The ADC Digital Conference is the ADC’s laboratory for what’s next in the creative industries — a space where emerging technologies, creativity…
Dysarium 2026
Impostors
Dysarium, Ukraine’s largest festival for the creative industries, will take place in Lviv on 24 and 25 October 2026, bringing together designers,…
SEJONG NEØ-X #1
2025 Graphic Design 1: AI Lab
“SEJONG NEØ-X #1” is the outcome of Graphic Design 1: AI LAB, taught by Professor Daeki Shim in the Design Innovation major…
Last Thursday, we returned to the Frankfurter Buchmesse, a place where everything revolves around books and the people who love them. Every…
Sonata
When musical notation meets typographic letterforms
Sonata is a display typeface designed by Rosa de Vera that is inspired by musical notation. The typeface explores the parallels of…
Recap: ADC Design Conference 2026
Change the World with Design
On October 5, the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart became a meeting point for designers, creatives, and people interested in design. For…
Foundry Kingdom
The Foundry Types
Foundry Kingdom is not champagne—it is a pint of bitter in the local pub. It is not the King’s horse at Ascot,…
There is something special about discovering a typeface you have never seen before. A familiar word can suddenly take on a completely…
Unicode Technology Workshop 2026
Unicode in the World
How do you search for a flamingo emoji in your language? How does software know how to sort names, display bidirectional text,…
Meet HfG Karlsruhe’s New Rector
Interview with Dr. Andreas Vogel
In April 2026, Dr. Andreas Vogel took office as rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG Karlsruhe). Trained in art…
The popular classic Photodarium is now appearing for the 15th time and will delight us again in 2027 with an instant photo…
no° | Ice Cream Packaging
Turns Flavor Ratios into a Visual Identity
Designed as a composition, no° transforms layered ice cream into a visual identity where the product itself becomes the main design language.…
Are we cooked?!
How AI is reshaping the design industry – 30 voices from designers and agencies to AI artists
Are we cooked?! It's the question every designer is quietly asking right now. So we asked it to 30 leading design voices.…
FONS HICKMANN
Posters—Now and Then
The Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst (Brandenburg Museum of Modern Art) presents a substantial solo exhibition of posters by Fons Hickmann at…
BIG LETTERS, BRIGHT COLORS
Exhibion on Lettering in Art
Letters, words, sentences: in contemporary painting, they carry not only literal meaning but can become an independent pictorial motif in their own…
The DFB-Pokal Reimagined
Interview
The DFB-Pokal thrives on contrast: professional clubs facing semi-professional sides, favourites meeting underdogs, and decades of tradition colliding with stories that can…
FOLIO
Cucumber & Hemp Drink
FOLIO is a non-alcoholic botanical drink made from cold-pressed cucumber and hemp extract. Positioned between wellness and craft collectibility, it combines functional…
Lingo
A Serif That Dresses Up Slang
Imagine a library. Sealed-in quiet, walls thick as dictionaries. But that's not why you're here — you're at the computer, navigating to…
What’s next in Seoul Design?
Essay by Chanwoolee
Coming back to Seoul marked the end of my first semester teaching in Korea. Designing designers was not an easy task. It’s…
Rediscovering Type: Why Fontbase Feels Different
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools explores the instruments shaping contemporary creative practice. Through interviews, articles, and numerous examples from graphic and type design,…
Following the success of the first three editions, Slanted Experimental Type 4.0 continues the series’ exploration of innovative approaches in typography and…
Paper Print Festival 2026
Open Call for Creatives
Calling all printmakers, illustrators, book artists, photographers, designers, collectives, independent publishers and print enthusiasts: be part of PAPER PRINT FESTIVAL 2026 in…
Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type
11 Years of Alphabettes—Celebrate with 20% Off
Ten years of feminist perspectives on type design, research, and community-building come together in Alphabettes Soup, published by Bikini Books. The book…
The Forward Festival Berlin 2026 once again turned Haus der Kulturen der Welt into a temporary creative campus. On August 27th and…
Upcoming Events
15.11.2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Young V&A, London
20.10.2026 –
21.10.2026
DesignThinkers 2026 in Toronto, Canada
Toronto
20.10.2026 –
23.10.2026
Unicode Technology Workshop 2026
Nancy
24.10.2026 –
25.10.2026
Dysarium 2026
!FESTrepublic. Lviv
30.10.2026 –
01.11.2026
Paper Print Festival 2026
IBKK Design und Kunstzentrum, Bochum