+rosebud is a design magazine that operates with the desire to explore and exhaust the possibilities and potentials that paper and 2D-structure have to offer. The symbolic name, a derivation from the the last, mysterious word that the newspaper tycoon stammers out in Orson Welles' film classic "Citizen Kane," figuratively indicates that +rosebud is an attempt to explain the puzzle "medium"—keeping Welles' experimental spirit in mind.
"+rosebud blooms again"
Creative Review
Readership
+rosebud is read by the core of the creative community.
That is, by people who leave verifiable traces on and in this internationally active and networked scene.
By people, say, who give our consumer world its respective current look.
By people who are also devoted to the design of information.
By people whose creations make their mark and set landmarks.
By people, that is, whose design works are in part responsible for deciding what prevails and what was merely yesterday's flavor-of-the-week.
By people who not only buy, but also study, the design publications and so act as proliferators of what they have assimilated.
"+rosebud - a successor to Twen?"
Print+Produktion
Radius
Each +rosebud issue appears in a one-off, limited and numbered edition of 4000 copies.
"...individual, original, engaging and fascinating..."
Novum
Distribution
+rosebud is distributed worldwide through publishing house "Die Gestalten", Berlin: Since its founding in Berlin in 1995, Die Gestalten Verlag has published more than one hundred and fifty titles that document, present and anticipate vital design movements in graphic art, photography and visual culture for their own title list as well as corporate commissioned titles.
www.die-gestalten.de
"A top-line publication that could hardly be
any more colorful, more bizarre, more off-beat,
more conceptual and more critical."
Wiener
Awards
The content and visual and formal quality of +rosebud has been awarded with numerous international awards:
2006
Nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007
2005
Art Directors Club Germany, Award, category Magazine Design
Deutscher Designer Club: Bronze, category "The Good Piece"
Creativ Club Austria: Golden Venus, category Editorial Design
2004
Deutscher Designer Club (DDC): Award, category "The Good Piece"
2003
Creativ Club Austria: Golden Venus, category Editorial Design
Art Directors Club Germany, Gold Medal, category: Magazine Design
Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) Awards: Finalist category Design
2002
Art Directors Club Germany, Silver Medal, category: Magazine Design
red dot design award: communication design "High Design Quality"
Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) Awards: Finalist category Design
2001
Buchkunst Foundation: "One of Germany's Most Beautiful Books 2001" and Winner
of the Honorary Grant for Young German Book Designers 2001
Type Directors Club New York / TDC 48: Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2000
Art Directors Club Germany, Bronze Medal, category: Magazine Design
Type Directors Club New York / TDC 46: Certificate of Typographic Excellence
German Prize for Communication Design, "High Design Quality"
"...an hommage to Orson Welles and
things beautiful in general..."
Süddeutsche Zeitung
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