Snippets from the moodboard

For the design we took inspiration from multiple angles. We had a wide approach to the topic in our visual research: diving into anti-government facebook groups and into archives of the German yellow press. We also quickly discovered that visual artists in fine arts and in cinema had also adopted a similar aesthetic, using typefaces (both in print and in title design), that assosiations of covers of both “BILD” and “Spiegel”. Some of our early designs were inspired by the use of typography in Klaus Staeck’s posters and films of Alexander Kluge. 

Earlier versions of the key art