Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
We are very pleased to have two publications now available in our Slanted Shop from the Dutch publishing house Valiz: No School Manifesto & Wicked Arts Assignments. No School Manifesto — A Movement of Creative Education wants to open up the meaning of learning and fundamentally questions traditional education, through creativity. Curiosity, experimentation, unrestricted thinking, making, and developing—by yourself and...
The agency g31 in collaboration with Thanh-Thao Tran, Anna Fitzon, Stephanie Butzen, and Marie Volmar has designed the new branding for marine start up everwave: a start-up that develops sustainable solutions for global plastic pollution. When the everwave team approached g31, their name was Pacific Garbage Screening. The old name was based on CEO Marcella Hansch’s master’s thesis at RWTH...
Today we would like to introduce you to Parisian type foundry MA-MA Type, which has a special appreciation for the craft and artisan approach to type design: MA-MA Type is a small-scale type foundry based in Paris, France. It was founded in 2021 by Maxime Fittes as an open creative space allowing the making of singular fonts. The foundry believes...
Dedicated to the wanderlust, we would like to introduce you to a publication now available at our Slanted Shop, that takes a closer look at the complex infrastructures of our airports: Airport Wayfinding — Wayfinding Systems of 70 Airports. Airports are places with multi-layered identities that millions of people pass through and where cultures meet: On the one hand, the...
The wait is over: The winners of the global competition What Design Can Do (WDCD): No Waste Challenge — 16 Ground-Breaking Ideas for a Circular Future have been determined and were unveiled in a video ceremony attended by nominees and jury members. A total of sixteen winning projects were named across all categories, representing innovative strategies for reducing waste and...
Today, we would like to share the typeface Lexik by Binnenland Type Foundry and Thomas Hirter with you. Have you ever wondered what the vocabulary of a typeface is? From a designer’s point of view, it is the shapes which determine the character of a font. Typefaces don’t communicate with words, but instead are able to convey a message with their...
We are very excited about today’s release of INSTANT NUDES! For years, the collection of intimate instant photos of the creators of PHOTODARIUM Private, a tear-off calendar that brings together the most fascinating images of international photographers from around the world, has been growing. Now the archives are opening up and present a curated selection in this high-quality photo book. In...
Today, we would like to present you the photo book Paintings League by Max Siedentopf and invite you to visit the accompanying exhibition in the Galerie Kernweine in Stuttgart, Germany, which takes place from July 3rd to September 3rd, 2021. Paintings League seeks to answer the age-old question “How can you make art for people who don’t normally like art?”...
This year, we had the chance to participate online in the 26. Leipziger Typotage—Turn by Turn. Typography and Navigation, which took place in the Museum of the Printing Art in Leipzig from June 4th to 6th, 2021. The event presented the speakers’ findings and research to an interested group live and online. Particularly exciting was the variety of topics discussed...
schaubau 2021 is an international summer school which takes place in the heart of Dessau—the city of the Bauhaus. A design camp, which is targeted at all creative students, pupils, craftsmen and -women, and creators of value of all designing disciplines like design, architecture, fashion, and art. This year, the schaubau Summer School of Design is dedicated to the future....
For the 20th jubilee of 100 Beste Plakate e.V., we are delighted to present the 100 Beste Plakate 20 Catalog (100 best posters of 2020), which is now available at our Slanted Shop! For twenty years the association 100 Beste Plakate e.V. has been spotlighting the most groundbreaking poster designs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In its anniversary year, the group...
Once a year the approximately 900 students of Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (ABK Stuttgart) present their most recent projects and assignments during the Rundgang Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design 2021 which is taking place from July 23rd to 25th in a hybrid format. The official opening of the Rundgang is taking place on Friday, July...
