Holert: Design and nervousness.
Klaus Krippendorf: The semantic turn. A new foundation course for design.
Planning and Democracy, an interview with Tomás Maldonado by Jesko Fezer
Ursula Tischner: Eco Design, Problem Solving instead of Greenwashing
Wolfgang Ulrich: Philosophers have only ever interpreted the world differently - do product designers change it too?

We thank the authors and publishers for reprint permissions.

Issue 5, 2018
Format 19 x 25.5 cm
172 pages
Digital printing
Softcover

Price: 12 €, plus shipping

BOTENSTOFF III - Coincidence

BOTENSTOFF is a publication of the Design Department of the Hochschule Niederrhein and is produced under the aegis of various professors as a project assignment during studies.

Students and lecturers of the Faculty of Design deal with the topic "coincidence" in design and text.

"How does one actually create a world? And why don't words and coincidence belong together? Is one crazy if one says the opposite? Is crazy actually bad? ... (Sonja Friedrich)

Project management: Prof. Silvia Beck

Issue 3, 2009
Each issue has a different, randomly generated motif as its cover.
Format 21 x 29 cm
120 pages
Digital print
Paperback

Price: 12 €, plus shipping

INDEX 01
Collected projects and theses from the Faculty of Design
published 2013, Krefeld

Foreword Prof. Richard Jung

17 x 24 cm
272 pages
Offset printing
Thread sewing OtaBind

Price: 12 €, plus shipping

INDEX 02
Collected projects and theses from the Faculty of Design
published 2019, Krefeld

Foreword Prof. Dr. Kerstin Plüm and Prof. Dr. Erik Schmid

17 x 24 cm
276 pages
Offset printing
Thread sewing OtaBind

Price: 12 €, plus shipping

Bird's-eye view of Art Nouveau
Otto Eckmann and the KWM

This booklet was created as part of Dan Reynolds' editorial design course in the winter semester 2022/23. The course participants visited the exhibition at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum. Inspired by other collection items from the museum archive, the illustrations in this booklet were created and realised using the RISO printing process.

The exhibition
"Collection Satellite #8: Shannon Bool meets Otto Eckmann. Everything that emerges now is the style of our time".

The Berlin-based artist Shannon Bool was invited by the museum to develop new works of art based on the partial estate of the artist Otto Eckmann, who died in 1902, and to present them in an exhibition. Although this kind of examination of Eckmann's work is a novelty in today's visual arts, Eckmann has always been a point of reference in the field of design. Especially in recent years, he and the artists around him have gained more attention.

Digital print black and cover 4-colour
Riso print multi-coloured
Thread stitching
40 pages
Format 180 x 195 mm

Printed and bound in the printing workshop at the Faculty of Design

The Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty of Design,
designkrefeld edition 2023
Edition: 100

Price: 16 €, plus shipping

Eating does not take place in isolation. It takes place in a certain environment - at a table, with certain objects, in social and cultural contexts. How food is served, how people gather around a table and what processes are created in the process have a significant impact on how a dining situation is perceived and experienced. From a design perspective, this interplay can be described as the dramaturgy of the meal. Space, objects, actions and processes together shape the situation in which eating takes place.

The five projects on display from the field of teaching Ceramic, Porcelain and Glass Design were created between 2024 and 2026 at The Hochschule Niederrhein's Faculty of Design. They deal with food and table culture as a design field and examine how design can influence, structure or rethink such situations. What all the projects have in common is their working method: They were created in inter- and transdisciplinary constellations.

We understand interdisciplinary as cooperation between clearly defined disciplines that bring their respective perspectives and methods to a joint design process, from different degree programmes and faculties to cross-university cooperation.

The work becomes transdisciplinary when other actors are involved in the process beyond these disciplinary boundaries - such as practice partners, users or external experts who actively shape the question and the design process, such as restaurateurs, trade fairs and the trade press. In all cases, collaboration is not an add-on, but the starting point of the projects.

This catalogue brings together the work of the students as well as the voices of those who were involved in the projects or accompanied them from different perspectives. The essays, dialogues and interviews expand the projects with insights into processes, perspectives and experiences of collaboration. They show how inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in design can be conceived, practised and experienced.

Thread stitching, stiff brochure
Digital print
Paper: Pergraphica classic, 120 g/m2
Book cover with embossing

Printer: Druckverlag Kettler, Bönen

Fonts: reckless displaay type foundry and lausanne weltkern

Format: 170 x 240 mm
264 pages

Publishers:
Uta Abendroth
Lena Bothe
Johanna Feinendegen
Kerstin Froch
Prof.in Lisa Freyschmidt
Prof.in Nora Gummert-Hauser
Prof.in Anna Koch
Christian Krüger
Margeaux Rotenberg
Prof. dr. Erik Schmid
Celine Weller

Project responsibility: Professor Lisa Freyschmidt
Layout: Johanna Alofs, Tyra Schurf, Laura-Yuxuan Lin

The Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty of Design
designkrefeld edition 2026, Edition: 329

Price: 27€ plus shipping

Set of postcards to mark the 100th expenditure of Design Discussion in January 2026

design
discuss
ion 100

100 topics
100 Thursdays
100 beers afterwards
100 posters
Over 100 guests
Many thousands of questions

The Design Discussion is a dialogue format that exists as a cooperation between the Cultural Office of the City of Krefeld and designkrefeld, the Faculty of Design at The Hochschule Niederrhein. It has been held five times a year since 2005 and was created by Professor Dr Erik Schmid and students as a curricular supplement to their studies and as a bridge and forum for connecting the university, Krefeld, society, business and science.

To mark the 100th expenditure, this set of postcards was designed and printed from the 100 title motifs.

Postcard set of 100 postcards (DIN A6) with banderole
Digital print

Motifs: Excerpts from the 100 cover motifs of the design discussion

Project responsibility: Professor Dr Erik Schmid
Postcard layout: Sofie Dehning

The Hochschule Niederrhein, Faculty of Design,
designkrefeld edition 2026

Edition: 100
Price: € 20, plus postage