Bild Zeit Schrift

FLIP THROUGH THE PAST 100 years - one magazine at a time.

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Project Overview

Introducing Bild Zeit Schrift, an online archive brought to life to house more than 50,000 magazine covers. This ambitious endeavor came with a comprehensive list of requirements: create an engaging website design with a seamless user experience, develop an API to connect the plethora of magazine covers to a database, set up an advanced filter for easy navigation, and finally, integrate a checkout system for the purchase of these coveted magazines.

Project Details

Type

Brand Design & Digital

Services

Copywriting

Digital Strategy

User Experience

Web Design

Development

Motion Design

Photography

The Challenge

Bild Zeit Schrift represented a fascinating challenge from its inception. Our client, Christof Doboczky, a life-long magazine collector, envisioned this platform not only as a showcase for his vast collection, but also as a research tool for educational institutions. One of the core challenges lay in hosting an impressive 50,000+ digitized magazine covers without hampering the website's performance. Additionally, we had to craft an app to enable Christof to effortlessly upload the magazine images while simultaneously extracting the metadata required for the filter function. Creating this complex filter, which would be intuitive for both in-depth researchers and casual explorers, presented an intriguing puzzle.

Image of a macbook standing on a brown surface. The screen is showing the archive page of the website we created. The page is showing randomly sorted magazine covers of german magazines.

100 years of magazines

Screenshot of the archive with the complex filter we built. The filter is opened and slides in from the right. It shows all the categories that the magazines can be filtered by. The background of the website is light beige, there are 4 magazines per row which are sorted randomly. The background of the image itself has a blurry image of a shelf with books and magazines in it.

Custom photography of a bunch of old magazines in a shelf sorted by decade. The decades are written on a small piece of white paper that separates the magazines.

Photo of colorful magazines that are upright in a white shelf.

What We Did

Without a pre-existing brand design, we began from the ground up. We established a distinct brand identity that not only incorporated a logo system, color palettes, typography, and custom icons, but also set the visual strategy for the subsequent website design. With the branding in place, we plunged into the website design, focusing on integrating interactive elements to keep users engaged throughout their journey.

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In tandem, we engineered an API that connected two external databases to the website - one hosting the images and the other, the metadata for the filter. To streamline the process for Christof, we developed an app facilitating rapid and hassle-free uploading.

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The result is the immersive Bild Zeit Schrift platform that offers a visual tour through the past 100 years of magazine history across countless categories. Beyond just a testament to Christof's enduring passion for magazine collecting, the website serves as an engaging exploration tool and valuable research resource, inviting users to discover and delve into the captivating world of magazines. The joy of exploration, coupled with the opportunity to own a piece of this unique collection, makes Bild Zeit Schrift a testament to the power of design and technology coming together.

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a person holding a magazine that shows an old magazine and some information about the magazine inside.

Custom photography of the space the magazines are stored in. The photo shows an old round wooden table photographed angled from above. On the concrete floor is the shadow of the window where the sun is shining through.

Macbook on a beige stone floor. The screen is showing the magazine of the day on the landing page of the website. The magazine cover of the day shows a woman holding a black cat in black and white photography.

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