Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools explores the instruments shaping contemporary creative practice. Through interviews, articles, and numerous examples from graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding, the issue looks at how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself. In February 2026, Antonin Waterkeyn, recommended by Dominik Levitski, founder of FontBase, shared his...
Following the success of the first three editions, Slanted Experimental Type 4.0 continues the series’ exploration of innovative approaches in typography and graphic design. The new edition was created in collaboration with students from Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, led by Prof. Lars Harmsen and Andreas Ruhe, and presents entirely new content that pushes creative boundaries. The publication...
Calling all printmakers, illustrators, book artists, photographers, designers, collectives, independent publishers and print enthusiasts: be part of PAPER PRINT FESTIVAL 2026 in Bochum, Germany! We are looking for exciting contemporary positions across the world of print: printmaking, screen printing, risograph, linocut, woodcut, etching, lithography, monotype, artist books, zines, independent publishing, editions, fine art prints, typography, experimental techniques and hybrid or...
Ten years of feminist perspectives on type design, research, and community-building come together in Alphabettes Soup, published by Bikini Books. The book brings together selected articles from the Alphabettes platform with new essays, interviews, visual histories, and reflections on projects and initiatives from the past decade. Its contributions look at type through different perspectives, connecting questions of culture, language, technology,...
The Forward Festival Berlin 2026 once again turned Haus der Kulturen der Welt into a temporary creative campus. On August 27th and 28th, three stages brought together more than 50 international creative voices for two days of talks, workshops, and side events under the theme “Turn Ideas into Action”. Among the many highlights, Vera van de Seyp and holy motors...
Captcha is a design festival for watching, participating, and discussing. For everyone who wants to understand design not just as a finished product, but as an ongoing process. From September 14 to 21, 2026, students from the Faculty of Design at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences will host the Captcha Design Festival, this year in cooperation with the City of...
Mix Interiors, the leading UK title for commercial interior design and architecture, published bi-monthly since 2000, has been given a full editorial redesign. The project reworks the magazine’s covers, typography and grid while keeping the signature features that have defined it for more than two decades. In the redesign, three key editorial elements are playfully responsive to content: headers, colour...
This year, Poster Safari returns for its fourth edition in Zurich’s District 5. In a place where commercial messages usually dominate the urban landscape, 20 designers take over large-scale advertising billboards, transforming them with their own interpretations of this year’s theme, OUT OF…, into animated visual statements. By scanning the posters with the smartphone, visitors can experience them in augmented...
On October 1–2, 2026, Forward returns to Vienna’s Gartenbaukino for two days of ideas, exchange, and creative energy. More than 1,500 creatives are expected, with 25+ talks exploring different approaches to making, thinking, and working creatively. Since 2015, Forward Festival has brought together international voices from graphic design, art, photography, advertising, technology, and beyond. What started in Vienna has grown...
What can typography do beyond communicating words? Fight for Kindness 2026 explores how letters and visual messages can create connection, encourage empathy, and contribute to positive change. Initiated by TypeCampus and supported by Zetafonts Foundry, the project brings together designers from around the world who share one idea: using creativity to help shape a kinder and more inclusive society. Now...
How can typography help children learn to write—both on paper and in an increasingly digital learning environment? With KkomKkom, VISANG has developed a typeface specifically designed around children’s motor skills and natural writing movements. Its clear and functional approach earned the typeface a Gold Award from the jury. We talked to the VISANG team about the research behind KkomKkom, its...
When I first visited South Korea in 2022, I was walking unsuspectingly through Gangnam when I entered a store and suddenly found myself standing in front of a horse whose tail was twitching as though it were trying to swat away flies. The store belonged to the perfume brand Tamburins. What on earth was a horse, whose smell one would...
