Graphic design uses visual compositions to solve problems and communicate ideas through typography, imagery, color, and form. It is an evermore exchange of visual design tools—and most importantly—of knowledge. Though there’s no delimitation, each type of graphic design requires specific set of skills and design techniques, whether if you want to specialize yourself and go deep into one discipline or...
Typeface of the Month: Sukhumvit Tadmai
Today it is time again to discover the contemporary world of type design. We are proud to present our new Typeface of the Month: Sukhumvit Tadmai by the Thai Type Foundry Cadson Demak. Sukhumvit Tadmai, developed from Sukhumvit, is a typeface that embodies simplicity. It is known for its versatile nature, designed for optimal flexibility in modern communications. In this version,...
Petite Passport Magazine #02
It isn’t exactly the right time to launch a travel and design magazine. Europe is slowly turning into an orange zone again, face masks and self-quarantine have become a habit. But on the other side, after all we’re waiting to get out, to dream about places we like to go and to make plans to travel again. Petite Passport Magazine...
Linguhacks / Typohacks
The topic of gender-sensitive language for designers and in design discourses often still represents a major challenge. Even these days we are lacking a fair and sensitive understanding for non binary typography and language. Linguhacks / Typohacks is a book showing an approach of gender-sensitive language and typography. It deals with hacking methods for a non-binary use of typography in...
Black Friday Deal: 40% discount on all Slanted back issues + special editions
Complete your library of Slanted magazines with our Black Friday Deal! 40% discount on all issues + special editions (#35 and earlier) til end of Friday (27.11.20, UTC +1) with discount code THISFUNKYFRIDAY at Slanted Shop! SHOP NOW! Der Beitrag Black Friday Deal: 40% discount on all Slanted back issues + special editions erschien zuerst auf slanted....
New and Freshly Printed Publications by POOL Publishing
While switching through the news, we have some good ones for you today. Slanted Shop has refilled its shelves with some brand-new freshly printed POOL Publishing’s publications. We present you two books, a calendar, and one post card set, which put a smile on one’s face in those times. Lost Spring 2020 was—and still is—a strange year. Starting off as...
Slanted in L.A.: Jeffery Keedy
In a town like L.A. and on a production like Slanted’s, which brings together the material for a magazine, not everything has to work out. Often, the best things happen when they’re not planned, just as they did when we went to this gleaming city in fall 2019. We were happy to meet the luminaries from the local creative scene...
Typ/o
Most typefaces can be classified into one of four basic groups: those with serifs, those without serifs, scripts, and decorative styles. Over the years, typographers and scholars of typography have developed various systems to define those categories, subsequently some of these systems have scores of sub-categories. In order to bring light into the typographical maze, to make classifications possible for...
Wolfgang Tillmans. four books.
The works of photographer Wolfgang Tillmans have always had a unique visual language that shapes our perception of the world. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of TASCHEN, where he has already published four books in the course of his career, the book Wolfgang Tillmans. four books. has now been published, which presents overlapping perspectives from his previous books...
Secret Societies
Attention to detail and creative design, with that certain something that makes a print publication special today—Secret Societies invites you to take a trip to New York at the beginning of the last century and immerse yourself in its pages. Much is popularized of the Mafia in film, literature, music, and urban legend. Some stories are inspired by and respectful...
Arcade Game Typography
It’s been a while since I listened to Toshi Omagari’s talk at TYPO Berlin about his research on 8 pixel fonts. Growing up with video games, there are of course many fond memories of the colorful letters flickering animatedly across the screen telling us WON or GAME OVER. It was only a few years ago that Toshi came across the...
Neuwerk #7
Neuwerk #7 magazine has just been published by the MA students of design studies at Burg Giebichenstein at a time when each of us is more than ever concerned about the topic of the current issue. Neuwerk #7 deals with contact in terms of design, because: Design creates contact. According to Gui Bonsiepe—a german designer and theorist—by linking an acting...