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A collection of posters and prints are pinned to a large black plastic sheet draped against a white wall. One poster features the phrase “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, while others show portraits, abstract shapes and diagrams.

Graphic design by the people, for the people/fun by Lorenz Klingebiel

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Date
15 June 2012

There’s great appeal to the contemporary-nod-at-those-before design portfolio of Lorenz Klingebiel – it’s inclusive and full of social graphics projects that range from an in-college Copy Shop with a trusty black and white copier to a rather great poster series that uses Zukunft a typeface of Lorenz’s making (a combination of opposing faces Garabond and Grotesque in a contemporary “re-interpretation of the typographic view on the future in the tradition of Futura”!) which was then applied by 11 designers of various standing onto a classic poster work. Lorenz’s portfolio is full of curatorial endeavours that react directly with current affairs and yes, trends, but all the better for it.

A blue and white illustration featuring a paintbrush and two drawing tools laid across a rectangular frame. Bold text in tilted boxes reads “Rilke” and “Zukunft”. A block of German poetry is printed in the bottom right corner.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: The Zukunft Series – Sebastian Pataki

A purple poster featuring a large, grainy white smiley face. White lines connect a scattered array of words, including “Absolute”, “Zukunft” and “We absolutely do not care about the”.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: The Zukunft Series – Benjamin Franzki & Jan Münz, Studio 2+

A stylized portrait of a bearded person wearing a cap, rendered in a gradient of orange and blue. The image uses a high-contrast, graphic style on a plain white background.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: The Zukunft Series – Fraser Muggeridge, London

A typographic poster reads “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” in blue serif capitals. Fluid, graffiti-style blue strokes swirl across the centre, partially obscuring the word “IS”.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: The Zukunft Series – Guillaume Grall, Playgground

Two people hold up a typographic poster with red and black text on a white background. The main headline reads “Raus Kopieren!” and the layout includes a list of names and a schedule of events.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: Copy Shop

A large black and white photograph is pasted across the walls of a concrete room. It shows two people in white coats standing beside a photocopier in a room covered in prints, with the words “Copy shop” visible on the right.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: Copy Shop

A person holds a thick, black and white publication with a red stripe along the spine. The cover features a grainy, high-contrast image and the word “SHOP” in white capital letters.
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Lorenz Klingebiel: Copy Shop

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Bryony Quinn

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Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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