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Filmedition Suhrkamp was launched in 2008. “Suhrkamp doesn’t publish books; it publishes authors,” once proclaimed Siegfried Unseld, director of the firm from 1959 until 2000. As if following the credo, Filmedition Suhrkamp publishes work of important filmmakers on DVD. The design system of the series—including the packaging and the interface screens—by Nina Vöge and Alexander Stublic inherits and updates the vocabulary established by Fleckhaus for the Editions Suhrkamp. A similar “rainbow” color system is used. There are rules, too, but here they are semicircular, reflecting the shape and the movement of DVD. Appropriately to the medium, the Garamond type has been replaced by a sans-serif (Corporate S by Kurt Weidemann), but there is still a gentle, humanist touch to it (the slightly open counters, circular dots, two-story g’s). It does not simply mimic the celebrated template: it creates a parallel rainbow, for the medium of light, in dialogue with the predecessor.
