Slanted
Slanted is a magazine on typography and design published since 2005 by the independent Karlsruhe house Slanted Publishers. Each issue takes on a single theme at the intersection of type, design, art and culture, and the title has been recognised in national and international design awards.
Slanted Experimental Type 4.0 continues the series’ exploration of innovative typography and graphic design — created with students from Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts under Prof. Lars Harmsen and Andreas Ruhe. The 296-page softcover gathers black-and-white work that embraces accidents, imprecision and unconventional methods: AI-generated and experimental fonts, variable type design, and typefaces built through unique concepts and systems.
Issue 41, “Amsterdam”, profiles the city’s design scene — egalitarian, functional and spiked with humour — through interviews, essays and an appendix of the latest Dutch typefaces, featuring Irma Boom, Hansje van Halem, Karel Martens, De Designpolitie and Novo Typo.
Issue 42, “Books”, asks whether the future of the printed book is tied to its physical, sensual qualities. It gathers experimental, boundary-pushing book design alongside timeless work where content dictates form, set in Suisse Int’l paired with Federico Parra Barrios’s typeface Exposure.
Issue 44, “Type Fashion”, explores typography at the intersection with fashion — type printed on clothing, accessories and the runway, and used to carry political and socio-critical messages — set in a radical two-colour palette, with interviews including Mirko Borsche and Jean-Baptiste Levée.
Issue 47, “Digital Tools”, surveys the instruments behind contemporary creative practice — from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to everyday utilities that shape digital and analogue workflows. Across graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design and creative coding, designers, artists and developers discuss how tools shape aesthetics, imagination and authorship; a companion website extends the print directory with further projects and resources.
What was design? — A century of creative quest, edited by Florian Walzel, gathers 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists and philosophers — bold, compact definitions that contradict and cross-reference one another — alongside Walzel’s essay on why design remains conceptually ambiguous a century into its career.
45 Symbols — Clay to Code documents more than a decade of The Phaistos Project: an international seminar series that asks emerging artists and designers to build systematic visual languages, taking the still-undeciphered 3,700-year-old Phaistos Disc and its 45 embossed symbols as a shared prompt. Edited by Andreas Henrich, Olivier Arcioli and Pascal Glissmann, the book gathers over 2,000 symbols from open calls, workshops, exhibitions and risograph publications — organised across five thematic fields from everyday material culture to speculative alphabets — as both a living research archive and a practical reference for visual storytelling and documentation.