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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You’re warmly invited to our annual Open House!

Join us for an afternoon and evening of drinks, snacks, browsing and good conversations. We’ll be celebrating the launch of our new Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul, with all our publications and a few exclusive goodies available.

Everyone is welcome—and you might even find a special Christmas gift or two 😉

📅 Friday, November 13th, 2026
🕓 16–21:00 Book Sale & Open House
🕔 17:00 — Short introduction to Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul

📍 Slanted Publishers
Nördliche Uferstraße 6, 76189 Karlsruhe

We look forward to seeing you!
Julia, Klementyna, Lars, Magdalena, Samira & Tim

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Dancing in Connewitz
Peter Woelck – Dancing in Connewitz Bettina Klein, Gundula Schmitz and Wilhelm Klotzek 22.00 €
dog days Helena Melikov 30.00 €
Platform Brutality—Closing Down Internet Toxicity Geert Lovink 26.50 €
Walking Sticks Keiji Takeuchi and Marco Sammicheli 20.00 €
SPOD #9 Zur Dialektik des Social Design Daniel Martin Feige 10.00 €
Reading Pictures
Irène Hug – Reading Pictures Irène Hug 32.00 €
nomad #5 – where to go?
nomad #5 – where to go? hw.design gmbh 14.00 €
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 €
Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent—Scrutinizing Visual Communication Today Ingo Offermanns 25.00 €
Risomania – The New Spirit of Printing
Risomania – The New Spirit of Printing John Z. Komurki 44.00 €

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Sekondo: Control Adobe Apps Through Conversation

After more than three decades in design, José Manuel Fernández knows that the best part of the job rarely happens in the menus of Photoshop…

Mira Display

The project began with my name. In Spanish, mira means “look”. While designing a typeface for my own visual identity, this dual meaning became the…

Slanted Open House / Seoul Release Party

You’re warmly invited to our annual Open House! We’re looking forward to spending a lovely Friday afternoon and evening with you and introducing our new…

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Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends Young V&A, London 01.01.1970 – 15.11.2026
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
Slanted Open House / Seoul Release Party Slanted Publishers, Nördliche Uferstraße 6, 76189 Karlsruhe, Germany 13.11.2026 – 13.11.2026

call for submissions—sports

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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Slanted Magazine #33—Prague Slanted Publishers 19.99 €

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