Latinotype

Posted on by Nina Steimel

Today, we would like to present you Latinotype, a Chilean independent type foundry:

The power of letters combining to form words to communicate thought is monumental. From scribbling on cave walls and stone tablets, to writing on paper and typing them out, words have been a fundamental part of life as we know it for thousands of years. Words tell our story, evoke emotion and action. They are essential. 

And so Latinotype formed, a group of graphic designers, type designers, account managers, translators, and programmers dedicated to making the most out of words. Based in Chile, the foundry began in 2008 as the first typeface distributor in Latin America. Since then, they have grown into a dynamic team of typography lovers with more than 200 original fonts, and they distribute many more. If their library does not have what you’re looking for, they will create the font you need to make each word of yours carry the meaning it deserves. 

Fonts like Abstract, created during a pandemic, a contemporary and eclectic serif typeface with a generous family, including a true italic variant that has a personality of its own.

Straight lines combined with curves and triangular shapes, Águila and its set of more than 400 characters supports over 200 Latin-based languages. Another singular font in Latinotype’s portfolio. 

The foundry prides itself on creating and distributing fresh fonts, and Apparel is a testament to that. Apparel is the perfect blend of class and freshness. Times New Roman meets Caslon.

In case it’s not yet clear, their library is extensive and varied. Offering superfamily fonts such as Galeana, a flat-sided san serif typeface that features a closed aperture, representative of their Latin American roots. Top-sellers such as Juana, based on the Jazmín typeface that offers an extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes for balance and poise. 

Kenac, distinct yet practical, particularly fit for headlines, headers, anything to accentuate brand identity. And then a whiplash to Winden, a slab-serif typeface that wants to be seen, giving off a modern feel. 

Add a varied library like theirs to an array of customization options and it’s clear why Latinotype has grown to become a well-known and trusted source for fresh fonts. Modifications, customizations, and all the options in-between, this foundry is a household name when it comes to making words stand out.

For more details, the “finer print,” visit the Latinotype website. The main purpose as of now is that this foundry formed by Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernández is now on your radar, if it wasn’t already. Ample options and services make Latinotype a source to bookmark.

Limited Special Edition A.I. LOQI Bag

Posted on by Julia Kahl

On the occasion of our upcoming issue Slanted Magazine #37—AI (end of May), a limited special edition of 200 pieces has been produced. We teamed up with Berlin-based brand LOQI to create a water resistant bag of high-quality presenting the artwork Neural Zoo by Sofia Crespo.

Neural Zoo is an exploration of the ways creativity works: the recombination of known elements into novel ones. These images resemble nature, but it is an imagined nature that has been rearranged. Our visual cortex recognizes the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to.

Computer vision and machine learning could offer a bridge between us and a speculative “natures” that can only be accessed through high levels of parallel computation. Starting from the level of our known reality, we could ultimately be digitizing cognitive processes and utilizing them to feed new inputs into the biological world, which feeds back into a cycle. Routines in artificial neural networks become a tool for creation, one that allows for new experiences of the familiar.

Can art be reduced to the remapping of data absorbed through sensory processes?

Artist: Sofia Crespo
Brand: LOQI
Format: 50 × 42 cm / 11.5 × 11.5 cm (zip pocket)
Handles: 27 cm
Material: Polyester, STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® certified
Weight: 56 g
Load Capacity: 20 kg
Edition: 200 pieces
Price: 11.99 €

BUY here or SUBSCRIBE to Slanted Magazine until June 30th, 2021, and receive the bag as a gift for free!

Kapsel Magazin

Posted on by Nina Steimel

Today is a perfect day to browse our Slanted Shop and discover new publications. Therefore we would like to present you Kapsel magazine, which is worth a look:

Kapsel is dedicated to science fiction from China. Each issue presents a short story that has never before been published in Germany. At the same time, the issues start a conversation about the future, China and literature.

The story in the third issue is entitled 绝对诊断 Kapsel 03 – Die perfekte Diagnose (Engl.: The Perfect Diagnosis) and was written by Jiang Bo from Shanghai. In it, the computer scientist shows the limits of Big Data and artificial intelligence. Nothing is as it first seems in this short narrative, which was first published in China in 2018. With contributions by Ken Liu, Chen Qiufan, A Que, Josefine Rieks, Wolfgang M. Schmitt, Tim Holland, and Nathaniel Isaacson. Illustrated by Martha Burger, Malte Euler, Robert Löbel, Jul Quanouai, Katharina Reinsbach, Christoph Köster, and Julius Wagner.

In Kapsel 04 – Träume (Engl.: Dreams), a special issue, new ideas of the future are sought and discussed. How do we want to live? What do people in China and Germany dream of? Baoshu, Anja Kümmel, Tim Holland and Anna Wu have each written their own positive vision of the future. These are discussed and illustrated by the authors Hendrik Otremba, Josefine Rieks and Ann Cotten, the researcher Jiang Zhenyu, and the artists Ruohan Wang, Julia Krusch, Robert Löbel, Christoph Köster, Haojun Pan, and Wang Yuan.

Kapsel Magazin Issue 03 and 04 

Publisher: Fruehwerk Verlag
Editing: Lukas Dubro, Felix Meyer zu Venne, Frederike Schneider Vielsäcker & Chong Shen
Design: Marius Wenker
Language: German
Format in cm (w × h × d): 29.7 × 19.4 × 0.5 cm
Volume: 72 pages
Release: September 2020 (Kapsel 03) & February 2021 (Kapsel 04)
ISBN: 978-3-941295-20-9
Buy Kapsel 03 and Kapsel 04

Echoing Exhibition Views

Posted on by A.R.

When the exhibition enters the digital realm, as it is increasingly happening now when the display of art and culture can be enjoyed individually behind screens, then how does the exhibition view diffuse optically, technically, and culturally? And how does this transformation echo the new understanding of subjectivity?

Echoing Exhibition Views — Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times explores the different medialities and intersubjective shifts that follow the moment of seeing a physical exhibition today. It takes the digitized exhibition view as starting point for artistic and theoretic reflections on post-digital culture, hyperreality, and its relation to subjectivity.

With images from João Enxuto and Erica Love, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, New Noveta/Yair Oelbaum, SANY, Hanna Stiegeler, Jasmin Werner, and Jonas Paul Wilisch, as well as texts by Melanie Bühler, Erika Landström, and Agnieszka Roguski, this publication gathers artists, curators, and writers who frame these questions through a variety of practices and media. The book and its manufacturing parameters play a significant role in this, as the reproduction in the book adds another level of transformation. To include this in our debate, we deviate from the production standard, instead of CMYK we print RGB (only with red, green, and blue). But of course the web color space cannot simply be transferred to print. This results in subtle color shifts that are irritating. It thus addresses a self-reflexive and critical approach on medium and format—understanding the exhibition as a fluid and diverse view.

Echoing Exhibition Views — Subjectivity in Post-Digital Times

Editing and design A.R. practice: (Agnieszka Roguski and Ann Richter)
Publisher: Onomatopee
Release: 2020
Format: 17 × 24 cm
Volume: 80 pages
Edition: 900 copies
Language: English
Paper: Invercote G 280 g/m²,  arctic volume white 130 g/m², offset 100 g/m² bulk 1.2
Color: Three spot color printing (RGB). For the 3-color print it is Pantone Blue 072 + Red 032 + 354. For the 1-color print it is Pantone Blue 072.
Image specs: 45 images in full color (respectively in three colors), 22 images in one color
Details: UV spot varnish on cover
ISBN 978-94-93148-23-9
Price: 14.– Euro
Buy

Making of Slanted Magazine #37—AI

Posted on by Julia Kahl

Slanted Magazine #37—AI (Artificial Intelligence) is in production and will be out soon! The cover was digitally printed by Limego, no two are alike, each magazine has a unique design by the artist duo Crosslucid. The content was offset printed by our longtime partner Stober Medien on Fedrigoni’s wonderful papers.

Available for preorder at a discounted price for a short time only or subscribe to Slanted Magazine until June 30th and receive the limited special edition bag by LOQI with an artwork by Sofia Crespo for free!

The Absurdity of the Moment

Posted on by Nina Steimel

We would like to invite you to visit the poster exhibition The Absurdity of the Moment — Letterpress Posters by Dafi Kühne which will take place at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich until August 1st, 2021. In addition to the exhibition in the museum, there is also the possibility to view the posters online.

In early 2020, the new, highly contagious Coronavirus began to spread across the globe. Even Switzerland, an affluent country with little experience in dealing with crises, has been affected. One year after the lockdown, Swiss designer Dafi Kühne is showing a series of ten handmade letterpress-printed posters that serve as a visual diary. They convey his own changing state of mind, reflecting both the collective feeling of insecurity, and powerlessness, as well as experiences of a new form of deceleration and lived solidarity.

The Absurdity of the Moment

When?
April 22nd–August 1st, 2021

Where?
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Ausstellungs­strasse 60
8005 Zurich
Free entrance

Limited complete series of the posters as well as single prints are available for purchase by appointment at the studio in Näfels or on Dafi Kühne’s website. 

Science Notes Magazin

Posted on by Sandra Teschow

We are happy to present you the sixth issue of the Science Notes Magazin—Das Magazin für Wissen und Gesellschaft. 

Science Notes Magazin is “The Magazine for Science and Society,” as the subtitle translates. Which summarizes the magazine’s mission quite nicely: It wants to present science as an integral part of modern societies, as both inspired by and beneficial for these societies. Many science magazines concentrate on showing mere scientific outcomes, either with some kind of educational purpose or simply for entertainment. Science Notes Magazin wants to tell the whole story, however: It wants to report on the (long and often bumpy) processes that lead (or do not lead) to scientific results; it wants to show the people behind these processes and their ideas, ideals, and motivation. It wants to let readers take part in science and get a feeling for how scientists work and what science can do—and also, equally important, what science cannot do.

With this more holistic approach, they also want the graphic design to be an integral part of science communication. The magazine wants to experiment with photography, illustration, and art as means to communicate science—and wants to give photographers, illustrators, and artists the possibility to develop their own visions in this respect. Each issue of Science Notes Magazin is monothematic. The sixth issue was published on April 1st, 2021, dealing with “Wilderness.” Together with Illustrator Janik Söllner, Art Director Sandra Teschow has designed the magazine. Janik has provided each page with a colorful variety of illustrations—a true wilderness that romps about from cover to cover.

Science Notes Magazin—Das Magazin für Wissen und Gesellschaft

Publisher: Science Notes
Editors: Olaf Kramer & Thomas Susanka
Art Direction, Illustration, and Design: Sandra Teschow & Janik Söllner
Volume: 104 pages
Format: 22 × 28.5 cm
Paper: Circle Offset
Printing: Offizin Scheufele, Stuttgart
Edition: No. #6: 5,000 copies
Language: German
EAN: 13_419138790600_2_06
Price: € 6.–
Buy online or in train station bookstores and selected bookstores

Typeface of the Month: Albula Pro

Posted on by Nina Steimel

We are happy to present our new Typeface of the Month: Albula Pro by the young type design studio Serpentype based in Zurich, Switzerland. 

Albula Pro is a contemporary geometric sans with a charismatic and elegant touch. Inspired by geometry and enhanced with unique form-details. The shapes are optically corrected in order to ensure an excellent reading experience and a broad professional use. Albula Pro is an ideal choice to make your design and layout stand out. It performs perfectly in headlines as well as for branding purposes. When designing Albula Pro, great importance was attached to legibility, so that a good reading experience is guaranteed regardless the text length, which makes it an excellent option for editorial content.

Name/Story:
The Albula region of the Swiss Alps has lent its name to this typeface, with its alpine pass whose serpentines wind up to 2,315 m. The famous Albula–Bernina railroad line, with its imposing constructions from the pioneering period of infrastructure buildings, leads through this region. The mountain crossings are the gateway to the Engadin, a remote valley of captivating beauty. Since centuries geometry is deeply rooted in the local culture, most evident in their houses that have been decorated with geometric shapes so-called sgraffito for generations.

Process:
Silvio Meier created the first drafts of Albula Pro during his communication design studies at the Zurich School of Design in the Type Design module. Over the years and in creative exchange with various type designers, the typeface gained in finesse and quality. In recent months, Silvio Meier finalized the typeface together with type designer Barbara Bigosińska.

Typeface of the Month: Albula Pro

Foundry: Serpentype
Designer: Silvio Meier
Release: January 2021
Styles and Weights: 18 weights from Thin to Extra Bold and matching Obliques
Price Single Style: $ 40.–
Price Full Family: $ 272.–
Price  Basic Set: $ 80.–
Albula Pro Bold is available for free
Buy at Serpentype or MyFonts

GLYPHS—The Alphabetic Perfume Collection

Posted on by Autobahn

We would like to introduce you to Autobahn’s and Mark Buxton’s launch of GLYPHS—The Alphabetic Perfume Collection on Kickstarter from May 1st, 2021. Support the project now.

We can see, hear, and even feel letters, but how would it smell if our alphabet were available in scent? Rob Stolte of design agency Autobahn and master perfumer Mark Buxton have investigated this. It resulted in the first three unique and wearable to share perfumes that represent the historical origin of the letters A, B, and C. Autobahn and Buxton call it GLYPHS – The Alphabetic Perfume Collection and it is available on Kickstarter from May 1st, 2021. “Everyone who can write must know the origin of our alphabet,” says designer Rob Stolte from Autobahn, an internationally-awarded design studio specialized in typographic designs. When Stolte grew up, he had difficulty reading and writing. He would rather draw something than write it down. It frustrated him and he started to wonder where the shape of letters comes from. When Stolte discovered that letters are abstract images, this all changed. Take the historical origin of our letter A: it is actually the head of an ox. Turn the letter A upside down and you can still see the horns and head. “It offered me the opportunity to turn my weakness into a strength: express myself through typographic images and letters,” says Stolte. “Now we know where our letters come from, we also know how they smell.”

Capturing the scent of letters is no easy job. Autobahn and Buxton decided to go back to the origins of our alphabet, about which Autobahn made the acclaimed book A is van Os. It explains the history of our letters, which originated almost 4,000 years ago in the Sinai desert and come from images cut in stone: the A was an image of an Ox, the letter B stood for House, and the C for Boomerang. Perfumer Buxton has 25 years of experience and has designed perfumes for the largest luxury brands, including: Cartier, Comme des Garçons, and even a perfume for the film The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson. “Every perfumer in the niche perfume industry is looking for a project like GLYPHS. It is bigger than just a perfume, you tell a story with it. History is in the making.”

GLYPHS is a series of works of art captured in perfume. Each perfume is presented in a unique, handmade stone holder and a roller ball, to write directly onto your skin. The makers of GLYPHS looking for backers. On Kickstarter you can contribute to the realization of the project in different ways.

GLYPHS—The Alphabetic Perfume Collection

Concept & Design: Rob Stolte/Autobahn & Mark Buxton
Price set of three perfumes (A,B & C): € 225.–
Price single 15 ml: € 75.–

Support the project now on Kickstarter and find more information on their website 

TIMELINE

Posted on by slanted-api

The work TIMELINE commissioned for the exhibition Fiume Fantastika: Phenomena of the City presents a turbulent history of the city of Rijeka. From 1868 to the present day, Rijeka has been part of nine different states. Fifty illustrations deconstructed the rules, values and aesthetics inscribed in the most symbolic form of the society – 17 historic city and government flags. The front displays information on architecture, infrastructure, politics, economy and culture that shaped the city for the past 120 years. The illustrative back used the original color codes to suggest that we should not take the past literally, but analyse it, re-imagine and inscribe with new meaning.

Isolation

Posted on by slanted-api

How artificial has our world become? Is there still room for our desire for nature and originality? Are houseplants an expression of the desire to return?
How much care and attention do they need by being taken out of their “natural” habitat? Is it possible to bear this responsibility? In our living world, we create sterile germ-free spaces in bright colours. It is too clean. Mud and dirt have no place here, only the beautiful bright colours. But can living beings survive in the artificial worlds we have created? Or do they long too much for jungle, mud and nature?

TIMELINE

Posted on by slanted-api

Can we rethink our construct of time? And if so, can it be visualised and understood?

Timeline is a time-experiment inspired by the time models of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. His thoughts on the subject can be read on a folded map and can be internalized experimentally.

the studio of diego

Posted on by slanted-api

During my travels through Mexico City i got inspired by the House-Studio of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. It is one of the most important cultural landmarks of Mexico City. Not only for being the studios of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century but also for being on of the first construction of the modern movement in the American continent.

Positive Afterimage

Posted on by slanted-api

Afterimages occur when the photoreceptors in our retina are stimulated by light. They translate this stimulus into electrical impulses through a chemical reaction. These phantom images are still felt even when the original stimulus has faded away. They are usually perceived as bright spots after looking at the sun or another light source.

For that fun project I experimented with positive afterimages, documenting the colors and shapes I saw in my mind’s eye after looking into different light sources.

Bauwagenumzug

Posted on by slanted-api

This is a page out of my first picture book, ‘ausgebüxt’, which is about the difficult situation of zoos and their animals, as well as diversity, friendship, and dealing with situations you (later realize) feel guilty about. I love the joy of trying to draw certain things I’ve always struggled with, like clouds, cars, and crowded places.

Netloops

Posted on by slanted-api

Intersections, transitions, networks and cycles — these fundamental principles are integral parts of all complex systems surrounding us in the real world as much as in the ideational world. May it be natural ecosystems between animals, plants and the abiotic or may it be digital ecosystems between virtual entities made of codes and numbers. May it be physical networks like the mycorrhizae that connect billions and billions of plant roots and fungi on a microscopic level or may it be conceptual networks like our global community. May it be corporal connections like the innumerable synapses in each and every brain or may it be the countless thoughts, ideas and memories they connect.

Netloop

Posted on by slanted-api

ntersections, transitions, networks and cycles — these fundamental principles are integral parts of all complex systems surrounding us in the real world as much as in the ideational world. May it be natural ecosystems between animals, plants and the abiotic or may it be digital ecosystems between virtual entities made of codes and numbers. May it be physical networks like the mycorrhizae that connect billions and billions of plant roots and fungi on a microscopic level or may it be conceptual networks like our global community. May it be corporal connections like the innumerable synapses in each and every brain or may it be the countless thoughts, ideas and memories they connect.