Documentation Centre Hamburg – typographic mural The wall of solid, greenish-grey steel plates behind the central reception counter bears an initially enigmatic pattern of punched-out capital letters. They are alphabets in a continuous, regularly arranged row. The letters can be individually backlit. An algorithm makes new letters appear alternately and time-delayed. Over the course of 24 hours, the names of all the Jews, Roma and Sinti deported from this station become visible. The ornamentation of the letters thus comes to life, inviting us to look, to decipher and to play with our perception. The emphasis on the individual and the persistent rhythm of appearance and disappearance symbolically rebels against forgetting and reminds us of what happened at this place.
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The general assembly of the professional association appointed Reinhard Gassner, together with Walter Bohatsch and others, an honorary member in Vienna last Friday. Besides the graphic design pioneers Othmar Motter (1927-2010) and Josef Hofer (1927-2016), Reinhard Gassner is now the third Vbg. designer to receive this honour.
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