l’enfer du nord

This poster started as a typographic experiment. I wanted to capture the rawness and weight of Paris–Roubaix and its rugged surroundings by creating a custom typeface inspired by the race’s iconic cobblestones.

Hero or Zero ?

The fine line between being celebrated and ignored often comes down to a few milliseconds or millimeters. Using a typeface associated with the visual language of Olympic sports, this composition shows how one letter can make the difference between being a Hero or being a Zero. The dedication and preparation of elite athletes are remarkably similar; the difference emerges in the final moment, when the smallest margin can be exponentially rewarding—or devastating.

Play on: Dynamic Squad

The biggest enemy of sport is every excuse not to show up, keep going, or simply give up. For Dynamic Squad, a basketball project inspiring children and young people to love the game, we created a campaign that activates their inner motivation coach. Under the motto “Play on,” it encourages them to get back up after every fall, setback or defeat. The emotional campaign launches a dynamic new brand identity whose typography makes the energy of basketball tangible.

RED STAR FC – BETON Season Campaign 25/26

The BETON campaign captures Red Star FC’s transformation by celebrating imperfection instead of hiding construction. Built around raw concrete textures, hand-cut typography and a reduced, minimal palette, it turns Stade Bauer’s renovation into an honest design language. As the club’s new identity, BETON bridges architecture and communication, turning resilience, truth and belonging into a lasting cultural statement.

Wiener Sport-Club

The campaign captures the unique spirit of Wiener Sport-Club by celebrating its history, humor and strong sense of community instead of relying on traditional football clichés. Built around authentic local expressions, a bold black-and-white visual language and the Tausend typeface by Christoph Koeberlin, it reflects the club’s identity with honesty and warmth. As the launch of a new brand identity, the campaign strengthened recognition, united supporters and became part of fan culture as poster

Sports in Type

The poster transforms Olympic sports including badminton, table tennis, tennis, basketball, and volleyball into images composed of dense characters and symbols. Type becomes both the basic unit of the image and a reference to how public sporting events are translated through text, data, and media. Familiar objects become strangely unfamiliar, yet remain recognizable through form and shared visual memory.

Bring It On Series 02

The poster was originally created for the 2026 Chinese Year of the Horse. A horse in motion is captured through deliberate blur, while distorted typography turns “放马过来 2026” and “BRING IT ON!” into traces of speed. The Chinese phrase plays on the horse itself while also meaning to accept a challenge, connecting zodiac culture with the speed, force, and competitive spirit of equestrian sport.

Bring It On Series 01

The poster transforms the Chinese zodiac horse and the characters “放马过来 2026” into a visual language of speed and competition. The geometric horse evokes racing and equestrian motion, while the stretched, sharp typography conveys force and tension. “放马过来,” meaning “bring it on,” echoes the courage and challenge of sport, turning Chinese type into a form of movement.

FC Sans Pauli – Typography for FC St. Pauli

FC Sans Pauli features a distinctive back-slant that reflects the club’s left-wing attitude, inspired by the graffiti and tape art of Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. With seven styles and support for 200+ languages, it covers every communication need while ensuring consistency across platforms. By replacing multiple fonts, it saves resources, reduces environmental impact and strengthens the club’s identity worldwide.

ARQUIBANCADA

For ARQUIBANCADA magazine’s visual identity and graphic design, a typographic system was developed, highlighting the magazine’s dialogic nature and exploring the unpredictable movement of a crowd.

The objective of this graphic design was to convey the physical experience of visiting a stadium. The cover, with its arrangement of texts cut out like a detached paper, alludes to a ticket, just like the issues were numbered like the seats in the immensity of a stadium.

Sport in Art magazine

Original Czech magazine Sport in Art designed by Milan Nedvěd from issue 1 to 9 (2024–2025). It explores the intersection of sport and contemporary art and design. Each issue dedicated to a specific sports topics. It uses Shreck Mono by Pizza Typefaces, which is wildly stretched. It jumps, it bends, it schrunches. Just like our bodies when sport. Secondary typeface is disciplined and elegant Suisse Works by Swiss Typefaces.

Call for Entries: Slanted Magazine #49—SPORTS

We are excited to announce a new open call for submissions for an upcoming edition of Slanted Magazine dedicated to SPORTS—with a strong focus on TYPOGRAPHY.

Sport has produced some of the most distinctive visual languages—but also an incredible amount of generic and interchangeable branding. We want to look beyond that! We are searching for outstanding typography in sports: typefaces, custom lettering, numbers, jerseys, posters, publications, signage, stadium graphics, identities, events, digital applications, and more.

We are particularly interested in work beyond the obvious and commercial: local clubs, niche sports, fan cultures, subcultures, independent labels, vernacular typography, experimental projects, and hidden gems.

What happens when typography doesn’t just brand sport, but becomes part of its culture, identity, movement, and attitude? Show us TYPE in SPORTS.

All creatives are invited to submit their work along with a statement or quote via the online form. Text submissions in the form of essays and articles on cultural and creative topics related to SPORTS + DESIGN can be submitted via email.

All submissions will be carefully reviewed and curated. Selected contributors will be contacted and receive a discount code to order the magazine upon its release.

📅 Submission Deadline: Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
📅 Publication: End of April 2027

Very much looking forward to your submissions!

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Canyon Challenge Roth The Documentary Key Visual

Dynamic key visual, digital assets, thumbnails, as well as a poster and ticket for the premiere of Canyons’ documentary on the ‘Challenge Roth’ triathlon. The documentary shows what it takes to organise this classic event and highlights why it is so significant for the participating triathletes. The 25-minute documentary offers a glimpse behind the scenes, reveals the magic of the organisation and introduces the people who make the event possible. It also explores the relationships between spect

Stylenoir Script

Stylenoir Script is a new display typeface from The Northern Block type foundry.

Taking inspiration from hand-painted signage, brush lettering, and urban graffiti culture, its design reflects the ongoing evolution of lettering by combining traditional craftsmanship with the vibrant energy of street graffiti.

The type family includes two styles: Smooth and Rough. Smooth offers a refined, polished look with clean lines while maintaining expressive movement and handwritten rhythm. Rough emphasises the raw quality of brush lettering through textured edges, subtle imperfections, and organic irregularities, recreating the appearance of lettering made with a dry brush or marker.

Spacing, letter connections, and visual rhythm were carefully considered to ensure a strong visual impact. Contextual and stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, and alternate connecting forms allow the script to capture the organic unpredictability of real brush lettering while maintaining consistency across modern print and digital environments.

Learn more about The Northern Block here.

Foundry: The Northern Block
Type Designer: Tasos Varipatis

Creative Lead: Donna Wearmouth
Styles: 2

Pricing:
Single weights from £79.95
Full family from £109.95

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Abschlussmagazin

The graduation magazine from HfG Offenbach brings together the diploma projects of 93 graduates from the years 2023 and 2024. Across 368 pages, the publication presents 183 diploma projects from the fields of art and design, spanning five theoretical and 19 practical subject areas. Texts in both German and English offer access to the diverse perspectives, approaches, and ideas developed by the graduates.

The magazine opens with a visual table of contents that functions not only as an orientation tool but also as a creative introduction to the publication and its wide range of projects. Following the foreword, the practical diploma projects are presented alongside insights into the accompanying theoretical theses, creating a dialogue between making, thinking, research, and experimentation. A specially developed guidance system runs throughout the publication, connecting the different areas of content and helping readers navigate the magazine. Instead of relying on traditional page numbers, the system creates a visual thread that links the projects and provides a sense of continuity across the 368 pages.

The cover further emphasizes the individual character of the publication. It consists of a sheet of stickers that readers can use to customize the cover themselves. By choosing, arranging, and combining the stickers, each reader can create their own version of the magazine. As a result, every copy becomes a unique object and reflects the experimental and participatory spirit of the graduation projects presented inside.

The publication is also shortlisted for the Förderpreis für junge Buchgestalter, awarded by Stiftung Buchkunst, recognizing its distinctive approach to editorial design, visual communication, and the relationship between content and form.

Abschlussmagazin—Final Theses and Projects of the HfG Offenbach of 2023 and 2024

Publisher: HfG Offenbach (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Franzen)
Editor: HfG Offenbach (Katja Kupfer & Jens Balkenborg)
Concept and Design: Helene Hohmann
Release: July 2025
Format: 19 × 28 cm
Volume: 368 p.
Language: German, English
Fonts in use: DO Trax, Mule & MUle Mono (Samira Schneuwly)
ISBN: 978-3-945365-56-4
Price: €15.–

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Images: © Helene Hohmann

Constrictor

Constrictor, a new type family released by Frere-Jones Type in June 2026, began as a title sketch for a documentary about Margaret Lovatt, who was part of a NASA funded project which set out to communicate with dolphins and ended up dosing them with LSD. Shallcrass layered this rich input with typographic history, experiences and memories from the physical world to create a variable font family which radiates an energetic presence and has movement at its core. According to Shallcrass, “Danger, tension and anxiety are key aspects of why the face works to me.”

Constrictor’s variable width axis impacts our perception of noise when read: expand the letters and you can feel the rhythm ease; compress them and the letterforms begin to grip each other like a boa constrictor finding its hold. Movement is also a fundamental component of the static Constrictor styles: from the loose and shimmering X-Wide to the almost unbearably tight X-Condensed, Constrictor has the ability to shift cadence, accelerating or keeping tempo to move with the rhythms of the world.

Constrictor is available from Frere-Jones Type. The family comes in one variable and six static fonts, contains support for over 200 languages, and starts at US$60 for a single style.

Fred Shallcrass, grew up in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He is a Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type in New York, teaches typeface design at Parsons and is an instructor in the Type@cooper program.

Constrictor

Foundry: Frere-Jones Type
Design: Fred Shallcrass
Styles: 6
Release date: 23.6.2026

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adidas Podium – Wayfinding & Spatial Typography

Melville Brand Design translated the adidas DNA into a custom typographic signage system for the “Podium” campus building. Typography serves as an architectural anchor, fusing functional wayfinding with curated art (feat. Anna Rupprecht, Fillin Guas, Gabe) and digital installations like the Sneaker Mapping Wall. An interplay of type, space, and sports culture that conveys identity while guiding people through the space.

Beyond the Photograph

What happens when the visual identity for a photography festival is built without photographs?

For the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, dipshop developed a visual identity based on three phenomena that are usually present in photographs but rarely become the subject themselves: depth of field, lens flares and burned film. Rather than treating them as technical side effects, we turned them into the building blocks of the festival’s graphic language. The resulting identity shifts attention away from photographic representation and towards the medium’s overlooked elements—those that shape how we see images, yet often remain invisible. This approach emerged from the curatorial framework’s interest in voices and perspectives that exist outside dominant narratives. By elevating photography’s peripheral phenomena, the identity proposes another way of looking at the medium itself.

The 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, titled “Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other,” celebrates the creative potential of connection, infinity, and love while also calling for responsibility toward the Other.The festival aims to highlight a broad spectrum of photographic voices—from established to emerging artists, from widely recognized to overlooked perspectives that challenge dominant narratives, bring forgotten stories back into focus, and build bridges across social and cultural divides.

The 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026

When?
June 5th–September 22th, 2026

Finissage 
September 20th

Visual Identity: dipshop
Graphic Design & Realisation of Print Media: Leon Lechner
Publication Design: Katharina Hetzeneder
Architecture and Graphic Design Deichtorhallen: Jutta Wasser
Graphic Design & Production Triennale der Photographie Hamburg: Evelyn Nossol

Ferro

Ferro is a type family that turns information loss into a design principle, bridging Renaissance metal type and the early computer age. It began as a display face for CodeX, an editorial project on digital cultures whose second issue, designed by the collective Bonjour Monde, explored media archaeology and the French Minitel, asking how medium-specific works can survive once the technologies that produced them disappear.wide

Its source is the Annales Suevici, printed in 1595, whose roman, italic, and blackletter Ferro reinterprets rather than restores. A custom set of scripts, derived from Arman Mohtadji’s vector distortion tool Magnet Mike, repeatedly forces the letterforms through grids of varying resolutions, producing unstable shapes that oscillate between preservation and collapse.

Instead of conventional weights, the family unfolds in four progressive stages of digital decay across Regular, Italic, Black, and monospaced companions. Ferro Black recasts the original Fraktur as a structural, text-friendly layer rather than ornament. Named after ferrofluids, liquids that erupt into spikes under magnetic fields, Ferro shifts from calm, historically grounded structures toward fractured, near-abstract forms. Erosion is treated not as damage but as a productive force: history as unstable material, continuously rewritten through transmission, interpretation, and technical constraint.

Learn More about Plain Form here.

Ferro

Foundry: Plain Form
Design: Lucas Descroix, Bonjour Monde

Team: Benjamin Dumond, Arman Mohtadji
Styles: 24
Release date: 2026
Glyph count: ca. 540 glyphs
Coverage: Latin Extended

Mein Morgenstern. Ein Buch zum 111. Todestag von Christian Morgenstern

With the traveling exhibition “Mein Morgenstern. Ein Buch zum 111. Todestag von Christian Morgenstern,” the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz presents an extraordinary collaborative book arts project that brings together traditional craftsmanship and literary heritage. The exhibition will be on view in the reading room of the museum library from 9 July to 28 August 2026.

The exhibition pays tribute to the literary artistry of Christian Morgenstern, whose playful and humorous poetry continues to delight readers today. The book project of the same name was initiated by the Association for the Black Art, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the traditional crafts of type founding, hand typesetting, and letterpress printing. In collaboration with Büchergilde Gutenberg, the Masters of Fine Bookbinding Association, and the Homburg Paper Mill, the partners created a work that showcases the art of bookmaking in all its richness.

Numerous printers, book artists, and bookbinders from across Germany contributed to the project, producing a remarkable volume through meticulous hand craftsmanship. The result is a book that has been hand-set, letterpress-printed, and hand-bound, creating an exceptional tribute to Morgenstern’s literary legacy, particularly his celebrated Gallows Songs.

The Association for the Black Art is committed to preserving and passing on the traditional techniques of the historic printing trades. These include the crafts of type founding, typesetting, and letterpress printing, all of which are closely connected to the city of Mainz and its legacy as the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg’s invention.

The exhibition also marks the opening of a new venue within the Gutenberg-Museum Mainz . In the future, the museum library will host small-scale exhibitions, lectures, and readings, establishing it as a vibrant cultural meeting place in Mainz.

Exhibition

When?
July 8th, 6 p.m.
August 28th, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Where?
Gutenberg-Museum Mainz
Reichklarastr. 1, D

55116 Mainz

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Hot Printing 2026

It’s set to be another colourful and diverse weekend: For the third time, the Hot Printing Festival in Offenbach will bring together more than 90 artists who explore the theme of print in a wide variety of ways. A young and dynamic scene will showcase their printed works—from screen-printed posters and traditional letterpress to experimental lithography, material printing, comics, and zines in vibrant colors produced on a Risograph printer.

Printing plays a major role in Offenbach’s history: Lithography was first used commercially in Offenbach to print sheet music at the end of the 18th century, laying the foundation for the printing of posters and illustrations, which are now ubiquitous. The Klingspor Museum collects modern and contemporary printed works, and small print workshops and initiatives have been establishing themselves in the city over the past few years. Printing is simply part of Offenbach’s identity, and exhibitors from the surrounding area are now looking forward to welcoming a diverse range of visitors, along with print enthusiasts from Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, and the Netherlands.

As well as browsing and shopping, visitors can also try their hand at printing: The hands-on program includes postcard printing on the Boston platen press in the print workshop, Lego printing and kitchen lithography, a sock-printing station using screen printing, cyanotype, and water lithography, as well as a host of talks, demonstrations, and readings. The workshops are aimed at print enthusiasts of all ages—whether you are an experienced printer or a curious beginner, there is something for everyone!

Hot Printing 2026

When?
Saturday, August 22

11 a.m.–7 p.m.

From 7:30 p.m.–Evening program:
Of Types and Typefaces. Letterpress Printing in Japan and South Korea. Lecture by Ina Hengstler
Heaven’s Human Jukebox – We Hear What We See. An infotainment event by and with O.W. Himmel. Print presentation with music

Sunday, August 23
11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Festival with program, music by DJ SK LIBRA

Where?
Klingspor Museum, Herrnstr. 80, 63065 Offenbach
Haus der Stadtgeschichte / Druckwerkstatt im Bernardbau, Herrnstr. 61, 63065 Offenbach

Visitors can look forward to market stalls, workshops, readings, talks, exhibitions, music, a bar, great food, and inspiring discussions. The full festival program can be found at klingspormuseum.de—admission is free!

Sastre, a hybrid typeface inspired by nature and craftsmanship

The latest addition to NM type font library brings a refreshing contribution to the typographic landscape. Originally started as a student project at Reading University in 2014, Sastre is now making its first public debut. Created by Galician designer María Ramos, the text typeface is currently available in the upright version. Sastre includes five weights and a variable font. Future releases will include italic styles and display cuts.

The mix of influences in the design enhances a unique personality. Unexpected connections emerge from María’s family memories and the tailor workshop their parents have run for over 40 years. She is not the first to link clothing and bespoke garments with type design. Beatrice Warde described fonts like “the clothes that words wear”, while Adrian Frutiger noted, “the work of a type designer is just like that of a dressmaker: clothing the naked, constant human form”.
Ramos took her exploration further by not only recognising Sastre’s broken structure in the drawings made by her father on fabric, but also finding inspiration from natural patterns, like the surface texture of a tree leaf and the intricate work of skilled weavers: spider webs.

The set features special characters, a delight for designers and creatives. There is a collection of stitches that perform as geometric shapes to create patterns and borders. The small caps, built as a monospaced set, add another voice to the type family.

The release comes with a special site where one can explore the project storyline, test the typeface while reading about M. Ramos Tailor Shop, or learn about the design features. Sastre is exclusively available from NM type, which offers a 20% discount on licences acquired before the end of June.

Learn more about NM type here.

Sastre

Foundry: NM type
Designer: María Ramos
Year of release: 2026

Script: Latin
Styles: Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold

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Forward Festival Berlin 2026

Following its successful premiere in Frankfurt as part of World Design Capital 2026, Forward Festival continues its 2026 season in Berlin. On August 27–28, 2026, the festival returns to Haus der Kulturen der Welt, bringing together creatives for two days of inspiring talks, workshops, networking opportunities, and immersive experiences.

Across three stages, more than 50 international speakers from design, typography, illustration, motion, branding, and beyond will explore bold ideas, emerging trends, and the future of creativity.

This year’s Berlin edition features an international lineup of leading creative voices. Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most influential designers of our time, connecting design with life’s bigger questions. Brooklyn-based designers Anton & Irene are known for their bold, award-winning work for clients including Spotify, IKEA, and The Met. Montreal-based artist and designer Gab Bois creates distinctive surreal work blending playful imagination with absurd visuals. Illustrator Mr. Bingo is known for his witty Hate Mail project and his transition from client work to independent art. Global creative studio FutureDeluxecombines design and technology to create innovative visual worlds, while Berlin-based type design team Dinamo redefines contemporary typography through typefaces, tools, research, and consultancy.

Find out more about the full program here

Since its founding in 2015, Forward Festival has grown into one of the leading platforms for the international creative community. Across 33 festivals in four countries, it has welcomed more than 50,000 visitors from 80 nations, connecting designers, artists, marketers, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers through carefully curated talks, workshops, side events, and immersive experiences.

More than a conference, Forward Festival is a place where ideas meet action, empowering attendees with inspiration, practical knowledge, and new connections to turn creative ideas into reality.

When?
August 27–28, 2026

Where?
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Slanted will also be part of Forward Festival Berlin with our own booth, and we’re looking forward to meeting you there! Come by, say hello, and explore our latest publications, design discoveries, and creative inspirations—we can’t wait to see you and share our passion for design with you.

Tickets and further information are available via the official website.