This book, pub­lished by the type de­sign­ers Alexan­der Branczyk, Jutta Nachtwey, Heike Nehl, Sibylle Schlaich and Jür­gen Siebert, and de­signed by Moni­teurs, fea­tures por­traits of in­ter­na­tional type de­sign­ers and their lat­est fonts. emo­tion­al_dig­i­tal is both a ref­er­ence work and a guide to the fu­ture of type de­sign. Its lay­out is pre­cise and at­mos­pheric, al­low­ing each type to be shown with its full vi­sual po­ten­tial. Alexan­der Branczyk con­ducted stud­ies on two clas­sic fonts ex­clu­sively for this book.

The BDA (the As­so­ci­a­tion of Ger­man Ar­chi­tects) com­prises around 5,000 free­lance ar­chi­tects and ur­ban plan­ners, who stand for qual­ity and per­sonal in­tegrity and were for these rea­sons called into the as­so­ci­a­tion. It acts at dif­fer­ent lev­els within the Fed­er­a­tion, in state or­gan­i­sa­tions and re­gional groups to pro­mote “the mis­sion” of ar­chi­tec­ture and build­ing cul­ture. The new web­site is in­tended as a com­mon plat­form for these as­so­ci­a­tions and groups. The main con­cern was to show “good” ar­chi­tec­ture – in other words, vi­su­ally strik­ing and at­trac­tive, with a fo­cus on the mul­ti­fac­eted sub­ject of ar­chi­tec­ture. Be­sides its func­tion as an in­for­ma­tion and ex­change plat­form for the in­di­vid­ual mem­bers, it was im­por­tant to pro­vide in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic, e.g., con­struc­tion clients and ar­chi­tects, on the work of the BDA. The com­plex struc­ture had to be de­signed to be sim­ple and user-friendly. A fur­ther im­por­tant cri­te­rion was that the web­site has to be main­tained by many mem­bers/​​ed­i­tors. A sim­ple con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem was re­quired, with the abil­ity to share con­tent both in­ter­nally as well as ex­ter­nally.

The Book-a-Slot book­ing ser­vice takes you quickly through the se­cu­rity check. To­gether with our part­ner iab­sis, a Swiss-based in­no­va­tion dri­ver, Moni­teurs de­vel­oped a new prod­uct for air­ports. The con­cept and idea for this ser­vice were de­vel­oped dur­ing a hackathon at which the team won the first prize in the “Life be­fore the Air­port” chal­lenge.

The ser­vice had its first test run from 12th No­vem­ber till 20th De­cem­ber and was avail­able for 1500 flights in Eu­rope.