ִ ࣪𖤐.ᐟ After our 10-year throwback, we warmly welcome you to the new year 2026 with our beloved newsletter.
Those who were already signed up received our Hot Mail just before the holidays. The past ten years were filled with click-c-c-c-c-c-c, Bellevues, taking "Positionen", and sparking ideas. Ten years. For real, for real.
Here is a small selection of current projects we’re immersed in right now – glow-ups, liaisons, and diversions included.
The Villa Aurora • Thomas Mann House also celebrated an anniversary: marking 30 years with the "Kunst für die Stadt" (Art for the City) exhibitions. There was another round of funky music festivals with the Projektbüro Kultur Nürnberg. While this collaboration only began recently, another colourful chapter came to an end: our long-standing work with Künstler:innenhaus Bremen – though the identity we developed will remain.
If you’d like to see how we use typography as a thermometer, bricks as… bricks, and how we intervene in the arts, follow our newsletter at eepurl.com/hm1jGn or via the link in our bio ❤️🔥
Thank you to everyone who came along for the ride. A big thank you to all our clients and collaborators for your trust and inspiring projects, and to our design family, and friends! Your presence matters.
Happy new year and warm wishes
Ann, Pia, Vreni, Sarah, Mara
and the entire team at Studio Pandan ‧₊ ˚⊹.☘︎ ݁
🤳2: Lukas Zitzer. All others: Studio Pandan
🍎How does human-made climate change affect our lives and our environment – and what can we do about it? The art tour ‘New Ecologies’ in Chemnitz was showing 21 perspectives that combined art and climate and offered new food for thought. 🍏 Our web app brings the exciting public art walk into the digital world.
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@kunstsammlungen.chemnitz
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Design: Studio Pandan
Development: Tom Bauer, click.ink
Team New Ecologies: Anja Richter @rethcirajna , Florian Matzner, @carolinnitsche , Luca Daberto @co_producing , @sandy__becker
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#newecologies #chemnitz #publicart #climatechange #studiopandan #graphicdesign #webdesign
Enter the mine! ⛏📸 You can still see “Mining Photography – the ecological footprint of image production“ @mkghamburg until end of October. Curated by Esther Ruelfs & @boazmlevin .
Ever since its invention, photography has depended on the global extraction and exploitation of so-called natural resources.
Deep digging has been and is being done and in the show there can be explored so many interesting contemporary and historical works and connections and interferences.
1000 thanks for the wonderful cooperation with Esther Ruelfs, Boaz Levin, Sven Schumacher, Thomas Jehle, Philipp Hartmann & Silke Oldenburg.
Curators: Dr. Esther Ruelfs & Boaz Levin
Exhibition architecture: Thomas Jehle, Vienna
Visual Identity: Studio Pandan
Fonts: Antarctica @newglyph + Suisse Works @swisstypefaces
Photos 1, 4, 7, 9: Henning Rogge
#climatechange #photographylovers #visualidentity #blackandwhite #graphicgang #photooftheday
“This entwinement of landscape and time is, I think, at the heart of Som’s art.”
- Kevin Chua
Accompanying the exhibition is a complimentary leaflet, designed in the style of historical maps, featuring “The War Chiang Mai Forgot,” a text by historian Dr. Kevin Chua that contextualizes the region’s complex history, alongside Som Supaparinya’s personal reflections on the creation of the new work *Melted Stars*.
Pick up a copy during your visit and take it home ✨
Melted Stars
With works by @somsupaparinya
Tue-Sun, 12-7pm
daadgalerie
Curated by @natalie.keppler
Design: @studiopandan
Photo credits:
1. Eunice Maurice
2 - 3. Melted Stars leaflet / BKP Team
4. Som Supaparinya holding the leaflet as she sees it for the first time during the mounting of the exhibition / BKP Team
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Next up at daadgalerie ⭐️⭐️⭐️
We are pleased to present the first solo-exhibition in Berlin by 2021/22 Visual Arts Fellow Som Supaparinya, Melted Stars.
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SAVE THE DATE
Exhibition Opening
April 23, 6 PM
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Who decides which histories are remembered—and which are covered up?
The new video installation Melted Stars which will premiere at daadgalerie, journeys through the shifting terrains of northern Thailand and its neighboring regions. In Supaparinya’s long-term audiovisual research project, begun in 2016, the northern Thailand–born artist uncovers Thailand’s complex and often suppressed entanglement with Japan during World War II. Through filmed observations, fieldwork, interviews, and archival traces, the work reveals how infrastructures were used while stories fade, linger, or are deliberately erased.
Melted Stars invites to look closer: at the landscapes, at memory, and at the fragile ways histories are carried forward—or left behind.
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Som Supaparinya: Melted Stars
@somsupaparinya
Curated by Natalie Keppler @natalie.keppler
Produced by Raisa Galofre @raisa.galofre
Design: @studiopandan
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Opening: April 23, 2026, 6 PM
Exhibition runtime: April 24 — June 7, 2026
📍daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10969 Berlin
Free Entry
All welcome
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Neue Kooperation zwischen Weiter Schreiben Leipzig und der Edit (@editmagazine ) 🎉
In der Frühjahrsausgabe der Literaturzeitschrift werden von nun an regelmäßig Texte von Autor*innen aus dem Weiter Schreiben Netzwerk veröffentlicht. Den Auftakt macht in diesem Jahr der Text „Kleine Details” von Rabab Haidar (@irababhaidar ), übersetzt von der Künstlerischen Leiterin von Weiter Schreiben Leipzig, Maria Hummitzsch (@mariahummitzsch ). Wir freuen uns sehr auf die langfristige Zusammenarbeit!
Die neue Ausgabe der Edit erscheint zur Leipziger Buchmesse. Besorgt euch das Heft, lest Rababs Text - oder kommt zur Release-Lesung am 17.03. im Café Simmini in Leipzig! ☺️
@studiopandan
#EditLiteraturzeitschrift#Prosa#Lyrik#Essay
@studiopandan is a Berlin-based design studio founded by @ann.richter.ann and @piachristmann3000 . With a background rooted in conceptual thinking and graphic design, the studio develops identity systems, publications, and digital experiences that combine clarity with unexpected, playful elements and witty typography. Their research-driven approach treats each project as an open dialogue, focusing on design as a living process that can reveal new perspectives and create lasting connections. Studio Pandan believes in design as a magic mirror—reflecting clients‘ intentions while offering space for curiosity and discovery. Currently, the team focuses on collaborations across cultural and commercial fields, aiming to craft thoughtful, tailored solutions that resonate beyond trends and surface impressions.
All images and their prompts are featured in Spells Volume II.
2015–2025
10 Years of Studio Pandan
From potato-print shirts to polished team shots. Thanks for being on this journey with us! <3
#10years #trend #studiopandan
2015: Ann & Pia at the opening of „Sublime Eroding“ at W139, Amsterdam.
2016: Studio Pandan portfolio scarfs.
2017: New Year’s self promo flyer with a portrait by Nora Heinisch and Tobias Willmann.
2018: Moving into our new studio space in Berlin Kreuzberg.
2019: Article about our studio practice by Louise Benson at Elephant.
2020: Show & Tell lecture at Handsiebdruckerei.
2021: Team bags made from our flags at Balade Berlin. F.l.t.r.: Pia, Tereza, Vreni, Sibel, Ann
2022: Before our book presentation at Kunsthalle Bielefeld with Toni.
2023: Studio after work picnic. F.l.t.r.: August, Riccardo, Pia, Marie, Vreni
2024: Christmas party with the crew.
2025: Team portrait, shot by Robert Hamacher.
Photos: 2015, 2016, 2018: Serge Rompza / 2017, 2023: Ann Richter / 2019: Louise Benson / 2020: Ferdinand Ulrich / 2021: Dominik Krauss / 2022: Charlotte Rohde / 2024: Lena Zimmermann
Our design for the live program at Gropius Bau: „Spätschicht“ ✨🪽 One evening each month, a space full of interdisciplinary surprises opens up: talks, film screenings, concerts, DJ sets. Free and open to everyone! Each edition is created in collaboration with an institution, a collective, or artists.
Don’t miss tonight (7–10 PM): Spätschicht x Ligia Lewis @ligiamlewis 🖤
Thank you for the amazing collaboration! @noralmes@gropiusbau
#Spätschicht #GropiusBau #liveprogram #art #berlinevents #studiopandan #angel
Kunst für die Stadt — Art for the City ⚫️ Across five Berlin locations, you can see at the moment works by former Villa Aurora Fellows unfold in dialogue with the urban space — by Wiebke Loeper, Edgar & Zora Arceneaux, Janine Eggert, Lukas Glinkowski, and Erik Goengrich.
The first part, shown in spring, featured Anna Haifisch, Siska, Ulu Braun, Paul Hutchinson, Werner Amann, and Karin Apollonia Müller.
Many thanks for the wonderful collaboration with @villaaurorala celebrating 30 years. 🌴
Graphic design by us #studiopandan / Photos: Lukas Zitzer @0riginalcontent
