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Adobe Creative Residency: Six tips on how to craft your best application

The Adobe Creative Residency is the ultimate kick-start for your creative career: Throughout one year you can realize your dream project, travel…

29.01.2019 – designnews

Available again: Dutch Type

The “bible” of Dutch typography now as a reprint

Published in March, 2004, Dutch Type was sold out about four years later. Only in the end of 2018 the reprint was…

28.01.2019 – designpublications

Rundgang an der HMKW Köln

Semesterausstellung Wintersemester 2018/19

Student works from a variety of graphic design disciplines will be exhibited again this winter term at HMKW Cologne: On Friday and…

28.01.2019 – events

Stiftung Buchkunst: Call for Entries 2019

From now on, beautiful books can be submitted to Stiftung Buchkunst until March 31st for the competition for the »Most Beautiful German Books«…

25.01.2019 – designevents

EDCH – The Idea Salon

Editorial Design Conference EDCH 2019

Pure inspiration for designers of all kinds—Europe’s largest Editorial Design Conference EDCH will be a Salon of Ideas in 2019. In the…

24.01.2019 – designevents

Rutu Modan Interview

Comic-Festival in Angoulême

When the Angoulême International Comics Festival opens on January 24th, 200,000 visitors will crowd the streets of this small town in the…

23.01.2019 – eventsillustrationinterview

Parcours MSD

Vernissage & Exhibition

Sometimes clear and straightforward, sometimes intuitive and vibrant: design thinking and creative processes always require the ability to view and explore challenges…

23.01.2019 – designevents

Slanted in Dubai: Fikra Design Studio

In Spring 2018 the Slanted editors took a close-up look at the contemporary design scene of Dubai. A city—when described by many…

22.01.2019 – designpublications

STGT Outstanding

Ein Stadtportrait der kreativen Szene Stuttgarts

STGT Outstanding shows five boroughs of Stuttgart. Subcultural institutions, like bars with a creative concept or off-spaces like project rooms, were interviewed…

22.01.2019 – designeducationillustrationinterviewphotographytypography

Total Armageddon—A Slanted Reader on Design

Support the Kickstarter Campaign!

Help us to publish this amazing summary of the past 14 years of independent publishing and preorder your copy for only €…

21.01.2019 – designeventspublications

Black Weekend

40% discount on Slanted back issues

Happy new year to all of you: 40% discount only this weekend (01/18–01/20/2019 midnight UTC+1) using the discount code HAPPYNEWYEAR at Slanted…

17.01.2019 – designpublications

Brygada 1918

Digital Revival Project

Brygada 1918 is a digital revival project of Brygada typeface done thanks to the support of the “Independent” program and the President…

17.01.2019 – typography

81st Berlin Typostammtisch

Mastering Type 2018 shows all theses, which were created last year in international master programs in the field of typeface design, in…

16.01.2019 – eventstypography

Slanted in Dubai: Moloobhoy and Brown

In Spring 2018 the Slanted editors took a close-up look at the contemporary design scene of Dubai. A city—when described by many…

14.01.2019 – designpublications

TOCA ME

design conference 2019

On March 9th 2019 once again TOCA ME design conference will take place in Munich’s Alte Kongresshalle with renown speakers from all…

11.01.2019 – designevents

Thonik: Why We Design

Everybody is a designer! But why?

In this book, Thonik, the Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, researches eleven personal reasons why they…

09.01.2019 – designpublications