Dur­ing the Berli­nale 2014 at the Berghain Kan­tine, the Film­ga­lerie 451 cel­e­brated the pre­mieres of four films: “The Airstrip” by Heinz Emigholz, “Three Stones for Jean Genet”, by Frieder Schlaich, “Every­thing that rises must con­verge” and “La Ul­tima Pec­ula”, by Raya Mar­tin and Mark Per­an­son. Moni­teurs de­signed a 16-page book­let as a per­sonal in­vi­ta­tion with pho­tog­ra­phy and graph­ics from the films, which was printed in lim­ited edi­tion on a Riso­graph. The Riso­graph prints with a par­tic­u­larly gen­tle sten­cil print­ing process in the style of screen print­ing, which makes it pos­si­ble to print with bright, beau­ti­ful colours.

The Film­ga­lerie 451 pro­duces, pub­lishes and de­liv­ers – not only their own – films which, due to their in­no­v­a­tive and non­con­formist na­ture, are com­mer­cially too risky – for ex­am­ple, the films of Christoph Schlin­gen­sief or Heinz Emigholz. The cor­po­rate de­sign func­tions sim­ply: a mono­chrome colour con­cept, type­writer-ty­pog­ra­phy and a strong cen­tral im­age.

Médecins sans Fron­tières is a No­bel Peace Prize win­ning emer­gency med­ical or­gan­i­sa­tion that op­er­ates in con­flict zones around the world. Since 2000, Moni­teurs has been re­spon­si­ble for the cor­po­rate de­sign of the Ger­man branch. The year 2014 has seen the or­gan­i­sa­tion sharpen its im­age: clear, in­de­pen­dent, pro­fes­sional – these are the es­sen­tial at­trib­utes. Moni­teurs’ task is to re­flect these at­trib­utes in print. The cor­po­rate de­sign is kept open in or­der to be able to speak specif­i­cally to the dif­fer­ent tar­get groups. The colour red and the con­cise ty­pog­ra­phy, de­vel­oped for Médecins sans Fron­tières by Moni­teurs – a “rough” head­line cut, based on the font Fago – have be­come im­por­tant dis­tin­guish­ing fea­tures for the or­gan­i­sa­tion.