Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
In a sea of stylish wobbles and delicate swashes, Broker is the typographic equivalent of deciding to face the world raw and unfiltered. Broker is an angular variable display type family that invites carefree experimentation, but is designed to make a statement. With thirteen unique styles and variable controls for thickness, decoration, and shape, Broker is a versatile and expressive...
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to meet great designers from the local creative scene, among them Matti Klenell! Matti Klenell (born 1972) graduated from Konstfack, Stockholm in 1999. He founded his own studio that works with design commissions for clients such as Iittala, FontanaArte,...
Last week Alte Kongresshalle Munich was once again a place full of inspiration for the paper, printing, and design industries after a long wait due to the pandemic. All creators, print, and paper lovers were finally able to see and touch the papers at Creative Paper Conference 2022. What a wonderful thing to do! Not only more than 25 companies...
Every year the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. recognizes the most innovative and trendsetting poster designs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland in its annual awards. Its yearbook has become the established go-to source for graphic artists, designers, and advertisers. Even today, the traditional printed poster is still regarded as the ultimate challenge in the graphic arts. In the book...
What colors come to mind when you think of Finland? OnePlus mobile created the world’s first color palette for a country, together with Pantone to unveil True Colors of Finland, a story emblematic of this nordic utopia. What colors come to mind when you think of Finland? Sky blue, maybe? Snow white, perhaps? Forest green? OnePlus mobile, an international mobile...
This year, Designpreis Rheinland-Pfalz 2022 (Rhineland-Palatinate Design Competition) is about all areas of communication and media design. This call for entries is open to projects that have been created since 2020 in the following categories until August 4th, 2022: Corporate Design, Editorial Design, Digital Design, Illustration, Photography, Film & Motion Graphics, Spatial Design, Studies, and Research. Companies from all sectors,...
Work as we know it is changing. Even before Covid-19, the days when we’re held accountable to a nine-to-five office job were pretty much done. But what does it really take to set out on your own and build something new? The book Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier. is now available at the Slanted Shop! This book is a...
When visiting Stockholm in the summer of 2021, we took a close look at the contemporary design scene. We were happy to meet great designers from the local creative scene, among them Göran Söderström! Göran Söderström is a self taught type designer and the founder of Letters from Sweden. He has designed custom typefaces for companies such as Acne Studios,...
The designer and photographer Daniel Bretzmann edited his first photo book. The book Landing Hong Kong is a journey and it has taken some time to finish it. It all started with a trip to Hong Kong in 2007 and it turned out to be a much more personal and intensive project than he had thought at the beginning. The...
A magazine is like an open door that allows you to discover the world and break new ground—you always wanted to know how we make magazines at Slanted Publishers? Then this Domestika Course by Lars Harmsen, the co-founder and editor of Slanted Publishers is just perfect for you! Transforming and rendering fragments of reality through the subtle magic of color,...
We are happy to announce the release of our new book Simulation City, an artistic approach to the feeling of Dubai by Jason Carlow, Dirk Gebhardt, and Lars Harmsen. Dubai, in its newness, has redefined the notion of authenticity: city and spectacle have been intertwined. Mall culture, airports, and theme parks may seem strange and vacuous in other cities, but...
Pardon 4 × 4 is a carefully crafted handwriting font with a confident look. The approach is to give the impression that someone is writing while holding the pen with their toes. Paradoxically, this typeface is called Pardon. But actually Pardon would never be sorry, because it would like to be taken as it is. This typeface is intentionally a...
