Cyan

Recent articles about Cyan

A graphic haven in the heart of Berlin

Issue 55, Spring 2005

Review

Presentations … covered a panoramic, inspirational collection of work and ranged in delivery from humble, mumbly, apologetic and stern, to the cocky, passionate, witty and evangelical.

Overprinting

Issue 47, Spring 2003

Feature

Statistics, expression, economy and a tactile display of the passage of time

Cyan [extract]

Issue 17, Summer 1995

Feature

Form + Zweck, the Berlin design magazine, champions a critical Modernism. By refusing to compromise, its designers, Cyan, have created their own context

Recent blog posts about Cyan

Graphic design live #21

9 September 2025
Graphic design, Posters, Events and exhibitions

Between Books, Type Tuesday, Pontus Hultén in Paris, Novo Typo Offgrid, Cyan and Karel Martens: Unbound

Read the Eye Events page to stay up to date with exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops … and book for Type Tuesday

Rigorous play

1 January 2021
Graphic design, Posters, Technology, Visual culture

For almost three decades East Berlin duo Cyan has produced urgent, experimental yet precise graphic design. Jan Middendorp meets them while the city sleeps
Like all design studios, Berlin’s Cyan has gone through a very unusual year, writes Jan…