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Making Of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

Coming Soon Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is currently in production—a visual journey into the vibrant heart of Egypt’s contemporary design scene! The issue dives deep into the country’s creative pulse, revealing just how diverse, innovative, and powerful Egypt’s design voices are today. Radiant sandy hues and bright pink accents, classic yet modern pyramid motifs, and hot foil embossing set the tone for...

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Otta, a new multi-script typeface

As a sensitive counter-response to the advance of AI in all fields, Otta aims to vibrate on a profoundly human frequency. Its gentle, organic tone seeks a return to the human sense, to the delicacy of the artisanal and the handmade. Otta has been carefully drawn under a criterion of rhythm that aims to synthesize both calligraphic and typographic forms...

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Void.Reflections

This book celebrates the 10-year anniversary of VOID Studio, based in Oslo, Norway—an experimental design studio working at the intersection of art, design, technology, and informatics. Carefully curated, Void.Reflections showcases a selection of VOID’s most compelling works, interwoven with a variety of visual and textual narratives. But rather than telling their story alone, VOID chose to open the conversation—inviting external...

Making of The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46

We’re thrilled to finally share a behind-the-scenes look at a project that’s been quietly in the works over the past year—one that brings together not only the best in typography, but also the best in paper, printing, and bookmaking craftsmanship. Here’s a sneak peek into the making of the upcoming edition of The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46—a book we...

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Writing in the Margins

»Cultures are complex, layered and nuanced. Within each culture, subcultures exist. There are regional differences, minorities within minorities, and countless stories and histories.« Students from the Graphic Design and Visual Communication program at Berlin International University of Applied Sciences have published the independent newspaper Writing in the Margins. With the academic guidance of Barbora Demovič, Mio Kojima and Muj Abdulzade,...

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On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z —∞ 

On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z —∞ celebrates the past, present, and future of alternative Graphic Design by the hands and minds of a multidisciplinary and international Design community, their practices, reflections, and community-building experiences at A—Z Presents, the space for experimental graphic design based in Berlin. The book offers a comprehensive view of A—Z activities performed by a...

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BN × VDW — A Review

Bueronardin × Vienna Design Week is (Design) history. 14 festivals, 14 districts, 14 (+2) festival headquarters, 14 color codes, 14 campaigns, 3 festival directors, dozens of collaborations and thousands of events later, a successful partnership comes to an end. From 2011 to 2024, Bueronardin was responsible for the visual communication of the Vienna Design Week – and played a major...

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Allrounder Baroque

Allrounder Baroque is a transitional serif member of the Allrounder superfamily. A playful and dynamic medium-contrast typeface, its lush shapes guide the reader’s eye across the page. Like its famous Baroque-era ancestors penned by van Dijck, Fleischmann, and Baskerville, Allrounder Baroque is an ideal book typeface. Set large, it’s at home in luxury branding and serious-yet-approachable corporate design. At 10...

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HAL TypePad

Ever tried manually applying a variable font transformation across a hundred glyphs in InDesign? If so, you’ve either (a) cried, or (b) abandoned the idea entirely. Variable fonts offer incredible freedom in theory. In practice? Until recently, they often felt locked behind the blandest UI: a lonely slider per axis, buried in a panel, daring you to touch it once...

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Photodarium 2026

The popular classic Photodarium is now appearing for the 14th time and will delight us again in 2026 with an instant photo and a little story of our own. The high-quality tear-off calendar shows artistic and intimate snapshots of 365 well-known photographers and newcomers, professionals, and Polaroid fans from all over the world. On the front of each calendar page there...

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Alphabetical Playground

Driven by a fascination with the alphabet as a vessel for unlimited visual concepts, systems and languages, Alphabetical Playground explores a wide range of themes concerning expression in text. It presents a series of graphic experiments that investigate and manipulate the building blocks of language. Beginning as a series of ongoing variable type experiments, unused project concepts and playful takes...

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Druck und Design Conference 2025

In a world shaped by artificial intelligence, genuine trust has never been more crucial. As algorithms determine what we see and digital communications move at lightning speed, we must ask: what can people truly trust? Amid complexity, print stands out—tangible, verifiable, and lasting. The 2025 Druck und Design Conference in Munich will examine this vital dynamic under the theme: »Print...