Making of Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools
Coming Soon 🚀 Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools is in production, and it’s set to explore the systems, scripts, and software shaping today’s creative landscape!
This issue dives deep into the tools behind contemporary design—revealing how digital instruments influence not only what we create, but how we think, experiment, and communicate. From open-source platforms and custom-built scripts to essential everyday utilities, Digital Tools showcases the evolving ecosystem that continuously expands creative possibilities and challenges established workflows.
Spanning disciplines such as graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding, the issue brings together a wide range of voices from across the global creative community. Through in-depth interviews and thought-provoking essays, designers, artists, and developers share how digital tools shape their aesthetics, authorship, and imagination—offering personal insights into processes that are often invisible yet fundamental.
In the making of this issue, materiality plays a key role: carefully selected papers create a tactile counterpoint to the digital themes explored throughout. Printed in spot colors (HKS 243N, HKS 13N, Pantone 802N) by Stober Medien, the magazine uses uncoated premium ZETA diamant extra glatt 120 g/m² and the new semi transparent IBO TWO 80 g/m² by Reflex Paper. Cover printing and finishing by Gallery Print. Bound as a Swiss brochure with flaps and open thread stitching by Buchbinderei Spinner, it embraces both structure and openness—mirroring the hybrid nature of contemporary design workflows.
Get ready for an inspiring exploration of workflows, experimentation, and the future of creative technology. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or just starting out, Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools invites you to rethink your process and discover new ways of making.
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editors: Slanted Publishers, Jacob Tessmann
Design: Slanted Publishers
Release: May 2026
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Volume: 224 pages
Language: English
Printing: Cover and finishing details were printed by Gallery Print, Offset printing full color with spot colors by Stober Medien,
Paper: EFALIN 108 hochweiß feinleinen 280 g/m² (Cover), ZETA diamant extra glatt 120 g/m² and IBO TWO 80 g/m² by Reflex Paper
Workmanship: Swiss brochure with flaps, open thread stitching by Buchbinderei Spinner
ISBN: 978-3-948440-96-1
ISSN: 1867-6510
Price: €24.– (DE)
Preorder your copy of Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools here.
