Brand Strategy Cards

Use this set of 65 Brand Strategy Cards to define your brand strategy: authentic points and proof points, positioning, messaging, brand personality, etc. Set a solid foundation for your brand system. Works perfectly with Brand Canvas.

Stationery Set Glow

You need a beautiful card for a birthday, baptism, or just to send lovely greetings? Then we have exactly the right product for you. Our set Glow consists of five folded cards with matching envelopes. Printed with a neon orange gradient, you can use the cards directly or enhance them with your own design. The cards are delivered open—so you can decide for yourself if you want the gradient inside or outside.

Birthday calendar

Never forget a birthday or anniversary again sounds tempting, doesn’t it?
Our birthday calendar will help you with that. And best of all, you can use it every year.
13 graphic risography art prints in 15 spot colors for great joy all year long.

DOCKS Collective – Ein Jahr entlang der Ufer

More than 180 people lost their lives in the flood of July 14–15, 2021. For numerous people, that night changed everything. In the aftermath of the flood, the general public became aware, perhaps for the first time, that climate change has arrived in Germany.

The members of the DOCKS Collective set out on a journey to the Ahr valley on the day after the disaster. Their aim was to photograph the local situation and talk to those affected by the flood. Owing to their collective structure, the five photographers were able to work in several places at the same time.

Over a period of two weeks, the five members took photos non-stop in the Ahr valley and in the regions hit by the waters. They documented their experience and people’s stories, the unbelievable destruction and the great solidarity of the helpers.

It rapidly became clear that the reconstruction of the destroyed areas would take a long time. When the media interest began to decline, the collective decided to continue visiting the region, the numerous helpers, firefighters, and victims. For a year, the members witnessed loss and immense grief, but also inspiring solidarity, an impressive willingness to help, and perseverance.

100 Beste Plakate 22

Every year, the 100 Beste Plakate e. V. association awards prizes to the creators of the most innovative and groundbreaking poster designs from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The yearbook, which is developed by different graphic designers and design studios each year, presents all the winners and their designs in detail. It has become the key indicator of trends for creatives and advertisers alike.

Studio lindhorst-emme+hinrichs has designed the current yearbook as an ever-changing, unique volume. Ten different colored papers are used in different combinations: as a result, the cover as well as the front and back endpapers never have the same color, and each copy is unique.

The central focus of the book is on the poster designs for the art and culture center Neubad in Lucerne, some of which have reached an iconic status. Over the years, the Swiss province has become a hotbed of avantgarde design. More than 80 graphic designers have created around 550 posters for the Neubad to date; 23 of them have received awards in recent years, being ranked among the 100 best posters.

Grafikmagazin 04.23 – Social Design

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months.
The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like Social Design. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.
The extensive Showroom section lets readers know other creatives and the stories behind design studios worldwide. The Design and Research category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the Production and Publishing section, everything revolves around print. You will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports, and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.
Each cover is printed on a different paper, and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme more broadly or shares a fresh perspective on a unique design technique. The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents, and freelancers are bound and driven by the firm belief that print is not dead. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Another Reading—Contemporary Book Design from China

The exhibition Another Reading—Contemporary Book Design from China creates a unique platform for pioneers of contemporary book design from China in Berlin. Nearly 150 outstanding books with the finest Chinese printing and binding techniques can be explored up close. Topics range from traditional crafts and Chinese character design to modern Chinese literature and contemporary art.

More than 20 leading Chinese graphic designers in the field of contemporary book design are participating in the exhibition, especially many female designers. Although they come from different regions of China and different generations, they are all passionate about book design. However, what they earn from book design does not match their passion and work. Looking at these wonderful designs, we all know that it is the charm of books themselves that has driven these lively and influential designers in contemporary China.

AGI New Members 2007–2017

The nearly 700-page book AGI NEW MEMBERS 2007–2017, published and designed by Jianping He (hesign Berlin), contains the latest design work from more than 200 new members of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) over the past decade. Each designer is presented on three pages with CV, selected works, and a short interview on current design-related issues by dealing with the developments and challenges in graphic design and the role and future of print media. For the third time, Jianping He designed a new membership book for the association AGI, to promote and support young design nations. True to the motto „Enjoy Design!,“ the book is presented on shredded pages made of recycling paper to defy conventional reading and experience something new while browsing through the pages. This book is a reflection of one of the main purposes of AGI, i.e. to meet and to learn about the person behind the work. It illustrates how design relates to our daily lives and what excellence in design can contribute to the world, to make it a better one.

Awarded with the YELLOW PENCIL at D&AD AWARDS London and BRONZE at ADC New York.

Let’s Become Fungal!—Mycelium Teachings and the Arts

There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors.
Let’s Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency­—all in line with the behavior of the mycelium.
Every chapter is phrased as a question. They do not lead to answers, but to twelve teachings addressing for instance collaboration, decoloniality, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death, and being non-binary. Simultaneously it ventures deeper into the world of fungi. The teachings from the fungus may inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policy-makers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change-makers, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community-leaders, farmers, and many others, to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.
Inspired by conversations with: Francisca Álvarez Sánchez, Carolina Caycedo, Binna Choi, Annalee Davis, Maya Errázuriz, Juan Ferrer, Lilian Fraiji, Giuliana Furci, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Patricia Kaishian, Anne Kervers, Mirla Klijn and Olaf Boswijk, Lola Malavasi and Daniela Morales Lisac, Maria Paola Malavasi Lachner, Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra, Camila Marambio, Mariana Martínez Balvanera, Claudia Martínez Garay, Valeria Mata, Lina Meija and Luciana Fleischman, Vera Meyer, Tomaz Morgado Françozo and Marília, Marjon Neumann, Maria Alice Neves, Sina Ribak, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Raquel Rosenberg, Juli Simon, Ela Spalding, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo and Lucia Monge, Fer Walüng, Tatyana Zambrano.
Valiz supported by Mondriaan Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, De Gijselaar-Hintzenfonds, Stichting Doen

Cult Dice Game—Set of 3

Mom, throw the dice, we play the cult dice game!

Riso-printed game blocks in a set of 3, fifty sheets each, for a hefty 900 rounds of play.
Eco-friendliness has never been so much fun!

Radical Fashion Exercises—A Workbook of Modes and Methods

Over one hundred tried, tested, and speculative exercises that expand the way we look at fashion, how we are part of its system, and how we can practice fashion otherwise. Radical Fashion Exercises contains a copious collection of bottom-up activities, prompts, and workshops designed by contributors (from all around the globe), who explore fashion in an expanded field.

Designers, curators, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, DIY home sewers, students, and other creatives responded to the book’s open call with contributions that challenge how to practice fashion and reflect on its systems, politics, and economics. The exercises collected in this book embrace interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and aesthetics and widen fashion’s horizons as a medium for expression, embodiment, and sociality. Radical Fashion Exercises assembles methods for learning and practicing fashion in meaningful, radical, and responsible ways. The book is an inspiring tool for design students, designers, writers, and practitioners of diverse disciplines to challenge fashion as a commodity and polluting structure in these times of uncertainty and upheaval.

Contributors: Aïcha Abbadi, Federico Antonini, Claudia Arana, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Stéphanie Baechler, Linnea Bågander, Laura Banfield, Anouk Beckers, Mary-Lou Berkulin, heeten bhagat, Dinu Bodiciu, Silvia Bombardini, Chet Julius Bugter, Otto von Busch, Francesca Capone, Rachael Cassar, Dal Chodha, Lidya Chrisfens, Remie Cibis, Marieke Coppens, Lenn Cox, Eleonora De Chiara, Ashish Dhaka, Paola Di Trocchio, Andrea Eckersley, Aimilia Efthimiou, Laura & Deanna Fanning, Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Kate Fletcher, Laura Gardner, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Julie Gork, Kasia Zofia Gorniak, Nakako Hayashi, Marjanne van Helvert, Ruby Hoette, Lou Hubbard, Marie Hugsted, Elisa van Joolen, Sanne Karssenberg, Noorin Khamisani, Sonika Soni Khar, Jessie Kiely, Seohee Kim, Maria Kley, Anika Kozlowski, Valerie Lange, Ulrik Martin Larsen, Maaike Lauwaert, Alice Lewis, Matthew Linde, Saul Marcadent, Marco Marino, Georgia McCorkill, Kate Meakin, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Gabriele Monti, Claire Myers, Udochi Nwogu, Sanem Odabaşı, Naoko Ogawa, Oluwasola Kehinde Olowo-Ake, PAGEANT: Amanda Cumming & Kate Reynolds, Marco Pecorari, Anabel Poh, PUGMENT, Eloise Rapp, Liam Revell, Harriette Richards, Nicole K. Rivas, Todd Robinson, Mikhail Rojkov, Martine Rose, Shanzhai Lyric, Soft Baroque’s Nicholas Gardner & Saša Štucin, Sihle Sogaula, Shanna Soh, Vidmina Stasiulytė, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Sang Thai, Anne Karine Thorbjørnsen, Clemens Thornquist, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Jeppe Ugelvig, Alessandra Vaccari, Aurélie Van de Peer, Adele Varcoe, Femke de Vries, Ferdinand Waas, Beata Wilczek, Lillian Wilkie, Annie Wu, Patricia Wu Wu.

Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0

Since Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type sold out in a very short time and a lot of people continued asking if Slanted Publishers had issues left, they decided to reprint the publication—roughly the same, but different. Meaning all pages all black and white this time further some additional work.

Experimental Type deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. The issue presents projects incorporating the accident into the design process, works based on mistakes and inaccuracy, fonts that derive from a concept or a system—in the end work that experiment or goes unconventional ways in design. The publication showcases cutting edge approaches as well as new experimental procedures, from processing to ai-generated typefaces or variable fonts.

The different works offer glimpses into spaces that were explored by pushing conventions, limitations, and thoughts to the next level. It is clear though, that the game is never over. The discovery of new areas, technologies, and thoughts are a constant source of inspiration, research, and experimentation for those that follow.

Neon Weekly Planner Risography

Practical weekly planner, environmentally friendly printed in neon orange, in DIN A4 format with 53 pages—for a structured year.
The high-quality Munken natural paper is suitable for all types of pens and impresses with a wooly-soft surface. The clean design is rounded off by the brightly colored glue edge — so Monday is fun again! Environmentally friendly risography print on natural white Munken paper with velvety surface. Bound with colored glue.

Classic Weekly Planner Risography

Practical weekly planner, environmentally friendly printed in a strong blue. In DIN A4 format with 53 pages—for a structured year.

The high-quality Munken natural paper is suitable for all types of pens and impresses with a wooly-soft surface. The clean design is rounded off by the brightly colored glue edge—so Monday is fun again! Environmentally friendly risography print on natural white Munken paper with velvety surface

Slanted Ultimate Package / All available Slanted Magazines

The Slanted Ultimate Package contains all available Slanted issues for only € 169.– + shipping. Save up to €100.– and get them all at once. Exclusively available at Slanted Shop!

Slanted Magazine #42–Books
Slanted Magazine #41—Amsterdam
Slanted Magazine #40—Experimental Type 2.0
Slanted Magazine #36—COEXIST
Special Special Issue Rhineland-Palatinate
Slanted #35—L.A.
Special Special Issue Rwanda
Slanted #32—Dubai
Slanted #30—Athens
Slanted #29—Helsinki
Slanted #28—Warsaw
Slanted #27—Portugal
Slanted #26—New York
Slanted #24—Istanbul
Slanted #22—Art Type
Special Special Issue Babylon

Sensing Earth—Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe

Sensing Earth states that our environmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems. Our globe is facing an escalation of ecological problems, with no quick solutions in sight. We seem to be caught in a spiral of health issues, burnout, sensory overload, depression, and somatic deprivation. Artists faced with these crises are looking for ways to articulate the ongoing emergencies and explore possible ways out. However, the arts and culture are caught in a double bind. Artists and cultural initiatives need circulation to let ideas intersect and create meaningful connections. However, this globalized system also contributes to the planet’s ecological decline: by countless journeys from one biennale, international residency, touring exhibition and networking event to the next. After the Covid-19 pandemic, “business as usual” seems to prevail. Sensing Earth includes essays, interviews, poetry, manifestos, choreographic prompts, speculative fiction, and case studies operating at the intersection of art and activism, culture and nature. All texts explore what sensorial foundations are necessary to address systemic failures, and what routes to take for keeping us moving on this planet, physically, emotionally and intellectually.
Contributors: Grégory Castéra, Cosmological Gardens, Philipp Dietachmair, Futurefarmers, Pascal Gielen, Marina Guzzo, INLAND, Meander Society, Georgia Nicolau, Luciane Ramos Silva, Noel B. Salazar, Joy Mariama Smith, Naine Terena de Jesus, Dea Vidović, André Wilkens, Ana Žuvela
Philipp Dietachmair is Head of Programmes at European Cultural Foundation; Pascal Gielen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Antwerp (BE); Georgia Nicolau is researcher and co-founder/director of non-profit civil-society organization Instituto Procomum in Santos (BR).
April 2023, Valiz in collaboration with European Cultural Foundation

Grafikmagazin 03.23—Health & Fitness

As the name indicates, Grafikmagazin is a print magazine focusing on all things graphic design. Primarily it’s aimed at professional creatives and design students from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and beyond. Grafikmagazin presents outstanding work from graphic design, typography, illustration, photography, design theory, research, paper, and printing every two months.
The editorial team of Grafikmagazin created a variety of sections and categories but selected focus themes for each issue, like Health & Fitness. The topics portray how imaginative, eclectic, and playful graphic design can be while featuring successful branding concepts and niche ideas.

The extensive Showroom section lets readers know other creatives and the stories behind design studios worldwide. The Design & Research category presents interdisciplinary projects that show how science and research can benefit from creative solutions and play an active role in graphic design. In the Production & Publishing section, everything revolves around print. You will find exquisite books, sophisticated annual reports, and high-quality embossed greeting cards. Also, the cover artists of each issue are interviewed or get to highlight their ideas.

Each cover is printed on a different paper, and the design interprets the particular Grafik+ theme more broadly or shares a fresh perspective on a unique design technique. The Grafikmagazin team, its correspondents, and freelancers are bound and driven by the firm belief that print is not dead. With the will to prove just how alive it is, and the motivation to start something fresh yet deeply traditional, they strive for nothing less than to create another print magazine that makes history.

Notebook HOLLYWOOD VENICE ETC.

You are definitely making a statement and not raising questions. This high glossy, neon-colored notebook in a handy format gives you the space you need to write down your ideas and thoughts on 176 pages of premium paper. The pages have a fine dot grid and a light purple bookmark to help you find your way.

nomad 14—care

This issue explores the concept of care from a relationship perspective, discussing the need for redefining relationship contexts or even reinventing some entirely. It also raises questions about our relationship with nature, examining whether we are superior or subordinate to it and how we can redefine our relationship with it. The issue also covers discussions on waste, architecture and design, and considers how they can be used to change our relationship with nature and the world.

nomad features people who explore the relationship between humans and nature in their work, including artist Zheng Bo, designer duo Formafantasma, Studio Ossidiana, General and Artistic Director at Nieuwe Insituut Aric Chen, furniture manufacturers ecoBirdy, Studio Plastique, designer and architect Michele de Lucchi, artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and many more.

The Neubad Plakat

In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary design phenomenon in the process. We are talking about the posters for the Neubad Cultural Center, which have long since found their way out of the valley and all over the world.

The posters, in minimalist black and white, not only set contemporary design trends, but playfully transcend the boundaries of our perceptual habits. Progressive illustration and experimental typography create subcultural codes on a highly cultural level that remain unpretentious despite their artistic daring.

The Neubad Plakat is an aesthetic phenomenon and an expression of a social change that has always been expressed in fashion, music, design—in other words, in the zeitgeist. The book as a collection of curated pieces that in itself formulated a new expression of this emerged aesthetic.

A Contemporary Design Phenomenon

Future Book(s)—Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing

What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? A large number of international interested individuals was asked to respond to this question. Journalists, artists, architects, curators, translators, designers, philosophers, sociologists, teachers, book scholars, publishers, printing houses, distributors, booksellers, historians and art-historians, critics, policymakers, editors, students, and many others have enthusiastically shared their views, looking ahead five, twenty, or seventy-two years (to the year 2100).

At times utopian, wildly fantasizing, at other times with realistic scenarios, in both text and images, exciting for anyone who loves books and / or is involved in books and cultural content. Each section of this publication was designed by various young designers, to celebrate its scope and diversity.

Themes: Attention, Collaboration, Colour, Conflict, Craft, Creativity, Diversity, Ecology, Generations, History, Humor, Innovation, Interpretation, Oxygen, Politics, Society, Stewardship, Sustainability, Soft Power, Technique, Tempo, Translation, Zest.