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Limited Special Edition Type Fashion: Bag + Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion

In collaboration with the Berlin-based brand Ucon Acrobatics, we’re excited to present a limited special edition on occasion of the release of Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion. It includes the magazine alongside an exclusive bag which draws inspiration from the bold design of the new issue, blending typography and fashion into a stylish and sustainable statement piece. At its core, it embraces bold design while reflecting Ucon Acrobatics’ commitment to slow fashion, with every material ethically and sustainably sourced.

The bag is available in three vibrant colors from the magazine’s palette—Red, Royal Blue, and Light Rose—and features a crisp white print, applied through high-quality screen printing. It’s the perfect accessory to elevate any outfit while making a statement: Join the SLW FSHN CLB!

Designed for versatility, the limited edition bag can be worn as a crossbody or hip bag, offering compact storage for your tech essentials and everyday items. With water-resistant features, a sleek silhouette, and streetwise flair, this bag combines practicality with a fashion-forward look.

Features:
— Wear it as a crossbody or hip bag
— Main compartment with water-repellent, two-way zipper
— Additional back compartment with water-repellent zipper
— Inside pocket for your phone
— Internal holder for pens
— Adjustable webbing straps
— Embossed Ucon Acrobatics label on the front

Specifications:
— Dimensions: 20 × 14 × 6 cm
— Capacity: 1 L
— Weight: 180 g
— Material: Polyurethane (PU) with polyester (PET), PVC & PFC-free

With its vivid colors, water-resistant construction, and soft, brushed polyester lining, the Jona Bag delivers style, comfort, and functionality. Whether for your weekend plans or everyday outings, it’s the perfect companion for the fashion-conscious and eco-friendly alike.

About Ucon Acrobatics

Ucon Acrobatics unites a passion for creative design with sustainable mindset. We stand for durable products that go beyond seasons. Instead of following fleeting trends, we focus on timeless silhouettes. We feel responsible, not only for what we do but also for what we don’t do. That is why we always stay true to our motto: “minimal design, minimal emission.” This approach is driven by the belief that less can actually be more, and that nothing should suffer for a quality product – not humans, not animals and not the environment. Find more information about the brand online here or in the interview with Martin Fussenegger and Jochen Smuda, the founders of Ucon Acrobatics, featured in Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion.

About Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion

Slanted Magazine #44—TYPE FASHION explores the intersection of typography and fashion. The issue explores the boundaries of conventional design, embracing cutting-edge typography as a dynamic canvas for fashion expression. It presents art pieces, conceptual works, unconventional positioning, bold messages, weird concepts, and off-road applications that challenge the status quo of fashion industries. Explore more photos and details about Slanted Magazine #44—Type Fashion here.

Altari

Enters the rural landscapes of Campania, Italy, where depopulation whispers of a fading past.

In Altari, Paolo Covino presents a photographic topology of bedrooms, each a sanctuary of tradition and heritage. As the elderly cling to their homes, customs, and superstitions, Covino captures the essence of a community in transition. These bedrooms, once revered as places of worship for a fading past, now stand as relics of a bygone era.

Each photograph, documents the intersection of social, cultural, and historical change, where the weight of history threatens to vanish into the ether.

Bury Me in the Back Forty

Bury Me in the Back Forty is the highly anticipated successor to the sold-out books Out West and Crown Ditch by Kyler Zeleny and the final chapter in his prairie trilogy.

For a decade now, Kyler Zeleny has been documenting his hometown, a rural community on the Canadian Prairies with deep Ukrainian roots, consisting of 915 people. Based on the idea that the story of any place evolves over time, Zeleny has been using his own photographs, collected objects, community archives, and hidden histories, to revise the community’s history book from the year 1980.

The result is a pluralistic history of the community that embraces both official and unofficial accounts of events in the community’s past—a community album that contains not only the roses but also the numerous thorns attached to each stem. It encapsulates the collective virtues and vices found at the heart of any complex place on the verge of disappearing. More importantly, it is simply a story being recorded, recollected, and reconfigured—a layered portrait of small town living that is both unique and universal.

The result of which is the stoicism of place, a lived existence, which roars at times and suffers so quietly at others.

Yearbook of Lettering #2 / Participant Fee (Germany)

After the amazing response to Yearbook of Lettering #1—with 134 artists from 35 countries, rave press reviews, and tons of social media buzz—we’re back for round two! Yearbook of Lettering #2 is set to drop in autumn 2025, showcasing the very best in lettering from around the globe, from classic calligraphy to bold street art and graffiti. Ready to be part of it? Get your submissions in and help us make this edition even bigger and better!

In Yearbook of Lettering #2, each artist is given at least one full page, where only their artwork is featured, allowing the visuals to take center stage. The clean, open design ensures that the lettering speaks for itself, giving space for the unique styles and techniques to shine.

What truly sets this edition apart is the extensive index, which holds all the essential details—artist backgrounds, style descriptions, materials used, and contact information. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or searching for the perfect artist, the comprehensive, alphabetized index makes it easy to explore the talent behind each piece.

Designed as both a source of inspiration for graphic designers and agencies, and a practical guide for clients seeking the perfect artist or style, Yearbook of Lettering #2 will appeal to anyone interested in the vibrant world of contemporary lettering. We can’t wait to bring this second edition to life with your incredible work!

lt is possible to book one single page or up to three spreads! The presented artworks may not have been published earlier than 2020. Artworks can be submitted via our website until December 8th, 2024.

Producing a book like this requires significant resources. We believe in its sustainability and the real value it offers, which is why we aim to make it accessible to as many people as possible. To maintain high quality, we ask participants to contribute a small production fee to help cover costs (while still maintaining a selection process). This fee is intentionally kept low to encourage broad participation, especially from young artists, and covers only a small portion of the overall project costs. In return, each participant will receive a free printed copy of the book (plus shipping).

It is especially important to us to give the younger generation of lettering artists access to this opportunity. That’s why we offer students (with proof of enrollment) a 30% discount on the regular price. All submissions will be reviewed by a curatorial board of professional lettering artists to ensure quality. Please note, we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not meet our standards, which include technical aspects, originality, depth, context, and more. We strive to maintain a high level of quality throughout the content, so each submission is carefully reviewed, and we provide personal feedback on every application.

HOW TO reserve and book a space:

1. Send an email to [email protected] with the number of spreads you would like to book and links or samples of the artworks, so we can review them and get back to you.
2. Receive a link and pay the submission fee.
3. Now your space is booked. We’II get in touch with more information about the upload.
4. Upload the requested files and information until December 8th, 2024 (latest!) and you will be guided step-by-step through the process.

Early Bird rate (EB), excl. tax, available until November 20th, 2024
Regular rate (R), excl. tax, available until December 8th, 2024

1 page: € 99.– (EB) + Vat / € 119.– + Vat (R)
= 1 Artwork

2 pages / 1 spread: € 189.– (EB) + Vat / € 209.– + Vat (R)
= 2 Artworks (big) OR 1 Artwork big + up to 4 small ones

4 pages / 2 spreads + 1 IG Story: € 339.– (EB) + Vat / € 369.– + Vat (R)
= 4 Artworks (big) OR 2 Artworks big + up to 8 small ones

6 pages / 3 spreads + 2 IG Story: € 499.– (EB) + Vat / € 539.– + Vat(R)
= 6 Artworks (big) OR 3 Artworks big + up to 12 small ones

For those who book two double pages or more, we are pleased to offer a feature in the form of an Instagram Story on the Slanted Publishers channel, which currently has 127K followers. This is a great opportunity to share your work with a broader audience at no additional cost.

Get detailed information about the book, special rates for multiple spreads in combination with all Slanted online features, and our media reach from this PDF.

© Visual: Xesta Studio

Yearbook of Lettering #2 / Participant Fee (World)

HOW TO reserve and book a space:

Early Bird rate (EB), excl. tax, available until November 20th, 2024
Regular rate (R), excl. tax, available until December 8th, 2024

1 page: € 99.– (EB) + Vat / € 119.– + Vat (R)
= 1 Artwork

2 pages / 1 spread: € 189.– (EB) + Vat / € 209.– + Vat (R)
= 2 Artworks (big) OR 1 Artwork big + up to 4 small ones

4 pages / 2 spreads + 1 IG Story: € 339.– (EB) + Vat / € 369.– + Vat (R)
= 4 Artworks (big) OR 2 Artworks big + up to 8 small ones

6 pages / 3 spreads + 2 IG Story: € 499.– (EB) + Vat / € 539.– + Vat(R)
= 6 Artworks (big) OR 3 Artworks big + up to 12 small ones

Get detailed information about the book, special rates for multiple spreads in combination with all Slanted online features, and our media reach from this PDF.

© Visual: Xesta Studio

FFCGN—Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 4

The colorful, radiant logo of a stylized sun on the cover says it better than words: it’s time to shine. Culture not only fulfills the task of enlightenment, it also offers the opportunity to let our creativity and our hopeful side shine.

And they do: as every year, the brilliant minds of contemporary filmmakers and artists gather at the Film Festival Cologne. They let us dive deep into their craft, their inspirations and the dynamic interplay of storytelling and aesthetics.

The annual publication FFCGN – Die Macht der Bilder Vol. 4 accompanies the festival with many photos, insightful essays and intimate interviews. Through the lens of cinema, the editors provide an insight into the diverse perspectives and innovative approaches that shape today’s cultural landscape and pop culture. Whether the filmmakers are exploring themes such as identity, social justice or the human condition, they illuminate the world with their unique views and perspectives and invite us to accompany them.

Grafikmagazin 05.24 – Haptik & Print

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 “Illustration”. 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. This particular cover was realized in six different versions from different studios and artists, each riso–printed. 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.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.4 Trees in Potsdam

3.33333333…..x 3 is an experimental art project by Maki Ishii. It is a series of zines where Ishii interviews animals, birds, insects, trees, and more, in collaboration with an animal communicator who can speak with them.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.4 Trees in Potsdam is an art project that encourages us to rethink and explore how we can coexist with other beings.

Vol.4 features trees in Potsdam.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.3 Zoo in Berlin

3.33333333…..x 3 is an experimental art project by Maki Ishii. It is a series of zines where Ishii interviews animals, birds, insects, trees, and more, in collaboration with an animal communicator who can speak with them.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.3 Zoo in Berlin is an art project that encourages us to rethink and explore how we can coexist with other beings.

Vol.3 features the Zoo in Berlin.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.2 Aquarium in Berlin

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.2 Aquarium in Berlin is an art project that encourages us to rethink and explore how we can coexist with other beings.

Vol.2 features Aquarium in Berlin.

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.1 Dogs in Berlin

3.33333333…..x 3—Vol.1 Dogs in Berlin is an art project that encourages us to rethink and explore how we can coexist with other beings.

Vol.1 features dogs in Berlin.

The Piano

The Piano begins with a loud BANG: piano keys fly around and become the start of something entirely new. Sven Völker views the keys as play materials and continually transforms them into—sometimes very loud and sometimes very quiet—animals.

The Piano playfully encourages children’s creativity and demonstrates how much can come from very little. The style of drawing here reveals the construction of the illustration. The onomatopoeia also creates spaces that can be wonderfully played. Does a dog go “Woof Woof” or “Wau Wau” or … ?

The picture book includes a dictionary that translates English onomatopoeia into German. The funny new vocabulary provides plenty of inspiration to create new sound words.

Emojization. Visual Communication with Emojis

A means of expression for billions of people, emojis have established their function in our everyday lives. Increasingly complex in quality and quantity, these written language companions have long since transcended the realm of written communication to become a pop culture phenomenon of their own. This handbook “Emojization. Visual Communication with Emojis” is a manual and source of inspiration for anyone seeking to understand and use the full potential of emojis in visual communication.
It combines cultural, historical, and theoretical backgrounds with practical application examples. Selected works from recent years demonstrate the formal diversity of emojis and offer inspiration for one’s own work. Specific cases are used to show how emojis can be used in very different ways in the implementation of design tasks and creative projects to thus become part of visual identities.

Alekos Hofstetter – Tannhäuser Tor III

The subject of the Tannhäuser Tor series of works by draftsman and painter Alekos Hofstetter is the relationship between space, time, and distance.
For his creative process, Hofstetter employs changing perspectives on architecture and its history over time. Through his unique power of imagination and sensitivity, Alekos Hofstetter creates a new relationship to the spatial dimensions of existence in his artworks, which are mostly created using mixed media (including ink, colored pencil, and permanent marker) by superimposing iconic, emblematic architectural representations with lettering, elements from comics, and the aesthetics of graphic techniques.

REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto

Lars Harmsen and Markus Lange, the visionary duo behind Poster Rex, know about the power of signs. Their posters combine contemporary aesthetics with uncomfortable images from our turbulent times, often in a political and/or socio-critical context. Poster Rex represents pop culture and the enduring strength of creativity and human resilience, the rebellious spirit of Poster Rex provokes and awakens hope.

This is evidenced not only by the screen-printed posters but also by the powerful statements of over 25 designers and artists they’ve collaborated and printed with on-site, including notable figures such as Peter Bankov (CZ), Edwin van Gelder (NL), Mirko Borsche (DE), Götz Grämlich (DE), Ariane Spanier (DE), Officina Arara (PT), Yetkin Başarır (TR), and many more …

REBEL PRINTS—The Poster Rex Manifesto is a selection of screen-printed posters created over the last 10 years in collaboration with Poster Rex and artists from around the world.

Unique original screenprints from the Poster Rex sessions will be offered exclusively in the Slanted Shop to accompany the book. More info here.

Jim Avignon: Business as Unusual

The painter, illustrator and conceptual artist Jim Avignon is one of the most unconventional characters in the current German art world. Vibrant colors and unpretentious materials, a good dose of wit and an enormous output are his trademarks.

For the first time an opulent monograph allows a comprehensive insight into the complex oeuvre of the artist, who has always sought confrontation with the establishment and who could never decide whether he wanted to be pop-art, street-art, Picasso on acid or whether he was simply the fastest painter in the world.

Avignon’s narrative about “things not going as planned” is full of concise quips and not without a certain delight. He expounds his peculiar relationship with the art market and describes the exhibitions that finally put him on the map as an exceptional artist. We get to read about odd detours into the world of commerce, a stolen bear, paintings that need ironing, call-for-help socks and how a mural almost landed him in jail. Avignon spills the beans about the high and lows of one of the strangest careers the art world has seen in the last 25 years—expect a lot of detail, an ironic undertone and an abundance of images.

Accompanying texts written by ATAK, Sandra Prill, and Lars Willumeit.

Neoangin

Das musikalische ABC (The musical ABC) is a joint project by Anja Lutz and Jim Avignon created for Typo Berlin 2014.

This synesthetic experiment merges music, illustration and typography in the most entertaining and unorthodox way. Avignon, who is also internationally known as performer Neoangin, has written a song for each letter of the alphabet for which Lutz and Avignon created corresponding visual interpretations on 26 spreads. The musical show has it’ s world premiere at Typo Berlin 2014 and can be followed by leafing through The musical ABC, analogue to the notation of a classical concert (only much more entertaining). The music is also available for online streaming. Enjoy!

Introduction by Kathrin Passig

Online streaming: The musical ABC

Zero Waste Ballpoint Pen in Red

Handmade and 3D printed from truly biodegradable bioplastic in Hamburg, Germany. 100% recyclable, climate-neutral and made entirely from European material. The Ballpoint Pen in Red comes in environmentally friendly recycled packaging and is part of our own recycling program.

Housing: Biodegradable bioplastic, Austria

Refill: Metal, extra broad in black, indelible according to ISO 12757-2, climate-compensated, Germany

Spring: Piano wire, Germany

Packaging: Recycled paper, Switzerland

Manufactured in: Hamburg, Germany

Mechanics: Screw

Zero Waste Ballpoint Pen in Black

Handmade and 3D printed from truly biodegradable bioplastic in Hamburg, Germany. 100% recyclable, climate-neutral and made entirely from European material. The Ballpoint Pen in Black comes in environmentally friendly recycled packaging and is part of our own recycling program.

Housing: Biodegradable bioplastic, Austria

Refill: Metal, extra broad in black, indelible according to ISO 12757-2, climate-compensated, Germany

Spring: Piano wire, Germany

Packaging: Recycled paper, Switzerland

Manufactured in: Hamburg, Germany

Mechanics: Screw

Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design

Gert Dumbar (1940) is one of the most influential—and colourful—graphic designers in the postwar design field, both in the Netherlands and abroad. As a young partner in Tel Design, he designed one of the most iconic symbols in the Dutch public domain, the logo for the Dutch National Railways, NS, to which he has added countless designs for other clients with his own Studio Dumbar. Applauded or reviled, Studio Dumbar has left an indelible mark on Dutch and international visual culture.

Dumbar produced a vast amount of work, for an enormously varied clientele, from avant-garde theatres to the central government, from hospitals to multinationals. That work and the Werdegang of its namesake are now—for the first time—described and interpreted with great verve by the two authors in a richly illustrated book.

Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design considers this fabulously versatile oeuvre in its time and context and examines the various roles Dumbar played—that of artist, provocateur and “design director”, student and teacher, cultural initiator and mediator. Unique is the treasure trove of sketches from the Studio’s archives, which were abundantly sampled for the book. It provides insight into Dumbar’s independent, agile mind, his gift for engaging talented young designers, and his ability to time and again seduce his very diverse commissioners to tread unconventional paths.

Max Bruinsma is a design critic, editor, curator and lecturer. He was the editor-in-chief of Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design (founded by Rick Poynor). He has written on design extensively, and has been teaching in many international positions.

Leonie ten Duis is an art historian and writer. One of her best-known books is The World Must Change: Graphic Design and Idealism / De wereld moe(s)t anders: grafisch ontwerpen en idealisme.

September 2024, Valiz supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, het Cultuurfonds and Jaap Harten Fonds Foundation

Claudia Reinhardt: Witwen / Widows

“I have always been fascinated by the dark bedrooms with their heavy oak matrimonial beds, the living rooms that were never used (at most when visitors from outside came), and the kitchens that had to be always spick and span and tidy. Symbols of a German childhood. Mirrors of a war generation that will soon no longer exist. For several years I visited more than thirty widows and photographed in their apartments. In my native town of Viernheim in southern Hesse, in Berlin, Hamburg, in the Ruhrpott and in Norway. I worked with a medium format camera, a cumbersome technique that gave me time and required a lot of patience.

I didn’t want to photograph the faces of the women, but rather in their apartments, to trace their inner state of mind. I found metaphors for their sadness, their melancholy and secretiveness. A difficult task, because for these women, home is not something to be shown and exhibited. Privacy is sacred to them. I was tempted by this challenge. This is exactly the essence of my photography. To gain access and insight. To tell hidden stories with pictures.” (Claudia Reinhardt, April 2020)

Conversations Across Place

Conversations Across Place (CAP) provides a publishing platform for international artists and writers engaging with landscape in the broader sense of geography, ecology, space, place, built and “natural” environments. Contemporary discourse focused on decolonial, feminist and queer methodologies is underscored through a variety of subjects and themes in order to reveal historical and present-day entanglements. The format of “conversation” – of translation and dialogue – frames this project, which originated in a process-based workshop. Artists, writers and architects gathered to converse across the borders that divide places and disciplines, enacting the tangling that already exists in our plural ecosystems.

Volume I: The first volume of Conversations Across Place grapples with the reflexive relationships of extraction, ruination and reverberation, working towards solidarity across places and perspectives. Within and between the essays, texts, interviews/conversations and artwork that make up the book, landscapes both metaphorical and material are mapped onto each other producing new images of liminal times and spaces that provide a critical opportunity to reassess diverse relationships to the world. The book uses queer and decolonial methods as explicit tools of disorientation, questioning the clarity of time and space that rises from a Western cis-heteronormative and imperial context. Rather than a field guide, this book proposes a constellation of material – a horizontal network made of various perspectives which together may point in new directions.

List of contributors:

Shruti Belliappa (writer) / Nicola Brandt: Artist (Founder and series editor of Conversations Across Place) / Ama Josephine B. Johnstone: Speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist / Peter Coffin: Conceptual artist / Denise Lim: Decolonial sociologist and Fellow at Yale University / Solveig Lønmo: Art historian and curator / Lorenzo Nassimbeni: Architect and conceptual artist / Lipika Pelham: Writer, broadcaster and filmmaker / Elisa Schaar: Curator and art historian / Hildegard Titus: photographer and activist / Sumayya Vally: Architect and founder of collaborative architecture studio Counterspace / Frances Whorrall-Campbell: Artist and writer (Guest editor and curator of Conversations Across Place)

Book recommendations

“If there was ever a time when we needed new intellectual maps and new cultural thinking, it is now, if ever there was a time for inspiration and beauty, it is now, if there was a time for us to share the message that this volume has to offer, it is today. This is a timely and astutely considered book that offers affecting and important reflections on this complex moment of cultural adaptation.”

– Augustus Casely-Hayford, OBE, Director, V&A East

”Conversations Across Place: Reckoning with an Entangled World, Vol. 1 is a compelling collation of novel and enlightening perspectives organised around the idea of landscape/place. This collection of essays, interviews and images is provocative; creatively and imaginatively engaging with a host of critical contemporary paradigms through a wide and venturous lens.”

– Mark Raymond, Director, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg

Timewarp

Timewarp by Lorenzo Petrantoni, graphic artist, illustrator, designer and artist from Milan, Italy, known for his reinterpretations of historical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries in his particular personal aesthetic. His works are created by using 19th century engravings from old books he finds in bookshops, libraries, markets and fairs around the world. Using hand-made collage, Petrantoni combines and assembles these engravings to create unique and striking images.

His compositions have become iconic, used by renowned brands like Coca Cola, Nespresso, New York Times, Newsweek, Samsonite, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and many more, as well as museums, publishers, and galleries worldwide. Thanks to his extraordinary creativity and technical mastery, Petrantoni gives vintage images new life and meaning, transforming them into works of contemporary art.

Timewarp presents these works from recent years and is a fascinating journey through time, where the past merges with the present through the creative genius of Lorenzo Petrantoni.

Collision + Hand-Signed Prints

When the book Collision was printed, Lars Harmsen was able to save some of the printed sheets. He took them to his screen printing workshop in Italy, where he overprinted them with colorful motifs, creating a series of unique pieces. No two prints are alike.

We have carefully selected and compiled five hand-signed, unique prints. The result is 20 sets of 5 prints each, which are included as a special edition with the book Collision. Exclusively available in our shop.