The first issue of Designum 2025 opens with the Current Affairs section with an interview by Matúš Buranovský with Filip Birkner, who currently lives and works in the USA. This is followed by an interview by Dávid Gabera with Veronika Kurcinová, who, together with Adam Zakucia, received a nomination in the Student Design category and the Public Award for the school newspaper FUTURE. Barbora Šajgalíková is a graphic designer whose competitive works were presented at the National Design Award exhibition, although they were not among the winners. However, they became the impetus for an interview prepared by Silvia Kružliaková. Juraj Závodný belongs to a group of architects who perceive their work as a complex activity. He designs houses, interiors, draws brilliantly and produces furniture solitaires. This is precisely what Katarína Hubová’s article is aimed at. The curators of the 28th Ljubljana Biennial chose floriography, which reveals the meanings hidden in flowers, as the theme.

Jozef Eduard Masarik writes about the exhibition concept that invites viewers to abandon their stereotypes of understanding design and think about design from a feminist, gender, decolonial perspective. The title of the article Jáááj, so this I would not have thought of! by Miroslav Debnár hides a reflection on the student exhibition project DESIGN x HOBBY, which indirectly responds to the often contradictory aesthetic value, quality and sometimes even the very meaning of the creations of enthusiastic amateurs. His ambition was to elevate DIY to a new level. In the Museums section, Júlia Deáková focuses on Jozef Vachálek’s work for public spaces, which is the result of collaboration with many architectural teams. Finally, the last article in the Theoretical section belongs to architectural psychologist Michal Matloň, who writes about emotional sustainability and ponders the question: Why design buildings that are easy to fall in love with?

In cooperation with the Typo/Typolab studio of the Academy of Fine Arts, we continue to present student headline fonts. This time it is the variable font Queenz by Tomáš Paulen.