Larkspur 02 Larkspur 03 2 Larkspur 3
Larkspur 04 Larkspur 05 4 Larkspur 5
Signal 02 Signal 03 6 Signal 7
Signal 04 Signal 05 8 Signal 9
Halbjahr 02 Halbjahr 03 10 Halbjahr 11
Halbjahr 04 Halbjahr 05 12 Halbjahr 13
Grain 02 Grain 03 14 Grain 15
Grain 04 Grain 05 16 Grain 17
Fieldnotes 02 Fieldnotes 03 18 Field Notes on Concrete 19
Fieldnotes 04 Fieldnotes 05 20 Field Notes on Concrete 21
Quiethours 02 Quiethours 03 22 The Quiet Hours 23
Quiethours 04 Quiethours 05 24 The Quiet Hours 25
Weft 02 Weft 03 26 Weft 27
Weft 04 Weft 05 28 Weft 29
Positions 02 Positions 03 30 Positions 03 31
Positions 04 Positions 05 32 Positions 03 33
Brueckner 02 Brueckner 03 34 Annual Report 2025 35
Brueckner 04 Brueckner 05 36 Annual Report 2025 37
Waterledger 02 Waterledger 03 38 Water Ledger 39
Waterledger 04 Waterledger 05 40 Water Ledger 41

40 pages · 10 publications Every page of every publication

Publications

On the shelf

Ten publications, standing at their printed size.

Larkspur Larkspur 01 Larkspur Larkspur Verlag · 2025 230 × 300 mm · 128 pp Signal Signal 01 Signal Funkwerk Media · 2024 220 × 285 mm · 96 pp Halbjahr Halbjahr 01 Halbjahr Stadtbild e.V. · 2026 200 × 270 mm · 144 pp Grain Grain 01 Grain Mühle Press · 2025 170 × 240 mm · 256 pp Field Notes on Concrete Fieldnotes 01 Field Notes on Concrete Kessler Editions · 2024 240 × 300 mm · 192 pp
The Quiet Hours Quiethours 01 The Quiet Hours Nachtfalter Verlag · 2023 125 × 200 mm · 320 pp Weft Weft 01 Weft Textilmuseum Plagwitz · 2025 210 × 280 mm · 160 pp Positions 03 Positions 01 Positions 03 Kunsthalle Nord · 2024 225 × 285 mm · 112 pp Annual Report 2025 Brueckner 01 Annual Report 2025 Brückner Foundation · 2026 210 × 297 mm · 88 pp Waterledger 01 Water Ledger Elbe Water Trust · 2025 200 × 260 mm · 72 pp

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Colophon

Who set these

Hanne Vogt at the light table
Fig. 1 - At the light table, Plagwitz

Eleven years of pages that have to be read, not only looked at: magazines, books, catalogs and annual reports, set on a grid I can defend and in two typefaces at most. Trained as a typesetter; one floor of a former cotton mill in Plagwitz. The flatplan goes up the day the brief arrives and comes down the day the issue ships.

  • Magazines
  • Books
  • Catalogs
  • Annual reports
  • Typesetting
Colophon
Set in
Two families per publication, never more
Paper
Uncoated where the budget allows; proofs read under daylight
Trained
As a typesetter, then four years in a magazine art department
Based
Leipzig, Plagwitz - the printer is two floors down
Since
2015
Pages set
12,480 and counting
Process
  1. 01Brief
  2. 02Flatplan
  3. 03Grid and type
  4. 04Layouts
  5. 05Proofs
  6. 06Press

Clients

Where the work has run

Magazines

  • Larkspur Verlag 2021 -
  • Funkwerk Media 2024
  • Stadtbild e.V. 2026
  • Kontor Quarterly 2022

Publishers

  • Mühle Press 2025
  • Kessler Editions 2024
  • Nachtfalter Verlag 2023
  • Spreu Books 2022

Museums

  • Textilmuseum Plagwitz 2025
  • Kunsthalle Nord 2024
  • Haus der Fotografie 2023
  • Druckwerk Halle 2022

Foundations

  • Brückner Foundation 2026
  • Elbe Water Trust 2025
  • Stiftung Nordlicht 2024
  • Lindenhof Trust 2023

Tearsheets and full credits on request through the agency.

In their words

Afterwards

Judith Ahrens Editor-in-chief, Larkspur Issue 14, spring

The flatplan was on the wall before we had finished the first meeting. By the time the last piece of copy arrived, the issue already had a shape it could not lose.

Tobias Lenz Publisher, Mühle Press Grain, hardcover

Two typefaces for two hundred and fifty-six pages, and not one spread where I wanted a third.

Miriam Sauer Head of communications, Brückner Foundation Annual report 2025

The report was read. The board actually read it, cover to cover. I have no other way to explain the questions they asked afterwards.

Commission

Start a publication

What it is, roughly how many pages, and when it has to be at the printer.

Trim size
Working title
Your name
Email
Extent
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The brief
A PDF of the last issue says more than a deck.