Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul offers a vivid insight into South Korea’s contemporary creative scene.
Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul
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The World’s Best Typography, Typography 47 Griffin McCabe, Joe Newton and Type Directors Club 45.00 €
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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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Inter Human–All You Need to Know About Creativity Raban Ruddigkeit 22.00 €

slanted open house

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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Hallo Kopenhagen Andrea Fjordside Pontoppidan, Harriet Dohmeyer, Katrine Marie Guldager, Kristina Nya Glaffey, Lucia Odoom and Marie Krutmann 32.00 €
Guidelines and Standards for Visual Design
Guidelines and Standards for Visual Design Otl Aicher 78.00 €
Grafikmagazin 06.23—Design im Raum Phoenix Verlag für Grafikdesign 19.80 €
Stefan Sagmeister: Heute ist besser Verlag Hermann Schmidt 35.00 €
Jan-Holger Mauss – For Adults Only Jan-Holger Mauss 20.00 €
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Generative Gestaltung – Creative Coding im Web Verlag Hermann Schmidt 40.00 €
Cry Me A River Rotopol 16.00 €
Let Me Draw You a Bath Anna Mayr, Philipp Bollmann and Thomas Girst 25.00 €
Grafikmagazin 03.26 Phoenix Verlag für Grafikdesign 19.80 €

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The World’s Best Typography

The World’s Best Typography, Typography 47 presents the latest winners of the Type Directors Club competition, showcasing outstanding work in communication design, lettering, and typeface…

Sekondo: Control Adobe Apps Through Conversation

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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…

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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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Ebooks section extends our publishing program into the digital realm. Designed for focused reading and long-term reference, Slanted ebooks combine editorial quality with the flexibility of digital formats. Looking for your next great digital read? see all of our ebooks
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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