Slanted and brandbook have known each other for over 10 years now. In 2010 I discovered the beautiful notebooks at the Creative…
Wer bitte ist Rudolf Koch?
Homage to one of the most influential type designers in Offenbach
The new book Wer bitte ist Rudolf Koch? meets the concern that one of the most influential persons in Offenbach’s cultural history…
Magalog DDC Award Gute Gestaltung 2019
formdusche developed a new DDC MAG format
For the Deutscher Designer Club Award Gute Gestaltung 2019 yearbook the design studio formdusche invented a whole new format, by adding an…
Typologie, a Typographic Palette
Contemporary French Type Design
Through more than a hundred unique font specimens, Typologie, a Typographic Palette is an immersion in contemporary French type design, in its…
Digital Underground Vol. 1
The New Approach to The Discipline of Digital Design
In Digital Underground Vol. 1, editor and art director Vincent Tavano reflects on the new approach to the discipline of digital design…
SAND Issue 21
Ten Years of Literature and Art
To mark a decade of publishing SAND, the editors are calling 2020 their “year of archaeology” and have filled SAND Issue 21…
I have always been a big fan of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings and I own several books documenting his work. This 752-page,…
Indiecon 2020
Independent Publishing Festival
This weekend from September 5th to 6th, Indiecon 2020 will take place in Hamburg. There is still the possibility to register for…
As the earliest and leading research & culture project about typography & graphic design culture in the Chinese speaking world, The Type…
Cercle Magazines #7 & #8
Two New Cercle Magazines
The Cercle Magazines #7 & #8 are now available in the Slanted Shop. Cercle is an independent and thematic magazine published once…
Social matter, social design
For good or bad, all design is social
Beautifully produced and designed, Social matter, social design is a real enrichment for the socially conscious designer. Through its diverse essays, creative…
The Natural Enemies of Books
A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions…
Let’s Play Outdoors & Little Big Rooms
By Little Gestalten
There are many children’s books, but not all of them please us as much as these two releases from Little Gestalten. Especially…
For Mail, artist Mungo Thomson (b. 1969, Davis, CA) asked The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to let their incoming mail accumulate…
Slanted in L.A.: Happening Studio
Slanted Magazine #35—L.A.
In a town like L.A. and on a production like Slanted’s, which brings together the material for a magazine, not everything has to…
Visual Coexistence
Informationdesign and Typography in the Intercultural Field
In Visual Coexistence Ruedi Baur and his research team analyze visual graphics from different cultures and identify their specific principles of depiction.…
Free Poster
published by Matter Of
Free Poster is a non-profit cooperative project which connects artistic productions within public and private spaces through analog media. It is published…
Remember the South
Visual Exploration of Elements of Racism and Stereotypes of the American South
In Remember the South, artist Frank Frances creates a contemporary re-imagining of colonialism through a fictional adaptation of elements used today that…
The Gardens of Eden & Small Homes, Grand Living
New Publications for a More Personalized Life
We present you two new publications The Gardens of Eden & Small Homes, Grand Living by gestalten that can help you to…
The Book Block
Industrial Bookbinding Techniques
The Book Block is a manual of industrial binding techniques, the first in the Making a Book collection, which focuses on manuals…
Eye 100
Celebrating Graphic Design since 100 Issues
After nearly three decades of continuous publishing, Eye’s hundredth issue is a special called Talking about graphic design, a broad overview of…
DO YOU READ ME? & Buchhandlungen
New Publications Celebrating Book Shops Worldwide
DO YOU READ ME? Bookshops are not the only places where books are sold. They are places of togetherness in a neighborhood…
Absolute Egypt
Visual Culture of Egypt
Absolute Egypt book is a documentation of the local visual culture through the lens of graphic design in the local older areas…
A Shift in Perspective
An Investigation into Creativity from Constraint
The discipline of visual communication, similar to many others, underlies a great deal of pressure, as it involves a high need for…
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