Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
The final and 4th Session TypeTechMeetUp with the Type, Design, and Society theme will take place on November 19th, 2021, starting at 4:30 p.m. (CET) for about 2.5 hours followed by a relaxing online Chill & Chat. View teaser here. For this final session we have the brilliant Fiona Ross together with renowned designer and researcher Alice Savoie, design educator...
The board members of the Junge Grafik association invested more than two years of preparation for this moment. “It is great to see everything come together tonight. The winners of Junge Grafik N°1 will be celebrated and will be able to meet and network with important people from the graphic design industry here on site. We have been working towards...
The Typodarium 2022—a classic among type calendars brings type inspiration day by day. 248 type designers from 35 countries all over the world show fresh fonts and trendy typefaces. Fancy fonts, long-lasting reading fonts and noble ornamental fonts. There is something for every taste and every occasion! The robust box in which the Typodarium 2022 is packaged is a treasure...
The books of the Wochenender series are companions for trips and short getaways to great areas that are not far from the big cities. Shown are wonderful places, shops, stores, and places to stay. For a weekend or longer, at any time of the year. The idea for the Wochenender was developed over many years in the mind of Elisabeth...
Among other things, design is always performance. The Medienhaus Lectures 2021 take a look at performance in design beyond the moment of presentation. Type, color, materiality, etc. are design elements that have their own performativity. The same is true for the human body. So could the design process be considered a performance? How diverse are the bodies involved? How differentiated...
With the month of November, we want to introduce you to our new Typeface of the Month: Everett Mono. The monospace version of the already very well developed Everett from the Swiss type foundry TYPE.WELTKERN®. A monospace version of Everett has always been part of the project, since its very beginning in 2015. At this point, only the Mono Regular...
The Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021 is the world’s most important book fair, as well as an outstanding social and cultural event. This year it could finally take place again with an audience. We visited the book fair to get an idea of the latest trends and publications from the world of design books. Among them were the award-winning publications of the...
For anyone for whom the digital Film Festival Cologne is not enough, the matching print magazine Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder is now available in Slanted Shop! Die Macht der Bilder (engl. The Power of Images) is the common thread running through the program of this year’s FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE. The festival with its film screenings, the supporting program,...
With great “pleasure” we would like to introduce you to the newly released typeface Pleasure by Pizza Typefaces. The Pleasure font is almost a running grotesque font. However, its geometric shapes did not resist the urge to be led, for certain letters, to an extrapolation of the terminals by converting them into loops. A characteristic that gives the typeface an...
Joan Miro said: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Ultimately, Slanted Magazine #38—Colours is an ode to the joy and happiness of life with all its gradations of symbolism and meaningful implications. Color is more than just fashion. It is a statement for an entire era! In the spring of 2021,...
If you are interested in processes, artistic work, design, and its place within production this book is a perfect fit! Through experiments, “design therapy” and alternative methods, the book The Kinship Method tells the story about the experimental design project The Kinship Method, that took place 2018 to 2019. It’s a story and example of how a practice based project...
Frankfurt Airport, April 2020 is a book that captures the surreal time in the pandemic year 2020 and takes an unusual look at Frankfurt Airport in a state of exception. At Frankfurt Airport, up to seven million people a month embarked on their journeys before Corona. Photographer Marc Krause documented the empty airport at the height of the lockdown in...
