New Platforms – a one day festival at Beckmans

The current state of established digital platforms and its influence on visual communication is under scrutiny by us as students, teachers and human beings. Because frankly, we’re disappointed with the current state of affairs.

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Welcome to Beckmans College of Design on October 18th 2025, tickets are for sale N O W !
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Full price: 350 SEK

Inter/national speakers

By inviting some of the most interesting practitioners in our field, we want to show alternatives and new possibilities, add some fun yet seriousness to a topic so big and difficult it might feel overwhelming.

Laurenz Brunner / Source Type
Zürich (CH)

Source Type is a collective, a platform, a proposal, a resource, a publisher, a type foundry, an index, a tool, a collection, a library, a workshop, a portal, a map, a mixtape, a classroom, a conspiracy, a speculation, a window, a dialogue, a beginning.” In short, Source Type is a platform for typographic research and visual literacy, active since 2022..

Source Type was launched in 2022 by renowned type and graphic designer Laurenz Brunner. Laurenz is known for his type and graphic design for clients like Schauspielhaus Zurich and Studio Barnhus and his many typefaces such as Akkurat and LL Bradford. In Sweden, he is maybe most known for the typeface Circular, used by everyone from Spotify to the Swedish Government. His work explores the balance between alternative and pop culture, concept and improvisation, art history and science fiction.

Elliot Cost / Internet Phone Book
Rotterdam (NL)

Elliott Cost is a computer artist and organizer. He tends to the Special Fish, HTML Energy, and various other poetic websites. He is part of Extra Practice, a space for working and learning in the North of Rotterdam.

Most recently he initiated the Internet Phone Book with Kristoffer Tjavle, an annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. The (phone) book will have its Scandinavian launch at NEW PLATFORMS.

Vera van de Seyp
New York (US) / Amsterdam (NL)

Vera van de Seyp is a computational designer and educator. Her work explores generative design tools, computational typography, and using artificial intelligence for design. She has collaborated with clients like WIRED, Serpentine Galleries London, and Google Arts and Culture. She also teaches and gives workshops and lectures to inspire creatives to make (and code) their own design tools. Vera completed a Research Assistantship with the Future Sketches group at MIT Media Lab.

Projects include, but are not limited to, playful websites, generative language installations, perpetually morphing typefaces, typographic tools, creative coding festivals, a blank map, and textiles made with a hacked knitting machine.

Munnen
Stockholm (SWE)

Munnen (The Mouth) is a miniature culture house for art, publishing, food, listening and collective making based on Byälvsvägen 18 in Bagarmossen, Stockholm, Sweden. Munnen is free and open for everyone! Munnen is a cultural space in Bagarmossen, Stockholm, dedicated to collective creation through art, reading, radio, food, and events. It serves as both venue and platform for exchange, hosting Läsrum (a reading room), Tungan Radio, and participatory programs that foster dialogue, listening, and community around cultural practices.