“Vi­sion­Plus Vi­enna: trans­form­ing in­for­ma­tion” is a con­fer­ence, or­ga­nized by the In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion De­sign (IIID), to ex­am­ine the role of the Iso­type trans­former 90 years on. The venue is ded­i­cated to Marie Neu­rath. Much of her early work for the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmu­seum was path­break­ing. Siy­blle Schlaich und Heike Nehl are in­vited to join the con­fer­ence as speak­ers.

The be­gin­ning of June will see the 15th “Chil­dren and Youth Wel­fare Day”, with Berlin as this year’s host city. The event will take place in a ded­i­cated area of 1,300 square me­tres, sup­ported by the 12 dis­tricts of Berlin and spon­sors. Moni­teurs is in charge of the ex­hi­bi­tion de­sign, while xplicit has de­signed the ex­hi­bi­tion graph­ics for over 50 par­tic­i­pants. In­di­vid­u­ally de­signed, mod­u­lar el­e­ments will be com­bined to cre­ate a cityscape, ac­com­pa­nied by ex­per­i­men­tal art­work. > To the pro­ject

Sil­ver for the mi­crosite “Font­walk”, de­signed by Moni­teurs. We cel­e­brate to­gether with our client FontShop over this year’s prize, awarded by the Eu­ro­pean De­sign Awards 2014. > To the pro­ject

Moni­teurs is to be a guest at “Wednes­day Sem­i­nars” at the uni­ver­sity of De­sign Schwäbish Gmünd on the is­sue “com­mu­ni­ca­tion in space”. Ex­perts from the fields of de­sign, art and cul­ture, sci­ence and in­dus­try are in­vited to speak on cur­rent top­ics in their re­spec­tive fields.

Sibylle Schlaich has been in­vited by Pro­fes­sor Skopec to speak at “Beziehungsweisen” (“Mak­ing Con­nec­tions”) in the class of Vi­sual Sys­tems. She will talk pri­mar­ily about the de­sign process with re­spect to large pro­jects, and on the topic of ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems.

The his­tor­i­cal Palace of Cul­ture in Dres­den, a na­tional her­itage site, will be ren­o­vated by the ar­chi­tects von Gerkan, Marg and part­ners. Moni­teurs has de­signed the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, com­mis­sioned by Kom­mu­nale Im­mo­belien Dres­den. From 2017, Dres­den will once again have a cul­tural cen­tre with a con­cert hall, a cen­tral li­brary and a cabaret the­atre. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: gmp Ar­chi­tects

Right in the cen­tre of Berlin, on the cor­ner of Franzö­sis­che Straße and Glinkas­traße, the Deutsche Geset­zliche Un­fal­lver­sicherung, the DGUV (Ger­man So­cial In­sur­ance Or­gan­i­sa­tion) is un­der con­struc­tion. The ad­min­is­tra­tion build­ing, de­signed by Grün­tuch Ernst Ar­chi­tects, has been awarded the Gold Cer­tifi­cate from the Ger­man Sus­tain­able Build­ing Coun­cil. Moni­teurs, com­mis­sioned di­rectly by the DGUV, has de­signed the build­ing's ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, and should be com­pleted later this year. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Grün­tuch Ernst Ar­chi­tects BDA

A vi­sion fo­rum for an even more un­usual ma­te­r­ial in con­struc­tion, with speak­ers who are among the most dis­tin­guished and ex­pe­ri­enced in con­struct­ing with car­bon. Moni­teurs has de­signed the web­site and the print me­dia for the con­fer­ence at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Berlin. > To the pro­ject

Af­ter the suc­cess­ful book on ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems by Per Mollerup was pub­lished at the end of last year, there is now a sec­ond book on the topic, com­pletely re­vised and with a greater prac­ti­cal sec­tion. It will mainly cover ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems for ma­jor pro­jects and pub­lic spaces. The ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port by Moni­teurs is also among the se­lected works cov­ered.

Film­ga­lerie 451 pre­sents the fol­low­ing at the Berli­nale 2014: “The Airstrip” by Heinz Emigholz, “Three stones for Jean Genet” by Frieder Schlaich with Patti Smith, “Every­thing that rises must con­verge” by Omer Fast, “La ul­tima pelic­ula” by Ray Mar­tin & Mark Per­an­son. Posters and book­let for the party in the Berghain Kan­tine were de­signed by Moni­teurs. Printed by Xplicit in Riso­graph. > To the pro­ject