Leela Dutta illustrated and wrote the story »Die Nachwachtel" (The Night Quail) in the project »Ausgeschlafen(?)!« and received an award for it in the category »Illustration«. Her book is about a little night quail that sleeps together with other quails in the night quail forest. She wishes for nothing more than to stay awake all night to see the starry sky. To achieve this, she tries all kinds of concoctions and recipes against sleep - but do they really help? The book is expected to be published by Lucia Publishing later this year.

The work was supervised by Prof. Burkhart von Scheven and Masihne Rasuli.

The ADC jury also found the work »Drei Esel, Sizilien« (Three Donkeys, Sicily) by the designer trio Annika Daub, Hanna Hofmann and Simon Geistlinger worthy of an award in the »Editorial Design« category. Their book design goes back to a poem by the lyricist Jan Wagner, who often makes everyday observations of plants and animals the subject of his texts, which he narrates poetically as »breathtaking natural spectacles« (Deutschlandradio Kultur). His style is very associative - the poet jumps from observation to mythology, psychology, the history of mankind... The students made this linguistic style the basis of their design: the poem is told in a whole book, because every word and every punctuation mark gets a scientific footnote. These footnotes in turn get footnotes and so on until a dense web of associations and thought connections emerges, which is additionally staged typographically.

»Drei Esel, Sizilien« was created in the project »groSEs cHaOs« and was also supervised by Prof. Burkhart von Scheven and Masihne Rasuli.  

The students Leoni Hommel, Emily Grawitter, Johanna Mehner, Hannah Röbisch and Lina Unger scored points in the »Editorial Design« category. In a project, they and other course participants designed typefaces and were inspired by ideas and people from feminism. The main aim was to find out how broad the spectrum of feminism is and how typography and typeface design can be connected to and conveyed by the various feminisms. In the following semester, the five students designed the publication »Type & Feminisms«, which individually presents all 17 typefaces and concepts created. The publication was produced using screen printing and offset processes in the printing workshop of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

The students were supervised by Stefanie Schwarz, then junior professor for »Typography and Type Design«.