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Yearbook of Type #8—History Edition Slanted Publishers 38.00 €
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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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Slanted Experimental Type 4.0 Andreas Ruhe, Students of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Lars Harmsen and Slanted Publishers 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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Design intersektional unter die Lupe nehmen Anna Unterstab 16.00 €
Love & Lightning—A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos Jessica Gysel, Liz Allan, Sara Kaaman and Sarah van Binsbergen 29.90 €
Dancing in Connewitz
Peter Woelck – Dancing in Connewitz Bettina Klein, Gundula Schmitz and Wilhelm Klotzek 22.00 €
Avatar Cards 45.00 €
Grafikmagazin 03.26 Phoenix Verlag für Grafikdesign 19.80 €
Data Centers—Edges of a Wired Nation
Data Centers — Edges of a Wired Nation Hannes Rickli, Max Stadler and Monika Dommann 35.00 €
Failed Images – Photography and its Counter-Practices
Failed Images – Photography and its Counter-Practices Ernst van Alphen 25.00 €
The Monocle Guide to Good Business
How to Make a Nation: A Monocle Guide Monocle 45.00 €
Airport Wayfinding
Airport Wayfinding Heike Nehl, Sibylle Schlaich 44.00 €
My Work Is My Personal Theatre Ani Menua, Anne Avramut and Katerina Belkina 30.00 €

news

Since 2004, Slanted’s first influential blog has transformed into a prominent news platform, providing daily news and updates, and showcasing inspiring portfolios from the global design scene. Every day, we connect with the global creative community through authentic, inspiring, and trusted storytelling. Want to be a part of our platform? submit a news

Parametric Fonts

PARAMETRIC FONTS I’m going to talk about a future. Not the future: I’ve abandoned any pretension of prediction; AI makes the landscape too unstable for…

The NoGood Book

The NoGood Book brings together five years of independent creative practice, offering an insight into illustration projects, creative processes, and the ideas behind NoGood’s distinctive…

Ride or Art

Sheila Dobón Studio's art direction turns the road’s intensity into an artistic archive Raw Cycling Magazine, founded in 2013 as a digital platform for cycling…

events

Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends Young V&A, London 01.01.1970 – 15.11.2026
Design Policy Day Frankfurt, Offenbach, Wiesbaden 11.11.2026 – 14.11.2026

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

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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📅 SAVE THE DATE: November 13, 2026, 16–21:00 Join Slanted Publishers in Karlsruhe for an Open House and release party celebrating Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul! Meet the team, explore the new issue, and...