Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
We are excited to announce that the Forward Online Festival 2022 will take place in March again. Slanted is offering one ticket for the Forward Online Festival. To take part in the lottery, please send an email with the subject “Forward Festival” to verlosung@slanted.de until March 2nd, 2022, 11 a.m. (UTC+1). Legal ways are excluded. By taking part you are...
Monospaced fonts are fascinating! Mono Moment is aimed at type designers typographers and designers, but also at people who are dealing with type design for the first time. This publication thus becomes a reference book and source of inspiration! Friedrich Nietzsche was probably one of the first to feel the aesthetic appeal of monospaced typefaces. Since he started writing with...
Get to know the Art Déco inspired typeface Classike by Emtype Foundry which adds an exclusive touch to your design. Classike is a high contrast squarish display typeface. Inspired by the Art Déco period from a modern perspective. Refined and elegant yet with a mechanical vibe, it is ideal for pairing with any functional font, it works especially well with...
The GfDg—Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (Society for the History of Design) invites you to participate in their Call for Papers for the competition Design für Spiel, Spaß, Spannung—Gestaltung von Artefakten zum spielerischen Handeln (Design for play, fun, excitement—designing artifacts for playful action). Design—understood as conception, shape and color, choice of materials as well as image and movement design—represents a significant factor...
The GfDg—Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (Society for the History of Design) invites you to participate in their Call for Papers for the competition Design für Spiel, Spaß, Spannung—Gestaltung von Artefakten zum spielerischen Handeln (Design for play, fun, excitement—designing artifacts for playful action). Design—understood as conception, shape and color, choice of materials as well as image and movement design—represents a significant factor...
Olivetti Identities by Davide Fornari and Davide Turrini presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project by ECAL and the University of Ferrara. This beautiful book analyzes the Olivetti phenomenon as a whole. Olivetti’s world-famous typewriters best embody the company’s industrial legacy and visible identity, which was both innovative and complex, material, and immaterial. These identities are at the heart...
illo.tv is a creative design studio based in Italy, which has created a motion design video series for nature.org exploring the things they can do to preserve the planet. Climate change represents one of humanity’s most pressing issues, but how do you manage to get that message across, while mixing science facts with an engaging and witty tone? illo.tv explored...
Today we would like to present you the book Off the Grid. This book has been edited by Sara De Bondt and gives us a brief overview about Belgian graphic design. Off the Grid offers a collaborative panorama of Belgian graphic design history from a multiplicity of perspectives, with essays on type design, colonization, and labour relations among other subjects....
The typeface Super Tramp by Vivian Dehning is a serif font, which pridefully takes up space with wide letterforms, generous tracking, and lively, multifaceted swashes. The idea behind the concept is to reflect diverse characters and identities as well as to encourage the dismantling of biases. With its round and smooth as well as angular and sharp shapes contrasts complement...
Students at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach have taken a close look at the type specimens in the Klingspor Museum. From March 12th to May 29th, 2022, the exhibition Beyond the Archive will show historical objects from the early 20th century from the Gebr. Klingspor’s archive. Offenbach was home to the Gebr. Klingspor, an internationally renowned type foundry that set...
On the Necessity of Gardening by Laurie Cluitmans tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. It is now available at Slanted Shop! For centuries, the garden has been regarded as a mirror of society, a microcosm, in which the broader relationships between nature and culture are played out on small scale. From this long cultural...
Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2022 starts now! The Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Design) invites you to participate in two of their competitions Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2022 (The Best German Book Design 2022) and Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2022 (Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design 2022). The deadline for both competitions is March 31st, 2022. Die Schönsten...
