New Design from Düsseldorf 2026: A Graduate Graphic Design Book

Slanted Publishers' New Design from Düsseldorf 2026 is a 360-page graphic design book of 50 graduate projects from Hochschule Düsseldorf's design school.

The cover sets the register immediately: light grey textured stock, coral-red condensed sans at roughly 80pt, three stacked lines. Inside, the contents spread runs a 5×5 grid of black-and-white project thumbnails on that same coral red (#E8432A), bilingual chapter labels in medium-weight sans at 14pt flush left. The interior spreads are deliberately unresolved — a powder-blue pamphlet fanned open next to a white tulip-pedestal table, a torn kraft-paper board on a brick plinth with blue-ink serif text printed across it, a pink-on-cream folk illustration in a single spot colour. This graphic design book doesn't editorialize; it holds the range.

A Graduate Graphic Design Book Built from the Margins

This graphic design book gathers around 50 nominated projects — assembled by editors Eric Fritsch and Anne-Cathrine Mosbach, with design by Clarissa Nguyen, Elina Seidler, Felix Bullik, Niklas Schönemann, and Noah Kortenbruck — across Communication Design, New Craft Object Design, Retail Design, and Exhibition Design. The breadth is the argument: that graphic design education in Düsseldorf in 2026 isn't converging on a single aesthetic but spreading outward into identity, feminism, sustainability, and material experiment. A 360-page graphic design book that reads less like a yearbook and more like a field report.

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