40th Graphic Design Exhibition

Posted on by Melike Tascioglu Vaughan

Organized by the Association of Graphic Designers of Turkey (GMK) since 1981, the 40th Graphic Design Exhibition welcomed its visitors on October 12th, 2021, in Tophane-i Amire exhibition hall in İstanbul. The exhibition can also be viewed online and constitutes as a memory for graphic design in Turkey every year.

Graphic Design Awards, which are given every year as part of the exhibition, were presented on October 8th, 2021, at an online award ceremony that was broadcast live on the GMK YouTube channel.

222 graphic designers applied to the exhibition with 563 designs in 22 categories. Award-winning designs were determined as a result of the online evaluations carried out by the selection committees between September 2nd and 7th, 2021. In addition to the Graphic Design Awards, six other special awards were presented to the winners at the ceremony.

View the 40th Graphic Design Exhibition here.

Kölner Klopfer 2021

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

Every year, the Kölner Klopfer (engl.: Cologne Thumper) is awarded to outstanding designers by students of the Köln International School of Design (KISD). We are very excited that Slanted Publishers has been awarded the Kölner Klopfer 2021! On November 3rd, 2021 the winners were honored at a first-time hybrid award ceremony.

In the 20th anniversary year of the Kölner Klopfer, the award ceremony was accompanied by an exhibition in which the works of the winners could be seen. Since 1996, KISD students have been awarding the Kölner Klopfer to designers every year. This award recognizes outstanding individuals or groups who, in the opinion of the student body, have rendered outstanding services to design. The selected candidates for the Kölner Klopfer were presented at a general assembly and put to the vote in a secret ballot. Among the previous award winners are: Erik Spiekermann, Axel Kufus, Droog Design, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Motoko Ishii, John Maeda, James Auger, Heinz Bähr, Stefan Sagmeister, Ingo Maurer, Dieter Rams, Erik Kessels, R. & E. Bouroullec, Eike König, Jerszy Seymour, Sarah Illenberger, Mike Meiré, and Henrik Vibskov.

Julia Kahl and Lars Harmsen were nominated with Slanted by KISD student David Wiesner: “Slanted Publisher’s publications have accompanied and guided my path into communication design. They were a window into a world I wanted to be a part of. Now their work continues to inspire me.”

This year’s award ceremony was accompanied by an exhibition showcasing the developments and various periods of Kahl and Harmsen’s sixteen-year publishing history. The award ceremony and exhibition was designed by Akari Shimizu, David Wiesner, Marco Puzik, and Marvin Senarath.

We would have loved to be there to toast it and are overjoyed to have won the Kölner Klopfer 2021. Thank you so much!

Every Day a Drawing 2022

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Every Day a Drawing 2022 is a personal and on-going project by Paula Troxler. The Calendar shows drawings which the illustrator has made exactly one year before.

It is a tear-off calendar, every Week starts on Sunday with a topic. The six following days sayings, actions, strange things, circumstances, places, and reflections from and around this topic are picked up. It is a personal journey in drawings and following a black line and points through history. Topics are the comparison, Patti Smith, Fear, Arthur Miller, Hannah Arendt, Safari, conscience, Werner Fassbinder, hunger, spring, wishes, getting old, and many others.

It is the 23rd Calendar of Every Day a Drawing, it is numbered and limited, offset printed Sunday in red.

Paula Troxler (b. 1981) lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work consists of doing illustrations for various newspapers and magazines as well as poster, identities for festivals, book publications, doing murals, and exhibitions. Since 2010, she is self-publisher of her daily calendar. The drawings already have exhibited in Xian/China, Mikkeli/Finnland, Zurich/Switzerland, and Cottbus/Germany.

Every Day a Drawing 2022

Publisher: Paula Troxler
Author: Paula Troxler
Printing: Offset
Format in cm (w × h): 12 × 17 cm
Price: € 26.–

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Posted on by Julia Kahl

Du liebst Typografie und Editorial Design und möchtest in einem internationalen Verlag arbeiten? Dann bist du bei uns genau richtig! Wir vergeben ein 6-monatiges Praktikum im Bereich Redaktion/Grafik ab März 2022 und suchen eine(n) engagierte(n) Studierende(n), der/die Lust hat zu erfahren, wie wir arbeiten und für 6 Monate Teil des Slanted-Teams wird.

Wir bieten:

  • Redaktionelle und grafische Mitarbeit am Slanted Magazin, insbesondere Ausgabe #40 (Experimental Type)
  • Einblicke in unsere Verlagstätigkeit (Konzeption, Redaktion, Organisation, Vertrieb, PR etc.)
  • Grafische Mitarbeit an unseren Publikationen
  • Studiofotografie, Bildbearbeitung
  • Verantwortungsvolle, selbstständige Arbeit und unter Anleitung
  • Mögliche Teilnahme an Designkonferenzen im Rahmen unserer Medienpartnerschaften

Das sollte der/die BewerberIn mitbringen:

  • Abgeschlossenes Grundstudium im Bereich Grafikdesign (o. Ä.)
  • Sichere Anwendungskenntnisse in InDesign und Photoshop
  • Großes Interesse an neuen Strömungen in den Bereichen Typografie, Type Design, Design und Kultur
  • Redaktionelles Interesse
  • Selbstständigkeit, Weitblick, Flexibilität, Kreativität und Ideenreichtum
  • Sehr gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse
  • Organisationstalent und Kommunikationsstärke
  • Gewissenhaftes und genaues Arbeiten
  • Das Praktikum erfolgt im Rahmen eines studienbegleitenden Pflichtpraktikums

Das Praktikum bei Slanted Publishers findet vom 01.03.22–31.08.2022 in Karlsruhe statt und wird vergütet. Bewerber*innen sollten erklären, warum sie ihr Praktikum bei uns machen möchten. Bitte richtet Eure vollständige Bewerbung als aussagefähiges PDF-Portfolio (Anschreiben, Lebenslauf, Arbeitsproben) ab sofort bis spätestens 28.11.2021 an Julia Kahl, [email protected]. Die Bewerbungsgespräche finden nach Sichtung aller Bewerbungen anschließend statt.

Wir freuen uns sehr auf Eure Bewerbung!

Tÿpo St. Gallen 2021

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

For the sixth time, Tÿpo St. Gallen was already organized and invited visitors to the GBS in St. Gallen from November 5th to 7th, 2021. During this weekend, we learned from the speakers and presenters what intuition means to them and were allowed to participate in exciting workshops. A weekend full of inspiration with a great program encouraged us to listen more to our own gut feeling.

After a welcome and introduction to Tÿpo St. Gallen 2021, the audience was directly involved in the performance by the musician Rudolf Lutz. He improvised on the piano and spontaneously transformed the audience into a humming choir. He demonstrated very well what intuition means in music. In addition to the moderation of Clemens Theobert Schedler, the creative presentations also contributed to making the weekend very entertaining and varied. Right at the beginning, Wolfgang Ortner from the Linz-based graphic design studio OrtnerSchinko showed the role that intuition plays in their projects and that it can be worthwhile to act more by gut feeling and less by client briefing. Daniel Ammann illustrated how we use signs and media to express and communicate ourselves. Swiss designer Josh Schaub has a special talent for movement and motion design. His rules for designing moving posters motivated people to open After Effects themselves. The importance of one’s own handwriting and how we can all learn to write beautifully was demonstrated by the Dutch graphic designer Britt Möricke in her presentation. Friday evening ended with a book vernissage of the extended new edition of the classic work on the history of writing ABC—Forms of Latin Type Development.

Before we were introduced to all workshops in an elevator pitch, Andreas Koop showed us what intuition means for web design. After that, a colorful mix of workshops followed, ranging from paper theory to lettering, programming, writing, type and web design. A good opportunity to exchange ideas and get creative with the other participants.

Latvian type designer Aleksandra Samulenkova then gave an insight into the special features of fonts in the Cyrillic alphabet in her presentation. How to work well together in a team of four, what challenges there are and how teamwork can lead to more creative design—this was shown by the designers from Büro Klass from Hamburg. In the afternoon, type designer and graphic designer Just van Rossum gave a presentation on the possibilities of color fonts. Particularly surprising for us was the lecture by Meike Ziegler. She told us about her travels and how she changed from design to the concept of Creatuals. She now designs customized ritual concepts, full of collaborative creativity.

On Sunday, there was also the opportunity for a guided tour of the art museum in St. Gallen. In addition, the most beautiful books from Switzerland, Germany, and Austria were presented.

We really enjoyed the weekend full of typography, design, and inspiration and are already looking forward to the next round of Tÿpo St. Gallen.

Letterform Variations

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Set grids and rules give people the space to think and invent creatively. With its firm shapes and clear grids, Letterform Variations inspires in many ways and gives the creative mind the space for new ideas and development. We are very proud to present it to you today for the first time.

692 pages containing 19,840 letters, all derived from one framework. Letterform Variations is a playful study into letterform construction using basic grid and shape based systems, and its potential to generate vast amounts of varying alphabetical outcomes.

Letterform Variations is the product of Nigel Cottier’s methodology for developing letterforms that are based partly on visual transformations generated by algorithmic functions, such as constraints, rules, grids, and modules, and partly on designerly judgements about composition, balance and visual dynamics. Cottier’s modular systems are built within expansive design spaces that facilitate the production of an almost infinite range of outputs, but what distinguishes them is the considered choices he makes subsequently, categorizing, and editing his results as competent and handsome representations of alphabetic forms. This connection between impartial geometric shapes and the alphabetic code brings to mind Paul Elliman’s contention that the boundaries between typography, typology, and topography are never distinct.

Letterform Variations

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Author: Nigel Cottier
Design: Nigel Cottier
Foreword: Paul McNeil
Release: November 2021
Format in cm (w × h): 15.5 × 20 cm
Volume: 692 pages
Workmanship: matt soft touch finish, Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-948440-35-0
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I’m going slightly maed …

Posted on by Viola Dessin

We would like to invite you to join the exhibition I’m going slightly maed …. The Master’s program Editorial Design (MA ED) of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Department of Design and Frappanz will show selected Master’s projects in a new exhibition series starting in November, 2021.

With I’m going slightly maed …, the design works will be presented to a larger public in order to make the complexity and relevance of editorial design visible. Magazines, newspapers, and books surround us all every day, but what is behind these publications? What motivations, themes, and ideas drive young designers and how does a concept become a design idea?

After a long period of cultural abstinence, they want to bring these innovative editorial projects from the university directly into the urban space of Dortmund. They will start the series with a total of six editorial projects in mid-November. This exhibition series will then be continued in 2022.

The openings will take place at 6:30 p.m. every day. Interested ones are invited to come to the opening or view the works as passing by through the large display window of Frappanz.

I’m going slightly maed …

Openings take place on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

Where?
Kleine Beurhausstraße 5–7
44137 Dortmund
Germany

November 18th to 24th, 2021
Alexander Staudt: “do-it-yourself–print-on-demand–buch,” 2021
Aleksandar Živković: “Was bleibt vom opelaner ohne opel-werk?,” 2021

November 25th to December 1st, 2021
Jennifer Brade: “dear stars” a declaration of love to the sky and its stars, 2021
Juliane Nöst: “jolki-palki” Magazine about Russian Germans–identity, culture and history, 2021

December 2nd to 8th, 2021
Sofia Spengler: “Über die vielfältigkeit von gedanken, gefühlen und wahrnehmungen sowie das bewusstsein introvertierter stärken.”, 2021
Christoph Bangert: “The fotobus manual – on teaching photography,” 2020

The exhibitions are a collaboration of Frappanz – Kollektiv Kultureller Freiheiten e.v. and the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, Department of Design

Followers of the Flow

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

Today we are presenting you the book Followers of the Flow by Jonas Wyssen, which deals with the flow experience as a creative tool and is now available at Slanted Shop!

Followers of the Flow is printed by Brandbook in Germany. It traces the evolution of the freestyle movement of the 1990s, a movement that does not just refer to sports but to a mindset which is currently enjoying a renaissance in modern society. What is the connection between freestyle and creativity? How can the flow experience–a denominator for all freestyle activities–be seen as a creative tool? Why is it essential to try and fail? The manual explores these questions in six beautifully illustrated chapters and photographs of Silvano Zeiter. Giving the reader a “recipe” in the form of a new and ingenious creative method: Freestyle Thinking.

Freestyle Thinking is a new creative method that allows you to practice activating your creative Flow and even train it like you would train a muscle. The more often you are in the creative Flow, the easier you will find it to develop creative solutions in the shortest possible time.

The method is explored with the help of three dimensions in a model: the trick, the flow and the swell. These are explained in subchapters and are each followed by a practical assignment for the reader.

About the author: Jonas Wyssen is a brand designer, UX specialist and leader of creative processes, whose designs unite emotional expression and precise functionality. His broad work experience combined with his longtime passion for snowboarding, skateboarding and especially surfing have inspired him to develop and write about a new ingenious creative method, Freestyle Thinking.

Followers of the Flow

Author and Design: Jonas Wyssen
Photographer: Silvano Zeiter
Publisher: Studio Wyssen
Format: 14.5 × 21 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Bookbinding: Thread stitching, Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-9525308-0-1
Price: € 39.–
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Support “Be Water My Friend” on Kickstarter

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Inspired by an interview with Bruce Lee, where he refers to an aspect of Taoist philosophy, that water can teach us “the way,” the graphic designer, creative activist, lecturer, author, and founder of the eponymous studio for branding communication Rafael Bernardo started to wonder whether he “was water” in his creative workflow. Now, five years later, he wrote and designed a book with 224 pages, which is divided 50/50 into the parts Roots and Wings. It is now time to bring this project to life: Support “Be Water My Friend” on Kickstarter!

Wings presents the graphic journey. Eleven of Bernardo’s favorite personal projects and collaborative works he did for example with Viva con Agua, the Forward Festival, or the porcelain factory Rosenthal. And then, there is a selection of eighty Be Water My Friend posters, created to practice and explore his visual voice. Clear compositions in black and white within a spectrum of typography, illustration, and infographics.

Part two, Roots, outlines the theoretic foundation of Rafael Bernardo’s experience. The introduction of the Be Water My Friend methodology. An analytic system that he developed after he found out, that water behaves like creativity works.

It describes the progress of development as a clockwork, divided into three levels. Context in the outside, motivation in the center, and process as the connecting part in-between. It is a tool to connect the way we think with the way we feel by examining how we shape and navigate our processes, projects, and routines.

Bernardo believes that everybody experiences creativity in a different way but that its structures and functionalities work similar for all of us. The first question is always whether you know what you want, if you love doing it, and if you are good at it. The second question is whether you know how to find the little hidden mistakes, that hold you back from getting better. This book wants to inspire creative performers to see mindset and intuition as team-players and shows how to connect and tune them to each other by reflecting on time, dreams, and potentials.

Since water runs in cycles and “nomen est omen,” the book will be printed on three different kinds of 100% recycled paper, used water-based colors, and chose a printer that compensates for its carbon-footprint. The format is 16 × 24 cm, the spot color is Pantone 032U, all fonts in the layout except from one that Bernardo made himself are designed by newglyph.

Be Water My Friend

Concept & Design: Rafael Bernardo
Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Volume: 224 pages
Language: English
Colors: Black (water based) and spot color Pantone 032U
Cover: Triptychon soft-cover
Binding: Swiss brochure with an open spine, stitched with red thread
Printing: Stober 
Paper: 3 kinds of 100% recycled paper by IGEPA (cover: Kingdom XT-S Recy White; Roots: Circle Volume White; Wings: Circle Offset Premium White)
Typefaces: Antarctica Bold, Atacama Condensed, and Africa Rainfall by newglyph

Support “Be Water My Friend” on Kickstarter and preorder a copy or grab one of the rewards such as a tote bag, silkprint, or workshop with Rafael Bernardo.

 

 

NN Didot Modern

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

Didot Modern is the result of a collaboration between Arnaud Chemin and Nouvelle Noire that started in 2019. It is a hybrid typeface consisting of ten weights, combining upright and italic styles. The letters’ general proportions refer back to the Didones from the French printing tradition, and they are mixed with expressive features invoking geometry and minimalism. Their flat endings, sharp triangular serifs, and a multitude of stylistic features bring the historic Didot legacy into the new digital area where elegance and classicism meet technology and rationalism.

Didot Modern is a typeface for text composition of all kinds. With its delicate thin strokes and precise details, it reveals its beauty, especially in large sizes. Through its expressivity, the typeface is tailor-made to convey products with a sense of high aesthetic value, such as in luxury branding. It is also well designed to enhance corporate and advertising projects. It is distinct and unique enough to stand apart from other Didot-style typefaces such as Bodoni, Scotch Roman, Baskerville, or Walbaum. Its emphasis lies on the overall digital feeling the typeface conveys.

The typeface is a tribute to the Didot archetype. It blends original drawings from different historical sources. The design of the regular cuts is based on various examples: Nicolas Pierre Gando’s imitations of Didot, Ludwig & Mayer’s Didone and Jules Didot trois et demi. While the black styles were inspired by the normande style, like Figgins’s French gros canons.

However, Didot Modern is not just a melt of history. Arnaud Chemin explains: “By removing the mannerist aspects of some details, the letterforms gained in simplicity. Traditional flourishes such as the teardrop endings looked too baroque. They belong to the past and no longer reflect our contemporary environment. I followed the same path Imre Reiner took almost a hundred years ago to design the Corvinus typeface. It is an experiment on modernizing high contrast letterforms, giving them a more mechanical look.”

Last but not least, Didot Modern benefits from a broad stylistic set, which contains alternate characters (A R Q V W a f g j r t v w y) based on the aesthetic of Grotesk typefaces. Arnaud Chemin describes them, noting that “there was an interesting aspect in combining these different styles. The Grotesk construction is directly inherited from Clarendon, which itself is inherited from the Didot-style typefaces. There is a common ground which allows a good hybridization, and the result is great!”

Arnaud Chemin is a young emergent French type designer. Born in 1994, he started studying design in 2009, attending the applied Arts courses in Reims. In 2012 Arnaud moved to Paris, where he was formed as a print graphic designer. These initial studies led to a bachelor’s degree from the ÉSAD Amiens in 2018, where he delved into interactive media and typography. In 2019, he completed an MA in type design at ÉCAL in Lausanne. In 2020, he graduated from the Type and Media master’s degree program at the KABK in The Hague. While studying, Arnaud worked as an intern for Typofonderie under the guidance of Jean-François Porchez. He also worked for Black[Foundry], where he was involved in custom type design projects. To this date, he maintains an author’s practice by publishing retail projects such as Didot Modern. As an independent type designer, Arnaud is quite critical regarding his work and places quality over quantity, no matter the time required. Besides designing typefaces, Arnaud occasionally teaches calligraphy and layout design or gives lectures at type design conferences.

Didot Modern

Foundry: Nouvelle Noire Type Foundry
Designer: Arnaud Chemin
Release: November 2021
File Formats: otf, woff, woff2, (variable fonts) + trial fonts
Weights: Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic
Price: starting from 60.– CHF
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4th Session TypeTechMeetUp

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

The final and 4th Session TypeTechMeetUp with the Type, Design, and Society theme will take place on November 19th, 2021, starting at 4:30 p.m. (CET) for about 2.5 hours followed by a relaxing online Chill & Chat. View teaser here.

For this final session we have the brilliant Fiona Ross together with renowned designer and researcher Alice Savoie, design educator Rafael Dietzsch, and Senior Lecturer Sumanthri Samarawickrama as main speakers, followed by two shorter presentations by design entrepreneur Liron Lavi Turkenich and assistant curator Shani Avni, and creative director Isabel Lea. Co-curator and president of GRANSHAN Boris Kochan will this time also join as speaker.

After this first part we’ll have a socializing/networking break with possibilities of private conversations or just hanging out in the virtual room with other participants and speakers.

In addition, participants will receive two cuts of Protipo plus icon font for free.

4th Session TypeTechMeetUp

When?
November 19th, 2021
starting at 4:30 p.m.

Where?
Online

Registration is open here

Junge Grafik N°1

Posted on by Junge Grafik

The board members of the Junge Grafik association invested more than two years of preparation for this moment. “It is great to see everything come together tonight. The winners of Junge Grafik N°1 will be celebrated and will be able to meet and network with important people from the graphic design industry here on site. We have been working towards this moment,” says Loana Boppart, who is responsible for the project.

Young Graphic Design From All Over Switzerland
The promotional award for young graphic talents in training is unique in Switzerland. The concept was developed in close cooperation with the training institutions and professional associations, which supported the project from the very beginning. Particularly pleasing: the call for entries was answered by students of all levels of training and all educational institutions in all language regions of Switzerland! Thus, Junge Grafik provides an insight into the future of Swiss Graphic Design. “Swiss graphic design is part of the world’s cultural heritage,” says Boppart, “so we are correspondingly pleased that this is being carried forward by young talent with just as much enthusiasm.”

Quantity and Quality
From the more than 300 entries from all parts of Switzerland, a nine-member jury of renowned Swiss graphic designers selected 30 winning entries at the end of August. The high standard did not make it easy for the jury members. Meret Fischli, in charge of the jury, is pleased with the high quality of the entries: “Outstanding works are produced at Swiss schools—this assumption was the reason for our award. The entries have confirmed the assumption and definitely exceeded our expectations!”

A total of 300 guests gathered at Lucerne’s Neubad last Saturday for the Award Night to celebrate the winning works—and the people behind them. Presenter Monika Schärer led through the evening in a relaxed manner and in four languages (!). In addition to a goodie bag with various professional articles from the numerous sponsors, the winners also received a small amount of money. In addition, their work is the focus of the first Junge Grafik publication, which was published at the Award Night and can now be purchased on the Junge Grafik website. At the following after party, people danced, and celebrated until the early hours of the morning.

The Winning Works Travel On
With the successful award ceremony, however, the first edition of Junge Grafik is far from being history. It was only the starting signal for a traveling exhibition: Until October 17th, the winning works have been on display at the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival in Lucerne, after which the exhibition will make stops at educational institutions in Zurich, Sierre, and Geneva.

Despite the touring exhibition, things are likely to be a little quieter for a while in the coming months. Nina Ruppen, responsible for media and exhibition at Junge Grafik: “Since the competition is held every two years, we have a short break. But I’m already looking forward to the second round in 2023—and the many new works and faces we’ll get to know through it!”

Get more information about the winners and the exhibitions here

Typodarium 2022

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

The Typodarium 2022—a classic among type calendars brings type inspiration day by day. 248 type designers from 35 countries all over the world show fresh fonts and trendy typefaces. Fancy fonts, long-lasting reading fonts and noble ornamental fonts. There is something for every taste and every occasion! The robust box in which the Typodarium 2022 is packaged is a treasure chest for creatives who swear by the Power of Type.

Zoom, Teams, and Wonder.me: the screen has dominated our everyday lives. This makes the antithesis all the more valuable: Handmade is king! That’s why, on Sundays and holidays, the Typodarium 2022 will be showing typefaces that were created with scissors and pencils, with tape and stamps. On Sundays, it can be imperfect, a bit rough with edges and corners, strong in character and an eye-catcher.

Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit not only have their ear close to the pulse of the typo scene, they are integral parts of it. Every year, they manage to track down the hippest new creations in type design and discover new type designers before they are on everyone’s lips and in everyone’s designs. Over the years, the two editors have developed an unerring sense for the grassroots movements of serifs—so Typodarium 2022 brings a breath of fresh air to agencies and production departments, to magazine and book design, to web and print, packaging and fashion. And on your desk.

Typodarium 2022

Editors: Lars Harmsen, Raban Ruddigkeit
Publisher: Verlag Hermann Schmidt
Design: Jonas Rose
Format: 8.5 × 12 cm
Volume: 384 pages in 12 colors, printed on both sides
Language: English
Specials: Packaged in a sturdy collecting box for archiving the type samples
EAN: 42 6017281 089 0
Price: € 19.80
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Photos, except for the start image: © Verlag Hermann Schmidt

Wochenender

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

The books of the Wochenender series are companions for trips and short getaways to great areas that are not far from the big cities. Shown are wonderful places, shops, stores, and places to stay. For a weekend or longer, at any time of the year.

The idea for the Wochenender was developed over many years in the mind of Elisabeth Frenz. She is a photojournalist in Hamburg and has been traveling to the North Sea with her family for a long time. And she thought it was time to share this passion.

Wochenender is the travel book to get away for self-confessed city folks who want to treat themselves to some time out in nature without a long trip. It presents large and small places of longing, special restaurants, hotels, and stores that stand out from mainstream tourism. Through the imagery and selection of locations, the style of the “Instagram generation” is incorporated and thus opens up new, young target groups for the region. Wochenender fits in any pocket, is taken everywhere, is allowed to lie in the sand and collect tracks, and is then put back on the bookshelf. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who loves beautiful places and enjoys discovering new ones. The nice thing is that Wochenender is timeless and relevant all year round.

The latest release in the Wochenender series is Brandenburg Südwesten. Just beyond Berlin city borders lies: Brandenburg. It is wild and lonely, but at the same time it is a land of arts. Around Potsdam, princes, kings, and emperors have created a unique world-heritage-landscape with numerous castles, manor houses, and gardens. Because it has always been greener, bluer, and simply more relaxed there than in Berlin. Further south, nature can be found in sheer endless forests, rolling hills, and wide meadows, blooming heaths and lots and lots of water. This is how the southwest of Brandenburg can also be explored from the water.

We now have some issues in our store. Have a look there!

WOCHENENDER—BRANDENBURG SÜDWESTEN
ISBN 978-3-9819748-9-8
Price: €18.–
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WOCHENENDER—LIEBLINGSORTE FÜR FAMILIEN IN UND UM HAMBURG
ISBN 978-3-9822646-2-2
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—BRANDENBURG NORDOSTEN
ISBN 978-3-9822646-0-8
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—HOFLÄDEN UND MANUFAKTUREN UM HAMBURG
ISBN ISBN: 978-3-9819748-8-1
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—ST. PETER-ORDING & EIDERSTEDT
ISBN 978-3-9819748-7-4
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—NORDSEEKÜSTE
ISBN 978-3-9819748-6-7
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—SEEN UND WÄLDER UM HAMBURG
ISBN 978-3-9819748-5-0
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—DIE ELBE
ISBN 978-3-9819748-4-3
Price: € 18.–
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WOCHENENDER—LÜNEBURGER HEIDE
ISBN 978-3-9819748-3-6
Price: € 18.–
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Medienhaus Lectures 2021

Posted on by Henrike Uthe

Among other things, design is always performance. The Medienhaus Lectures 2021 take a look at performance in design beyond the moment of presentation. Type, color, materiality, etc. are design elements that have their own performativity. The same is true for the human body. So could the design process be considered a performance? How diverse are the bodies involved? How differentiated is the body image in the field of design? And, what are the performative effects on bodies of norms and rules derived from that? Performance! prompts the Medienhaus Lectures 2021 together with guests from design, art, and theory to bring the body into play.

Medienhaus Lectures 2021

Organization: Annika Haas (UdK, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Gestaltung), Henrike Uthe (UdK, Institut für Transmediale Gestaltung)
Contributors: Pasquale Virginie Rotter, Anna Jehle & Juliane Schickedanz (Kunsthalle Osnabrück), David Liebermann, Maximilian Kiepe & Jana Reddemann (Liebermann Kiepe Reddemann), Katharina Brenner, Ece Canlı, Hannah Witte, Katharina Ludwig, Claire Finch
Design: Jonas Gerber, Nour Al Safadi, Lea Verholen

When?
November 17th, 2021, 10 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
November 18th, 2021, 2 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Where? 

Online:
Live-Stream: TBA

On-site:
Medienhaus, Aula
Universität der Künste
Grunewaldstraße 2 – 5 
10823 Berlin
U Kleistpark

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Typeface of the Month: Everett Mono

Posted on by Clara Weinreich

With the month of November, we want to introduce you to our new Typeface of the Month: Everett Mono. The monospace version of the already very well developed Everett from the Swiss type foundry TYPE.WELTKERN®.

A monospace version of Everett has always been part of the project, since its very beginning in 2015. At this point, only the Mono Regular cut existed and grew over time alongside its normal, proportional siblings. The typographic program became then more ambitious: translating 20 styles of Everett—its wide proportions and distinctive cuts—into single fixed-size blocks proved to be really challenging. The design had to find creative ways to compress and carefully fine-tune the letterforms in order to keep a high level of legibility as well as the original Everett flavor.

All weights are designed to be used together; each glyph across the complete family shares the exact same width. A graphic peculiarity of Everett Mono is its ligatures, which occupies sometimes two, or even three blocks, resulting in a mechanical touch. Ultimately, Everett Mono is an independent subfamily on its own but at the same time also the perfect companion of Everett, which can be played together, like brothers and sisters.

Typeface of the Month: Everett Mono

Foundry: TYPE.WELTKERN®
Designer: Nolan Paparelli
Release: October 2021
File Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Styles / widths / weights: 20 styles: 10 weights + 10 Italics
Base price: 99.– CHF / cut
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Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

The Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021 is the world’s most important book fair, as well as an outstanding social and cultural event. This year it could finally take place again with an audience.

We visited the book fair to get an idea of the latest trends and publications from the world of design books. Among them were the award-winning publications of the Stiftung Buchkunst. There were many exceptional books to see, which we were able to browse through.

Among all the new publications, we also discovered our tear-off calendar Typodarium 2022, which was presented at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021 at the booth of the German publishing house Verlag Hermann Schmidt. At the stand of the FH-Dortmund we could find exciting works of students as well as the two publications 100 Poster Battle and Will Feel Eyes on.

Since 1976, the Frankfurt Book Fair has welcomed a different country or region as Guest of Honor each year. This year, the guest country Canada presented a purely digital installation under the motto Singular Plurality. Scattered letters floated on wave-like installations and you could meet authors digitally via a screen. In fact, there was not a single physical book to see in the pavilion, but instead a multimedia experience to be enjoyed.

Although the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021 could be held again, it was a fair under very special conditions. There were much fewer exhibitors and “3G rule” (you had to be vaccinated, recovered, or tested.) In total, only 25,000 visitors were allowed to come to the fair every day instead of 300,000 and 1,500 exhibitors were presented instead of 7,000 as in previous years—and you could feel that. That led to the fact that one could take a better look at the individual publications, but the variety was unfortunately rather limited.

We hope you enjoy looking at our review pictures and hope to see you again next year at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

For anyone for whom the digital Film Festival Cologne is not enough, the matching print magazine Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder is now available in Slanted Shop!

Die Macht der Bilder (engl. The Power of Images) is the common thread running through the program of this year’s FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE. The festival with its film screenings, the supporting program, and all the opportunities for personal exchange. The festival took place this year from October 21st to 28th. Once again, the festival presents the world’s most important trends and outstanding works of audiovisual storytelling.

FFCGN—FAST FORWARD is what moves everyone, a digital magazine for moving images and pop culture. And that’s not all: This moving content was kept moving and transferred into a printed form! Ready is the first print edition of FFCGN—FAST FORWARD.

Connections are important. The origin of the new idea is the FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE. 30 years of experience with moving images. 30 years of exchange with the community. Of course, the FILM FESTIVAL COLOGNE is an integral part of the digital as well as the print magazine. Here as well as there you can find information about the program of the festival weeks, from which a lot of inspiration can be drawn in the future. But FFCGN—FAST FORWARD has more to offer than just the festival. For example, this magazine Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder as part of the content platform that unites everything.

What touches us in everyday life? Social media is exploding. Memes, GIFs, reels, listicles. A poll or a quiz on Instagram. The world of images and signs has taken off violently due to such formats. FFCGN—FAST FORWARD is meant to pick up the momentum instead of merely being carried away by images. Where the surfaces seem most appealing, the magazine Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder goes into the depths. First of all, this means holding up a mirror to our own fascination.

Film Festival Cologne—Die Macht der Bilder

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor-in-Chief: Martina Richter
Head of Text: Wolfgang Frömberg
Art Director: Holger Risse
Managing Editor: Marie Lomberg
Editorial: Ivan Morales Jr., Emilia Stein, Johannes Hessen, Till Stein, Leonard Ulmen
Picture Editor: Viktoria Grünwald
Extractors: Naama Heiman, Kirsten Ross
Design: Lars Harmsen, Melville Brand Design
Release: October 2021
Printing: Stober
Volume: 176 pages
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-948440-34-3
Price: € 18.–
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Pleasure

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

With great “pleasure” we would like to introduce you to the newly released typeface Pleasure by Pizza Typefaces.

The Pleasure font is almost a running grotesque font. However, its geometric shapes did not resist the urge to be led, for certain letters, to an extrapolation of the terminals by converting them into loops. A characteristic that gives the typeface an original taste and a certain irony in the rolling of the eyes.

Launched in March 2020 by Mothi Limbu of FlirtStudio, Pleasure is characterized by a particularly fresh and witty approach, but also by the ability to combine soft but well-balanced letterforms.

Within a year, Pizza Typefaces has made some corrections and developed the entire character set, supporting all Latin languages. Alternative shapes have been added, which can be find sorted by families in the corresponding style sets.

Pleasure offers a total of 20 styles in two different families: Standard and Inktrap. There are Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black weights. All weights have a windy companion as Italics.

Pizza Typefaces is constantly striving to offer a variable font. That is why the typeface is also available in a flexible format where three axes can be adjusted. The customizable axes are weight, inktrap, and italic.

Also the typeface’s website is very entertaining—you can discover the typeface in an experimental way and it’s fun to click through.

Pleasure

Foundry: Pizza Typefaces
Designer: FlirtStudio (Mothi Limbu) and Borho Studio
Development: Borho Studio
Release: 2021
Styles: 20 styles in 2 families
Price: € 45.– per style, € 150.– Family, € 300.– for Pleasure Variable
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Slanted Magazine #38—COLOURS

Posted on by Julia Kahl

Joan Miro said: “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” Ultimately, Slanted Magazine #38—Colours is an ode to the joy and happiness of life with all its gradations of symbolism and meaningful implications. Color is more than just fashion. It is a statement for an entire era!

In the spring of 2021, Slanted Publishers launched a global call for submissions and showcases of color. From more than 1,300 submissions, the works of 300 designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, and artists from around the world were selected to be part of this issue. It celebrates happiness, joy of life, power, symbolism, and the meaning of color. Find the most colorful typography, gradients, fun, chaos, shock, and contrast and celebrate art, illustration, fashion, photography, and of course the most colorful and meaningful graphic design from all over the world! 

Beside the issue two very limited special editions have been published: A high quality sweater from Reell with a colorful design by Kris Andrew Small and a set of postcards printed with vivid colors by Herr & Frau Rio on a risograph.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all participants of the issue who made a significant contribution to the result. Many thanks also to all supporters and sponsors, without whom the magazine would not have been possible in these special times. Thank you very much!

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: October 2021
Volume: 288 pages
Format: 16 × 24 × 2 cm
Language: English
Printing: 5 color offset printing, Stober
Cardboard Cover: Algro Design®, 330 g/sm by Inapa
Paper: galaxi®keramik, 130 g/sm, Pop’Set lime tonic, citrus yellow, sky blue, sunshine yellow 120 g/sm by Inapa
Bookbinding: Swiss brochure, thread stitching
ISSN: 1867-6510
Price: € 18.–

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The Kinship Method

Posted on by SamBou

If you are interested in processes, artistic work, design, and its place within production this book is a perfect fit! Through experiments, “design therapy” and alternative methods, the book The Kinship Method tells the story about the experimental design project The Kinship Method, that took place 2018 to 2019.

It’s a story and example of how a practice based project can grow knowledge and contribute to change the designer role. As well as questioning the ideas of how design should be done and why we should make a “fun revolution.”

Five designers are challenged to break patterns in order to find new styles and methods.It starts individually with the designing of a chair each, only to be infiltrated by each other’s shapes in the following two stages. Each chair moves on to the next designer, who in turn must use 20–40% of the chair’s form elements for a new chair. Consequently, fragments, pieces, and artistic expressions are inherited from the previous generation. Everything is done under time pressure and with no insight into what the others are doing. There are now three generations with a total of fifteen chairs that are related to each other. Each generation of chairs is followed by a group discussion where they reflect on: What happens to the style and design? What happens within us? What can we learn? Does it create diversity, development, or conformity?

The purpose of the project is not to make the best chairs or the best design. After following the project one might assume that it is about processing any possible design traumas, challenging authorship, finding new ways to collaborate. But for the initiator Margot Barolo, those three are just ingredients, or means, for developing new ideas on alternative designer roles and design production. All that she will reveal in this book.

It can be seen as an instruction, as well as a debate post, or an inspiration. For all of you who are interested in processes, artistic work, design, and its place within production and goods this book are of interest.

The participating designers are Margot Barolo, Andreas Nobel, Erik Björk, Mia Cullin, and Fredrik Paulsen.

The Kinship Method

Publisher: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Text: Margot Barolo, Salka Hallström Bornold, Andreas Nobel, Mia Cullin, Erik Björk, Fredrik Paulsen
Editors: Margot Barolo, Salka Hallström Bornold
Graphic Design: Samira Bouabana, John Bengtsson. Photo: Karin Björkquist
Language: English
Volume: 110 pages
Format: 191 × 254 mm
Workmanship: Swiss softcover
Release: February, 2021
ISBN: 978-91-89270-08-4
Price: € 25.–
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Frankfurt Airport, April 2020

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

Frankfurt Airport, April 2020 is a book that captures the surreal time in the pandemic year 2020 and takes an unusual look at Frankfurt Airport in a state of exception.

At Frankfurt Airport, up to seven million people a month embarked on their journeys before Corona. Photographer Marc Krause documented the empty airport at the height of the lockdown in April 2020.

Where jetliners used to take off every few minutes, nearly everything has ground to a halt. The bright blue sky above the tarmac is serene, the contrails have disappeared, the endless corridors are eerily deserted. In April 2020, at the height of the first lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic, the photographer Marc Krause explored Frankfurt Airport with his analog camera to capture the strange calm of this “non-place.”

Without the hectic hustle and bustle of pre-pandemic times, he noticed things that are usually drowned out by the rushing crowds: the geometric lines of the constructivist architecture, the changing patterns of light and shade, the junk left behind by travelers in vast halls that would be teeming with thousands of people on a normal day. Offering a fascinating glimpse of a seemingly surreal world, this publication is an unsettling testimony to a historic moment in time and a powerful photo book that leaves viewers torn between melancholy and hopeful longing.

Frankfurt Airport, April 2020

Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Photographer: Marc Krause
Designer: Victor Balko
Author: Florian Siebeck
Volume: 80 pages
Release: October 2021
Format: 20 × 30 cm
ISBN: 978-3-86206-923-1
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Brik

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Today we would like to share a new typeface with you. BurnType Studio and Foundry in collaboration with The Designers Foundry, proudly present the fully remastered Brik type family.

It is a zero bullshit type family available in five weights across regular, condensed, and oblique sub-families. Its blatant brick-like construction is honest, coarse, and unapologetic. The family features characteristic hard angles, chunky corners, and exaggerated ink traps that give it its distinct edge. These hardened features are met with subtle curves and strokes that add contrast and finesse to its purposefully rigid foundation.

Revisited throughout 2020, Brik is now whipped into prime fighting shape. The fat has been trimmed, sporting expanded glyph support, completely new kerning, and reconstructed letters. Brik looks great huge, but now works even better at scale. Especially with larger bodies of text.

Brik is sold cheap as individual slices, or can be bundled together in full variable glory. The type family is crafted with love and a New Yawk attitude by BurnType in 2020/21.

In keeping with the name of the font, a limited edition of 69 bricks with hand-pressed “BRIK” font in 185 pt Brik XL is available for purchase. If the brick is too heavy, A1 specimen posters are also for sale.

BurnType is a small studio specializing in creating bold fonts that balance function with expression. The studio is run by founder Michael Bagnardi in Brooklyn, New York.

Brik

Foundry: The Designers Foundry
Designer: BurnType
Release: June 2021
Styles: Five weights across Regular, Condensed, and Oblique sub-families
Price: $25.– per Style, $250.– for the full family
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Kiss the Messenger

Posted on by Franzi Haeussner

We are happy to announce that Kiss the Messenger — Communication for Creatives is now available at Slanted Shop!  The publication is a German handbook for public relations and media work. It is tailored to the needs of architects, designers, photographers, graphic artists, artists, project managers, and start-ups—in short, to entrepreneurs who strive for more publicity for their content as a one-man show or in a team.

In Kiss the Messenger hands-on and practical, experienced PR expert Ana Berlin guides through first press campaigns in this handbook, reveals tricks, and writes entertainingly about the possibilities of contemporary public relations. The work provides insight into the channels available today, both online and offline, and covers PR topics in a condensed manner. From developing stories and preparing them for the media, to the right timing, to building up a press distribution list, to imagery and social media use–the guidelines described in Kiss the Messenger provide a basis for attracting media attention and being heard by the desired audience.

Ana Berlin is founder of the PR agency a b c works and based in Vienna. She is specialized in clients and projects in architecture, art, design, literature, and the creative industries.

Kiss the Messenger

Publisher: POOL Publishing
Author: Ana Berlin
Language: German
Format in cm: 16 × 21 cm
Volume: 180 pages
Release: February 2021
Workmanship: soft cover
ISBN: 978-3-9504596-8-5
Price: € 15.–
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