“Precocious” (Frühreif) is the theme of this B&G-issue. Contributor Harri Brill said: “This new issue is my favorite of the whole series: Nice thing with handy paper and scraggy fibre. Then the little numbers (nice typography) - precocious …

… my eyes are calling for glasses. Strong pictures and cocky texts, laconic drawings; everything very sensual and a little bit of a summerwine.” The issue was hand-sewn by Rita Zepf. The other contributers are: Katharina Viorica Berndt, Sibylle Blaumann, Harri Brill, Gerd Brunzema, Helmut Buttke, Sarmina Ferhad, Sylee Gore, Simone Gülde, Fred Hüning, Wolf Klein, Kai von Kröcher, Calin Kruse, Jörn Lauterbach, Andreas Praetsch, Rattelschneck, S-agitterre, Gianna Schade, Rebecca Silus, Jo Spittler, Johanna L. Wange, Cornelia Weber and Michael Zander.

Facts & Figures
Mission Statement: Balkon & Garten is a non-commercial, user-generated magazine about nature and culture. For each issue, readers are invited to contribute images and texts on a new theme. These reader-contributors include visual artists, designers, gardeners, musicians and writers, investigating the human longing for nature that persists in our modern world. The design changes every issue.
Founded: May 2004, by Anke Wulffen
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Editors / Designers: Anke Wulffen, with occasional guest designers
Periodicity: Bimonthly
Language: German
Format: Din A5, full color, 28 to 32 pages
Circulation: 150 hand-sewn, numbered copies
Price: 5 €
Web: balkon-garten.de
Contact: redaktion (at) balkon-garten.de

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