Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
We are happy to announce that Design Struggles – Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives is now available at Slanted Shop! Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting, and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic, cultural and ecological systems. This book shows how this entanglement arose from Eurocentric and...
The Tolerance Poster Project by Mirko Ilić is now to be seen for the first time in Germany at Kunstareal München from March 30th to April 29th. Lars Harmsen, also Creative Director at Melville Brand Design, curated this show together with Caroline Fuchs (Curator for graphic design at Die Neue Sammlung). At Slanted, we met Mirko back in 2015 while...
The Museum of Avant-garde has launched MA-g Awards 2021—offering graphic designers, photographers, and illustrators the possibility to be part of its permanent collection, next to some of the greatest avant-garde artists, from Kandinsky to Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy to Dalí, Chagall to Duchamp, from Strand to El Lissitzky. The invitation is addressed to: – individuals such as photographers, illustrators, graphic designers,...
The winners of the competition 100 beste Plakate 20 D A CH for the best posters from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) in 2020 have been announced after the jury meeting on March 4th and 5th, 2021. The competition attracted 600 entries with a total of 1,973 posters (868 individual posters, 321 series). The jury, chaired by Markus Weisbeck,...
Launched in 2017, its catalog has more than 40 typefaces and includes experienced type designers as well as young ones whom 205TF support for their first typeface. 205TF aims to be a virtuous platform when digital typography is sometimes seen as a consumable whose cost must always be reduced. In its catalog, there are only original and quality typefaces; body...
With Summer Workshops 2021 the Visual Communication Institute / The Basel School of Design offers workshops for students, educators, and graphic designers. The workshops afford insight into topical themes in Visual Communication in a study program reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design. Practical exercises with a high level of professionalism form the core of the workshops...
Originally planned to happen in Munich for the sixth time, Forward Festival Munich 2021 took place online as Forward Online Festival 2021. Forward Online Festival was all about the transformation of society through digitization in the creative scene and an eye opener to the striking aspects of digitization—applied to design, creativity, and communication: Collaborative work, creative networking, the future of online...
We are delighted to present you our Typeface of the Month: WT Volkolak. The typeface is the latest release of the new Swiss type foundry Wraith Types, which we also present to you today for the first time. WT Volkolak is a type system designed by Guillaume Jean-Mairet, exploring the common structure shared by didones and grotesque typefaces. It is...
The PLASTIKCOMB MAGAZINE 1.0 – A Beautiful Mess is now available at Slanted Shop! In the States, when it was picture day, you were handed a plastic comb, in which your current hairdo was styled to make you look “presentable,” and more than often you ended up looking like a completely different person. Like collage, you take an image, and make it...
TypeType offers a Variable Fonts Webinar for web designers, graphic designers, and agencies. If you ever wanted to learn what variable fonts are, what technologies enable them, which types of variable fonts exist, what tasks they can solve, what the advantages and disadvantages of variable fonts are, which softwares support variable fonts and so on, this is the right event...
The publication Claudia Skoda – Dressed to Thrill is now available at Slanted Shop! As a pioneer and icon of Berlin’s underground culture, Claudia Skoda defined the fashion of the 1970s and 1980s. She knitted delicate yarns—having taught herself the handwork techniques—into groundbreaking, body-hugging designs that triggered a revolution in our understanding of knitwear. Superstars such as David Bowie and...
The typeface Transparent gained its name after its first use—on the transparent of the artist led action The Letter, a contemporary reenactment of Tadeusz Kantor’s 1967 happening. On May 6th, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of artists took a fourteen-meter-long banner-letter with the slogan ŻYĆ NIE, UMIERAĆ (To live not, to die) from the Main...
