I Heart Blogs

Kai of the German design and life-style blog StyleSpion started a little campaign to make bloggers themselves publish short lists of their most favourite and inspiring German language blogs (see Kai's list). Thereby new interesting sources besides the usual suspects and beyond one's own nose are supposed to be presented as part of the multifaceted German blogosphere. Of course it tastes a bit of self-referentialty again because it's an initiative by bloggers for bloggers. But who cares? We love writing stuff as well as we love reading it.

Markus of roitsch.info and me – who are native Germans but blog in English language – found ourselves in the situation of a kind of fringe group among German bloggers. So we decided to take part nevertheless and also to comprise English language blogs by German or Germany-based authors. So here we go:

a better tomorrow

From Düsseldorf, Germany to the world: The blog of the correspondent t-shirt and streetwear community.

basquiat's lovely winter riot

My Mannheim-based brother's blog on all the stuff he's affected by: photography, politics (especially questions of data privacy protection and copyright law) and all the things a Netzkind is into – but in an always questioning way.

BerlinDesignBlog

A design blog on the Berlin design scene. Just to keep somewhat up-to-date about the design-related things that happen in my beloved future home.

dersven.de

Sven Lubenau, graphic and web designer living in Berlin, posts mainly on typography but also on other design-related topics and geek stuff.

kopfbunt

Also as as a designer in Berlin freelancing web designer Malte Christensen is blogging on graphic design and beyond.

Papierbotschaft

A great German blog by the guys of TYPOSITION based in Offenbach on the aspects of materiality and finishing in print production.

rebel:art

Alain Bieber brings together art and activism. For a half of a decade rebel:art now is an international medium and network for culture jammer, Adbuster, Hacktivists and net activists, street artists and street vandals, post-dadaists and retro-neoists, notoric nags & subversive trouble maker.

roitsch.info

The blog of Hamburg-based Markus Reuters claiming «better taste than sorry». In his blog he focuses on topics like design, visualizations, observations of daily life, ideas or music and much more.

Studio5555

Again: Typography, design and everything that's beautiful – that's what Ulm-based Philipp Thom writes about in his blog.

today and tomorrow

Pieter, a Belgian living in Berlin, collects things that he likes, some are beautiful others just funny or faits-divers. The most frequent topics are advertising, art, design, fashion, music and sneakers.