The eggcellent idea came to me in a frying pan when I was cooking up two eggs sunny side up. The eggs accidentally created the shape of the letter C. I took a photo of it and used the as a real life template for recreating the character digitally. Based on that I started designing the rest of the alphabet using Illustration on an iPad with a pen. When drawing the shapes of the egg white basis of a character I did not look at the display to let the shape float as freely as possible and only made smaller adjustments to some of the vector points afterwards. This project is all about coincidental typography and having fun with it.
Learning to fail
Image that is part of a personal project gravitating around the ongoing creative creation of unique visual pieces centered on intuition and free association. The images are created mixing personal images, designs and typefaces. The creative limits or work frame are only format and time creation: All images are created in a simulated film format and must be created in very small periods of time (personal free time)
3 months later
Image that is part of a personal project gravitating around the ongoing creative creation of unique visual pieces centered on intuition and free association. The images are created mixing personal images, designs and typefaces. The creative limits or work frame are only format and time creation: All images are created in a simulated film format and must be created in very small periods of time (personal free time)
Futur Display
Future Display is a variable serif typeface which works better at a larger scale due to its decorative assets. It plays with the contrast between a thin stroke and thicker more decorative aspects, which allow a more traditional serif approach and a more abstract one, making it variable.
Space to Create
A typographic series for Foundry 852 – A new WPP Campus, in Hong Kong. It’s a “Space to Create”, with each poster illustrating a different value for the new space, such as create, play, dream, experiment, etc. The type is written in both English and Chinese to reflect the multicultural workspace. Spanning multiple creative techniques as design, illustration, 3D animation, clay sculpting, & augmented reality. The designs where decorated throughout the space as both poster prints and videos on displays.
Agency: Ogilvy Hong Kong, Creative Direction: Michele Salati, Design: Daniel Brokstad, 3D Design: Edu Torres
Bits
Composed using a Mecanorma Caravelle dry transfer folio, then photographed and photoshopped.
String Theory
String Theory evolved from a grad school workshop with visiting designer Hansje Van Halem. Yarn was used to create letterforms on the wall, then a digital version was created in Illustrator. Later, I moved the design over into font software and have been slowly layering the ‘string’ into each weight, each letterform unique from the previous weight. It is an experimental typeface, playing with legibility, form, and function. This typeface is a WIP, not yet published and the weights continue to grow/morph.
Exploring optical illusions for RAYO. A expanded visual arts festival
‘RAYO. A Expanded Visual Arts Festival’ is committed to expanding the limits of the screen and connecting various disciplines, fostering collaborations between visual, scenic and sound artists to produce brand new projects. Thinking about these multidisciplinary intersections we explored optical illusions inspired by the op-art of Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely and the typographic games of Robert Brownjohn, creating a visual narrative through interference patterns where motion and multiple formats play an important role in making the identity memorable but at the same time, opened to different visual perceptions.
Little Litter
Little Litter.
THE LEFT-OVER LITTER OF THE LITTER WE PRODUCE.
This project, in the form of a book, poster and promotional postcards, documents my collection of random byproducts of everyday life’s consumption.
https://segura-inc.com/Litter-Litter
Loft Typeface
Loft is a san-serif and reversed contrast typeface. It has a large x-height and capital height, shorter ascenders and short descenders. The typeface looks condense, narrow and tall. It features more horizontal stress.The typeface has high contrast while also maintain the simplicity and the readability.
Pink Horizon
A play on combining the imprecision of manual hand stamping technique with a structural and modular typeface.
Happy Thoughts
A play on combining the imprecision of manual hand stamping technique with a structural and modular typeface.
A Distortion
Experimenting type distortion with photography.
A Distortion
Experimenting type distortion with photography.
The Monster Within
An illusion showing the struggle and containment of a monster within. The distortion of the Chinese characters adds an eeriness to the piece.
KhalilH2OP
The lettering was done for the Danish contemporary r&b group, formerly named KhalilH2OP, today solely H2OP. The typographic style explores the theory of asemic writing and universal language systems, cultivating extreme organic letterforms with low legibility and excessive ligatures. The lettering questions our innate desire for readability and challenges the observer to explore and discover characters that, like water, seem to be in constant flux.
Slanted Winter Break 21/22
From December 23rd we will be taking our annual winter break to recharge our batteries and tackle many new projects in the new year full of energy! From January 10th, 2022, we will be back in person for you.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, media partners, supporters, cooperation partners, friends, editorial staff, and all contributors who make Slanted in all its facets possible. This year has been so incredible for us with all the wonderful book and magazine releases. Many of them have already won awards, and some have been reprinted or are out of stock.
A big thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
At the same time, we were a bit surprised by our success at one point or another, so we had to overcome many challenges, especially in terms of distribution and shipping. We are happy to welcome new employees in the new year to improve our service and workflow.
As we scroll through our social media channels, it makes us very happy to see how you, our readers and community, celebrate our work and become a part of it yourselves. That’s why we’ve collected some impressions of the past year here.
Please note that from now until January 10th, 2022, there will be no support from the Slanted Shop (subscriptions included) and shipping will take longer than usual. In the meantime, we will be happy to take your orders—and this is especially worthwhile, because we are clearing out our warehouse and offering you many Slanted magazines, special editions and books at killer prices with up to 85% off! We thank you for your understanding.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Your Slanted Team
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The New Era Magazine
Today we would like to present you to the Swedish magazine The New Era. The New Era Magazine is a beautifully crafted print publication focusing on Scandinavian interiors, design, art, and craft.
With their base and area of expertise firmly in Scandinavia, they meet architects, interior designers, urban farmers, artists, and craftspeople who contribute to the visual and material culture. They invite their readers to the most inspiring homes and spaces in the Nordics, while at the same time discussing topics relating to their homes and how to live in this moment of time.
The New Era Magazine is a quarterly magazine published four times a year. Printed in Stockholm, Sweden, on climate friendly paper produced from totally chlorine free pulp. Lessebo paper is the first paper producer to achieve Cradle to cradle Gold Award.
The digital platform offers short regular updates on interiors, design, art, and craft from Scandinavia.
Three issues have been published so far. In issue three The New Era Magazine investigates a world brimming with possibilities. They visit the enchanting studio of acclaimed artist Eva Lange, and travel to an island where a house has been built in the midst of a forgotten fairy-tale garden. The design icon Pia Wallen takes you on an exclusive tour of her home and architect Thomas Sandell invites to his seaside home that measures just 13 square meters. “It’s a professional challenge to fit in as much as possible on a small scale,” he admits. “But you don’t have to live in a huge space to thrive.” Elsewhere in the issue, they look at the tendencies shaping our future–from breaking away from the homogenization of social media to the mass exodus from cities. “Designing is about understanding a situation,” says architect Pernilla Wåhlin Norén on their visit to her home built entirely of pine. “It’s about things like fresh air, sunlight, atmosphere, and purpose–not about choosing products.”
The New Era Magazine—ISSUE 03
Publisher: Ted Publishing AB
Language: English
Format: 224 × 297 mm
Volume: 216 pages
Paper: Lessebo Paper
Printing: Taberg Media Group, Stockholm
Price: £ 14.–
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Cumbre typeface
Cumbre is a slanted display type with unorthodox anatomy, a dynamic and rhythmic structure, movement expression, and a dexterous personality. An eccentric rebel with ribbon-like moves, a balanced extrovert that makes meticulous use of ink traps.
Both name and design are inspired by mountain peaks. ’Cumbre’ in Spanish means summit, hence the jagged style with sharp angles combined with venturous curves and its angular, serrated structure.
Future
This cover artwork emerged out of a series of experimentation for the issue »future« of the magazine »Weißraum«.
Type Dresser
What’s better than a type dresser in creativity absinence times ! Open it and experiment !
Want-Need
Need. Want.
CAMPAIGN EXTENSION.
Born out of our “I Am” project – this series is a comentary-promotional extension which we ramdomly produce.
It has evolved into a generic teaser series touching on how we all want or need something.
https://segura-inc.com/Need-Want
making type audible
My project uses Type to actually make music audible trough the typography. The goal was to create a record cover using just Type. I used different fonts for different songs. While listening to the song, I manipulated the design with a scanner. The whole composition with the font should create an atmosphere in which you hear the song from just looking at it. I experimented with the font while scanning it, so I took the extra step to play with the font analog.
Life
Life.
A SOCIAL STREET CAMPAIGN PROMOTING SELF-DETERMINATION VIA THE “STAND UP FOR YOUR LIFE” POSITIONING TAGLINE.
Life. A basic thing we sometimes fail to celebrate and appreciate.
https://segura-inc.com/Life