Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul offers a vivid insight into South Korea’s contemporary creative scene.
Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul
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PLOP #03—Polish Design Revue Marian Misiak, Rene Wawrzkiewicz and Lars Harmsen 12.00 €
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Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul Slanted Publishers 24.00 €
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Limited Special Edition Seoul Notebook Slanted Publishers 19.00 €
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GraphicDesign.zip Slanted Publishers 14.00 €
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FONS HICKMANN Posters—Now and Then Fons Hickmann and Ulrike Kremeier 35.00 €
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Slanted Experimental Type 4.0 Andreas Ruhe, Students of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Lars Harmsen and Slanted Publishers 22.00 €
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Inter Human–All You Need to Know About Creativity Raban Ruddigkeit 22.00 €
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Yearbook of Type #8—History Edition Slanted Publishers 38.00 €

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Rhetoric of Logos. A Primer for Visual Language Eduard Helmann 24.90 €
Type Specimen | Typo Emoji Poster | Hand Print Stamp Rough | A3 Riso Print TypoGraphicDesign.de 9.00 €
My Dreamhouse is not a House The Velvet Cell 40.00 €
SPOD #3 Design heisst Entwurf Lucius Burckhardt 11.00 €
SPOD #5 Drei Vorlesungen zum Design Chup Friemert 10.00 €
The Generative Mind. A New Approach to Creative Thinking Patrik Hübner 29.90 €
Bi-Scriptual – Typography and Graphic Design with Multiple Script Systems
Bi-Scriptual—Typography and Graphic Design with Multiple Script Systems Ben Wittner, Sascha Thoma and Timm Hartmann 59.90 €
Throw “Holewang”
Throw “Holewang” hinzkunst 165.00 €
Where The Poplars Grow Viktoria Morasch 40.00 €
Teresa Mayr – seit wir game of thrones kucken, liege ich auf dem bauch Fantôme Verlag 20.00 €

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MONDAINE Doppio Watches: One typographic system, and the language of double

MONDAINE, the brand that has turned the iconic design of the Official Swiss Railways Station Clock into a world-renowned timeless watch and clock collection, expands…

Recap: DesignThinkers 2026

Over 2,000 designers were “Out of Office” at DesignThinkers, Canada’s premier graphic design conference, this October 20–21 in Toronto. Away from their desks and without…

Conference on Expanded Design

The phrase is based on the “Law of the Instrument” theory, which states: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting…

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Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends Young V&A, London 01.01.1970 – 15.11.2026
Paper Print Festival 2026 IBKK Design und Kunstzentrum, Bochum 30.10.2026 – 01.11.2026
Werkschau Mannheim 2026 Alte Feuerwache Mannheim 06.11.2026 – 08.11.2026
Design Policy Day Frankfurt, Offenbach, Wiesbaden 11.11.2026 – 14.11.2026
Conference on Expanded Design 12.11.2026 – 13.11.2026

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The call for submissions is now closed—thank you so much for all your entries! We’re currently reviewing and curating the contributions with great care. Due to the high number of submissions, we won’t be able to contact everyone individually. However, all selected participants will receive a discount code by email once the magazine is released in spring 2027.

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Flexible Visual Systems
Flexible Visual Systems Slanted Publishers 48.00 €
Graphic Languages—A Visual Guide to the World’s Writing Systems Oliver Häusle 30.00 €
Ich, Wir & Digitalität—Ethik in der Lehre Charlotte Axelsson and Dana Blume 0.00 €
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