In 2009, the National Portrait Gallery in London presented pictures of the painter Gerhard Richter. An exhibition catalogue was devised, accompanying this event, which – just like the exhibition – highlights profound aspects of Richter’s work and shows pictures of the artist never presented before. The exhibition focuses on the early black-and-white pictures derived from magazine titles, and portraits from Richter’s private environment. Among these is the snapshot of his daughter pictured on the cover. The design of the catalogue is inspired by Richter’s technique which, on the one hand, appears reserved and systematic and, on the other, is interspersed with expressive strokes. The headlines were therefore set in the technical DIN typeface and then manually displaced to create a similar atmosphere.

client

National Portrait Gallery, London
[www.npg.org.uk]

design

Thomas Manss & Company, London/Berlin
[www.manss.com]

graphic design

Thomas Manss, Nick Evans