The design of the magazine is intended to put the different text forms of essay, article and poetic texts into a new context. The texts are classically published in other forms of media (e.g. books or newspapers) and are not typically mixed. There are various elements of classic newspaper and book design elements that meet in the magazine format. There are three different grids for the different sections. With the exception of cooperation pages, the issues are exclusively illustrated by different creatives, and the illustrations provide an additional visual framework for the
Julia works as a freelance graphic designer in Berlin since 2013. In her home studio she develops corporate and editorial designs as well as web designs. If required, she works in house for clients too. In the past five years she worked for other design studios, small and medium-sized businesses as well as enterprises. She provides clean yet strong designs with a focus on typography. Besides that she does the art direction and publishing of a non-profit magazine together with friends.
[kɔn] is an up-and-coming magazine for literature and culture. The concept: Take a single word, have it reinterpreted by professors, poets, and free thinkers of all stripes with clever poems, exciting short stories, scholarly essays, and journalistic reviews. Then refine the whole thing with some wonderful illustrations and the result is a magazine that not only looks super chic, but also, quite incidentally, questions the border spaces of writing and form, writing and visuality, and language itself in an extremely entertaining way. The texts are accompanied by an illustrative concept throughout the whole issue.