Book desgin for “Transformation von Mittelstädten”, a publication that we created with graduates at RWTH Aachen university. Medium-sized cities have a particular relevance for the development of robust, crisis-resistant, and sustainable spatial structures in Germany. At the same time, they face fundamental future challenges. Challenges, such as climate change, demographic change, and structural transformation are somewhat different than in large cities. The contributions demonstrate how, within the framework of the graduate program “Medium-Sized City as a Participatory City,” (Mittelstadt als Mitmachstadt) urban research and medium-sized city practice interact to jointly develop impulses for the transformation of smaller medium-sized cities.

Nuances is Alwin Maigler’s first ballet photography series, focusing on the fleeting moments between movement. The project contrasts the fluidity of dance with the stillness of photography. It reveals ballet’s aesthetic depth in a way that often goes unseen. In Nocturne, Maigler moves beyond the theater to capture the Stuttgart Ballet dancers in the city’s nighttime urban landscape. Free from the conventional constraints of the stage, the dancers defy norms, leaping into fountains, battling in parks, and climbing statues. These subversive and joyful images are complemented by texts. One of the contributions is Marcia Haydée, one of the most influential ballerinas of the 20th century.

THE OPÉRA is an annually released magazine about contemporary and nude photography. It’s latest issue, Volme 12: ÆTHERUM, gathers the works of established photographic artists and emerging talents. Once again, THE OPÉRA gives as much importance to the specifically female perspective on the human body as the nuanced representation that goes beyond common stereotypes.

Since we have been working on the annual catalogs and exhibition documentation for „Weißenhof-Programme“ of Fine Arts at ABK Stuttgart. In now eight publications, we gather different artistic positions and express them through exhibition material from Villa Merkel, Gallery of the City of Esslingen.

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, one of the Apollo 11 crew, placed his left foot on the surface of the moon for the first time in human history. Our fascination with Earth’s satellite has lost none of its power. NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon tracks the astronaut’s journey to the moon. It documents the visual materials that the three crew members brought back with them. They were supplied with a Hasselblad 500EL Data Camera. They took photographs with Réseau plates and a Zeiss Biogon 60mm ƒ/5.6 lens before and during the mission. The visual material that emerged from this can be seen in NASA’s online archive and is shown for the first time in its entirety in NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon. Besides the design the Studio also did the research for this publication.