Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
This year, the Executive Board and the active team of the tgm (Typografische Gesellschaft München) will once again present their ambitious training program, the motto of which is: THE MAKING OF—MAKE IT WORK! A professional mix of up-to-date expert lectures, seminars, and workshops, enriched by excursions, art, and related activities. Around 1,000 members now belong to the tgm community. Guests...
Today we’d like to introduce you to The End of My Beginning, the first full-length monograph of artist Jamal Cyrus. As the first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus, The End of My Beginning features an overview of Cyrus’ practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African diaspora, Middle Passage,...
The Tag der Schrift 2022 is an annual joint educational event organized by the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich and the syndicom trade union (visual communication sector). Tobias Rechsteiner, Chris Campe, Jan Fromm, Samara Keller, and Rudolf Barmettler will give talks and lead workshops. Slanted raffles a ticket for the whole day + a workshop of your choice including lunch! To...
The German publishing house form just published Typohacks by Hannah Witte, the first guide for gender-sensitive typography in the German language. As this is a huge topic right now in Germany, we’re very proud to finally present this book in its final form. Funded by a highly successful crowdfunding campaign in 2021, the book has already found a lot of...
The German publishing house form just published Typohacks by Hannah Witte, the first guide for gender-sensitive typography in the German language. As this is a huge topic right now in Germany, we’re very proud to finally present this book in its final form. Funded by a highly successful crowdfunding campaign in 2021, the book has already found a lot of...
We would like you to join the initiative called 33 Letters for Ukraine. It’s a spontaneous and independent event inspired by 36 Days of Type, where 33 letters of the Ukrainian alphabet will be drawn starting Monday, 7th of March. The project wants to use the power of the design community to express solidarity with Ukraine, show that it is...
We have received an open letter from Russian creatives, designers, and illustrators, whose names are not known, which they addressed to their government. The lines touch us, because they express a deep love for their profession—and make clear what remains of it when one’s own country goes to war. As designers and illustrators, they say, they learned “to be understanding...
Klasse Klima of UDK Berlin invites you to join the digital symposium Re: New European Bauhaus. For A Just Design of Climate Politics which will navigate critical perspectives on the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus. The virtual program of talks, discussions, and workshops of Re: New European Bauhaus aims to explore institutional, artistic, and designerly strategies to...
Klasse Klima of UDK Berlin invites you to join the digital symposium Re: New European Bauhaus. For A Just Design of Climate Politics which will navigate critical perspectives on the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus. The virtual program of talks, discussions, and workshops of Re: New European Bauhaus aims to explore institutional, artistic, and designerly strategies to...
Siebdruck Zu Hause & Frische Luft by Pippa Parragh and Sebastian Jung have been published at Verlag Hermann Schmidt. Both books are now available at Slanted Shop! In Siebdruck Zu Hause Pippa Parragh shows us how the dream of an own atelier can come true! You want to print artistic short runs on many and different materials such as paper,...
You can almost smell the spring already. March is here and with it a new inspiring Typeface of the Month: Lausanne Pan. Lausanne is an extraordinarily sophisticated sans serif font with an ultra-organic aesthetic, very legible in small sizes, and full of refined details in display sizes. The typeface was proudly designed in Switzerland by Nizar Kazan and his team...
The 27. Leipziger Typotage 2022—Typography and Movement will take place in Leipzig in the Museum für Druckkunst on May 14th. The world is in motion and so is typography. Text design is becoming more and more dynamic, output media more diverse, the possibilities of allowing typefaces to emerge from their static appearance are increasing. Variable fonts and dynamic type design...
