Play the System—Parametric Approaches in Graphic Design

In graphic design, the focus is rarely on the spontaneous stroke of genius—it’s rather about a process-oriented approach to design. Digital tools, algorithms, and systems increasingly shape not only the final outcome but also the process itself. As a result, the role of the designer is changing: instead of crafting every detail, they increasingly design the framework in which design emerges.

Over more than twenty years of teaching, Heike Grebin has developed an approach centered on this shift. Its main appeal lies in developing dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process. Design is generated by a set of specifications whose effects can be explored, varied, and used creatively—this is parametric design.

Play the System demonstrates, through selected examples from design history and academic teaching, how even minimal changes to individual parameters such as size, color, spacing, or movement—driven by input values, chance, or external influences—lead to different outcomes and open up space for variation, experimentation, and surprise.

Conversations with designers, programmers, and researchers such as Luna Maurer, Anja Groten, Frieder Nake, and Tom Bieling address key questions: How do systems foster—or limit—creativity? How do tools influence aesthetic decisions? And how can design respond to the structures of society itself?

As a hybrid publication, Play the System operates systemically itself. The website ↗ www.play-the-system.xyz  complements the book with additional content and serves as the central data source for all projects published through an automated web-to-print process.

Play the System is a reader, an introduction, and a richly illustrated archive—all in one. Bringing together theory, education, and practice, it makes system-based and parametric design accessible to readers beyond the design discipline.

 

PLOP #01—Polish Design Revue

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Is Polish design polished—or is polish the design? PLOP—Polish Design Revue explores the tension between Polish identity, global aesthetics, and the endless act of polishing. Through sharp questions and critical perspectives, this quarterly revue investigates what happens when Polish design becomes polished, overpolished, depolished—or something entirely new.

Published by Slanted Publishers in collaboration with Three Dots Type Foundry and the Polish Graphic Design Foundation, PLOP invites readers to rethink authorship, style, quality, and cultural context in contemporary Polish graphic design. The first issue features works by Martyna Wędzicka, Kuki Iwański, and Paweł Mildner, an essay by Aleksandra Tulibacka, and edgy forms of the Radius typeface.

PLOP is a thought-provoking snapshot of current debates in Polish visual culture—questioning whether polish enhances identity or erases it.

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Solomiya, No. 5—After Now

Now in its twelfth year, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine has transformed from a singular rupture into an enduring state of crisis; from a suspension of law into a law of suspension. At a moment when grief and anger dominate public and private life, envisioning the future can feel out of reach.

Solomiya No. 5—After Now reflects on hope and freedom not as a triumph, but as a complex, often compromised condition, entangled in inequality, shaped by trauma, and co-opted by power. By gathering voices from Yemen to Ukraine, from Georgia to Germany, we turn our attention to the present, to the conditions shaping the paths that futures may follow.

With contributions from 21 artists, journalists and scientists, we navigate the deadlocks of communication and the paradox of imagining a post-war future within ongoing war. They hold space for doubt, contradiction, and the possibility of being wrong—through testimonies of soldiers and veterans, and expressions of embodied experiences of dancers, imagined chess figures, dopamine supermen, astronauts, and dried watermelons.

Mensch. Raum. Geschichte.

Mensch. Raum. Geschichte. is the publication accompanying the Photographic Collection of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf.

The volume offers, for the first time, a comprehensive insight into a collection that brings together photography from its beginnings to the present day—ranging from commissioned work and private family photographs to artistic practices. Images from different periods and contexts enter into a visual dialogue, opening up perspectives on urban history, city life, social participation, and the medium of photography itself.

Accompanying texts by various authors reflect on the collection as a historically evolved visual memory and critically examine the processes of collecting and image production.

Invisible City

What remains of a colonial past when it disappears from the cityscape, is distorted in the archive – or reappears as a staged backdrop?

Invisible City is a visual investigation in the Chinese metropolis of Qingdao. Starting from a colonial photographic archive, Jimmi Wing Ka Ho traces the visible and invisible legacies of German colonial rule—from restored Wilhelminian villas to the myth-laden sewage systems beneath the city. The city itself becomes an archive in which history vanishes, is rewritten – and yet continues to shape the present.

What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest

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What was design? is a quick starter to one of modernity’s most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, “design” was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question “What is design?” are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective. This book looks back, presenting a century of design thinking in its most compact form: a collection of bold quotes.

What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest pits 87 historical one-sentence answers from practitioners, theorists, and philosophers against one another. The result is a web of radical short-form definitions that remain strikingly contradictory in their references. This selection is accompanied by an essay from Florian Walzel, exploring the deeper reasons behind the conceptual ambiguity of design.

45 Symbols—Clay to Code

How can research findings, personal experiences, and complex ideas be translated into a concise visual identity?

45 Symbols—Clay to Code examines how emerging artists and designers develop systematic approaches to a visual language, inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history: the 3,700-year-old, still-undeciphered Phaistos Disc, embossed with 45 distinct symbols. The works present a range from personal narratives to global themes and demonstrate how an original visual grammar can be constructed.

Over more than a decade, the internationally hosted design seminar series The Phaistos Project—Forty-five Symbols have evolved into a global community—driven by open calls, workshops, exhibitions, and risograph publications. This volume, 45 Symbols—Clay to Code, brings together over 2,000 symbols as the result of this collaborative endeavor. It stands not only as a living archive of research inquiries but also as a testament to collective experimentation, bold visions, and the expression of intercultural dialogue.

The contributions are organized into five thematic fields:

I. Traces of everyday life, material culture, and the domestic archive
II. Planetary surfaces, landscape as archive, and the ecological memory of the Anthropocene
III. Politics of language, symbols of protest, and collective transformation
IV. Cultural scripts, spiritual codes, and visual identity
V. Speculative alphabets, linguistic flux, and future archives

This book aims to both inspire and provide hands-on methods for developing skills in visual storytelling, documentation, and reflection practice that foster authentic, systematic, and distinctive personal outcomes.

 

This book will serve as a primary reference for decades … We see the transition from physical clay to digital code clearly. The book captures this linguistic flux perfectly.
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Grafikmagazin 06.25

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 “Corporate Publishing.” 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.

Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools

Please note: This is a preorder only, the magazine gets shipped once published in April 2026.

Slanted Magazine #47 – Digital Tools examines the instruments that shape contemporary creative practice. This issue offers a diverse insight into the global creative scene and uses numerous examples to show how digital tools are used to create, question, and rethink design itself.

The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to indispensable utilities that shape creative digital and analog workflows, continuously expanding and redefining creative boundaries. Slanted Magazine #47 – Digital Tools covers disciplines such as graphic and type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding. Designers, artists, and developers share their insights in interviews and articles, explaining how digital tools shape their aesthetics, imagination, and authorship.

By introducing new workflows and technologies, Slanted Magazine #47 – Digital Tools inspires both experienced designers and beginners to explore the creative potential of digital design.

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Belles Mômes

Belles Mômes by Clélia Odette interweaves portraits and thoughts of various women into an honest encounter with the aging female body, revealing its natural beauty in all its complexity and depth.

The book tells of insecurities, doubts, courage and self-empowerment, breaks with patriarchal ideas and taboos and celebrates traces of aging as a carrier of stories and experiences – and as a symbol of strength. An intimate and powerful plea for visibility and the right to be seen in one’s own body.

The Algae Paper

The Algae Paper is an essential book by artist Julien Villaret, addressing the fields of art, design, and craftsmanship with an environmental focus.

Starting with the production of sheets of algae paper in the Brittany region 12 years ago, The Algae Paper develops a wide–ranging and protean body of work (installation, collage, molding, photography, screen printing, typography) in between France and Germany where the artist lives. The project gives shape to a new poetic imaginary, bringing the ocean’s continuous backwash into the artistic process—a movement that sets the rhythm of life and desire.

FRIEND – an interactive friendship journal (friend book)

In a time when friendship happens online, real connection is losing space. We chat, like and react — holding people in pixels, glowing for a moment, fast, bright, and gone.

This book starts empty and ends full: A collection of people, moments and thoughts, to fill together and remember forever.

FRIEND – an interactive friendship journal is a space to slow down and reconnect. A place of color, handwriting and honest words. Filled by many, it turns into a collective piece of art.

Notes on Book Design. By Formal Settings

Fifty readings on book design, authored by Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of Formal Settings, unfold across the pages of this volume. Drawn from a curated selection of titles in the private collection of Hopscotch Reading Room –a conceptual bookshop and event space in Berlin—each text focuses on a single book, examining its visual and tactile qualities, from materials and layout to binding and typography. “Our aim is to understand the role and potential of books through a design lens, mapping what they communicate through their physical form.”

The authors guide readers through the intricacies of book design, showing how form can become message—how a book can serve as a vessel, a statement, and an object of beauty in its own right. They explore and examine each book as a design object, situating it within the cultural movements, political climates, and economic conditions in which it was produced. Notes on Book Design. By Formal Settings reveals how book design can foster shared languages and cultures, create space for the exchange and exploration of ideas, and underscore the social and cultural dimensions of design itself.

Tierra sin Agua

What happens when the water disappears?

Almost every year, new records of heat and drought are broken. In Spain, this leads to profound water shortages. The crisis is visible in failed harvests, empty reservoirs and vanishing lagoons. While human-induced climate change plays an important role, the issue is more complex and closely linked to Spain’s cultural relationship with water.

In her photo-documentary project Tierra sin Agua (Spanish for Land Without Water), Ana Rodríguez Heinlein explores the many layers of the water crisis in Spain. Through photographs and texts, including an essay and notes from a travel diary, she creates a narrative that contrasts different aspects of the subject. The way she arranges images and inter- weaves text and visual material results in a work of subjective documentary.

TEATRIP JAPAN – Auf den Spuren des grünen Goldes

TEATRIP JAPAN is an invitation to immerse in the fascinating world of Japanese green tea. In Japan, tea is much more than just a beverage—it is a living expression of culture. For centuries, the tea ceremony has been practiced in Zen temples—a meditative moment of silence, mindfulness, and deep respect that once brought not only monks, but even samurai a sense of inner peace.

The editors take readers on a captivating journey to the roots of this cultural tradition. Along the way, they meet tea farmers, merchants, and ceramic artists—individuals whose passion for tea began in childhood and continues to shape their lives. The book offers insights into the tea ceremony and the intricate hand-rolling technique known as temomi, all accompanied by atmospheric photography from the tea-growing regions of Kagoshima, Uji, and Shizuoka. Green tea enthusiasts will discover fascinating facts about different varieties, production methods, and preparation techniques.

Japanese green tea delights with its gentle sweetness and refreshingly fruity notes—a true sensory experience. TEATRIP JAPAN is a visual and cultural celebration—a heartfelt homage to an ancient tradition.

Available in German language only.

ON THE EDGES OF GRAPHIC DESIGN FROM A—Z—∞

On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z —∞ celebrates the past, present, and future of alternative Graphic Design by the hands and minds of a multidisciplinary and international Design community, their practices, and community-building experiences at A—Z Presents, the space for experimental graphic design based in Berlin.

Assuming the form of an “Index for alternative Graphic Design”, the book offers a comprehensive view of the wide range of activities performed by a multitude of graphic designers and visual artists from diverse backgrounds, ages, and career standings in the past six years. It also covers the continuity of the space, extended by how a group of international designers envision the future of the discipline of Graphic Design.

The first part, A—Z, features all the projects, workshops, exhibitions, talks, and a wide range of activities and events initiated by A—Z Presents. In alphabetical cross-referenced entries, with the contributions of designers such as Na Kim, Niklaus Troxler, The Rodina, to name just a few, as well as a myriad of related topics, from “Asemic Writing”, “Rebellion Riso Posters” to “Yellow Bench”, and over a hundred entries in between.

The second part, titled —∞, features 32 international designers, including April Greiman, Richard Niessen, Loraine Furter, etc., invited to envision the future of Graphic Design and how they could be enacted in a transdisciplinary space like A—Z Presents. The contributions range from reflections on the body in digital space and AI to interspecies relationships and language viewed through different scripts, among many others.

The richly illustrated publication is designed and conceptualized by A—Z Presents founder and curator Anja Lutz, who sees the book as a “meta-level for the continuous exploration of alternative thinking and practicing graphic design.” The book features an introduction by Jason Grant and a conversation between Freek Lomme and Anja Lutz.

Featured graphic designers and artists in the section A—Z:

Albert Coers, Alex Jordan, Anita Di Bianco, Andrea Tinnes, Andreas Koch, Claudia de la Torre, Florian Dombois, Inkahoots, Johannes Bergerhausen & Ilka Helmig, L.I.P Collective, Lucienne Roberts, Mark van Wageningen, Mindy Seu, Mirtha Dermisache, MMS, Na Kim, Niklaus Troxler, Patrick Thomas, Rebellion Riso Posters Collab, Sarah Boris, Teaching Design, The Rodina, Tine Melzer & Markus Kummer and many more designers participating in the collective projects and exhibitions.

Featured graphic designers and artists in the section —∞:

Aggie Toppins, April Greiman, Chris Campe, Christopher Sleboda & Kathleen Sleboda, Elliott Earls, Flávia Nalon & Fábio Prata, Golnar Kat-Rahmani, James Langdon, John Walters, Joseph Foo, Jordan Rita Seruya Awori, Julia Kahl, Katharina Nejdl, Kiyonori Muroga, Lena Weber, Loraine Furter, Luna Maurer, Madita Flohe, Mariko Takagi, Martí Guixé, Mushon, Prem Krishnamurthy, Rebeca Mendez, Richard Niessen, Sandra Doeller, Sandy Kaltenborn, Sara Kaaman, Silvia Sfligiotti, Silvio Lorusso, Siwar Kraitem, Tobias Röttger & Susanne Stahl, Ulrike Brückner & Bianca Herlo

Yearbook of Lettering #2

Building on the success of its acclaimed predecessor, Yearbook of Lettering #2 brings the global lettering scene to life like never before. From elegant calligraphy and expressive hand lettering to bold graffiti, street art, and dynamic 3D-lettering, this volume celebrates the creativity, diversity, and energy shaping contemporary lettering today.

The book is organized into clearly defined sections to showcase the full spectrum of contemporary lettering:

Ambassadors — in-depth interviews and works from leading figures such as “Tyrsa” Alexis Taïeb, Ying Chang, Ken Barber, Ruben Malayan, Tina Touli, Carmi Grau, Abdelrahman Barakat, and Dave Towers.

Artists — 90 outstanding artists from 31 countries, with generous space for their work spanning calligraphy, hand lettering, graffiti, street art, and 3D-lettering.

Findings — 216 selected works from Instagram, compactly presented to highlight the incredible diversity of today’s lettering community.

Index — comprehensive artist information from A to Z, including bios, style descriptions, materials used, and contact details.

Yearbook of Lettering #2 is both an inspirational showcase and a practical guide for designers, agencies, and lettering enthusiasts worldwide. Explore the stories, techniques, and personalities that make contemporary lettering such a dynamic and ever-evolving field.

 

A book whose cover by Hugo Moura impressed us from the very first moment and which perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the Slanted Publishers.
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Kunst kleben. Washi Tape Art. Das Tutorial

You are familiar with Japanese washi tape in all its colours and patterns. You may already use it for journaling and scrapbooking – but this fantastic masking tape can do so much more: Natascha Fix and Jörg Bockow reveal the art of sticking.
In no time at all, tape and cutters become tools with which you can express your creativity and easily create impressive illustrations on paper, on the wall or on the window. Washi tape is made from plant fibres, is flexible and easy to remove. It is available in plain colours or patterns, geometric or floral designs, and is inexpensive. Creative work with these colourful tapes guarantees quick successes and is the ideal analogue counterpoint to an everyday life dominated by digital tools.

Love & Lightning—A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos

Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos is a thematically ordered, inconclusive collection of queer, feminist and queer-feminist manifestos. Girls Like Us Magazine and author Sarah van Binsbergen have composed a publication showcasing the different forms a manifesto might have, from classical, activist formats to more poetic, associative texts. The manifestos highlighted in this book cross borders, forms and disciplines, refuse binary logics, transcend our concepts of time and space and surpass the neoliberal logic.

Love & Lightning does not claim to be a complete anthology, but it rather aims to show the myriad of ways manifestos can be composed, and what their legacy until this day is. It presents manifestos from 1851 until now, divided into eleven chapters, introduced in their socio-historical and geographical contexts, with many from Asia, Africa, Latin-America. Not only does this publication give new insight in the style of the manifesto, it aims to emancipate the reader to propose their own revolution, whether big or small.

Contributors: Manifestos include: Ain’t I a Woman by Soujourner Truth; Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto; Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey; The Manukan Declaration of the Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network; W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto; Fag Hags Fight Back!!!; Manifesto for Maintenance Art by Mierle Laderman-Ukeles; Dyke Manifesto from the Lesbian Avengers; Killjoy Manifesto by Sara Ahmed; Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks; The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto from Sandy Stone; Refugia! Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones by subRosa; Countersexual Manifesto from Paul B. Preciado; and many, many more. Partner: Girls Like Us Magazine

Platform Brutality—Closing Down Internet Toxicity

The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just a few. This brutal turn ultimately affects all. The central thesis is that social media no longer just distracts—it wounds. And yet, we stay.

Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible and indirect. Exclusion, which many do not immediately notice, happens deep inside the code and network architecture. The answer will not be pacification or regulation but the dismantling of the platform principle itself.

Platform Brutality not just offers critical analyses but also dives into alternatives. Topics range from the violent turn of the internet and techno-feudalism debates, to loneliness on social media, radical data critique, mythologies that surround the smart phone, dreaming in the computer age, offline romanticism to question how to leave the platforms, bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital.

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of many publications, translated into various languages. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA).

Slow Technology Reader—A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures

Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens. By turns artistic, speculative, and academic the contents here probe alternative potentials for the digital entities proliferating in our midst, by invoking variable pacings and temporalities of engagement; reflecting through tools and techniques that have endured the test of time; and looking to non-Western and more-than-human sources to inspire technological development.

This new volume in the Slow Reader series gestures toward a fuller spectrum of what technology is and can be, moving beyond the limited perspectives and legacy structures that dominate technological development today. It includes the rich insights and intelligences of feminist, queer, Indigenous, activist, and ecological practices—offering them as vibrant data points for shaping more just and generative futures. At a time when the digital reaches into nearly every facet of planetary existence, this book aims to disrupt and recalibrate how we think about and relate/live with technology, illuminating more expansive pathways forward.

Contributions: Paula Albuquerque, Kader Attia, Aïsta Bah, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Pac.me B.ru, Cláudio Bueno, Derrais Carter, Raven Chacon, Joana Chicau, Guy Cools, Laura Coombs, Siobhán K. Cronin, Will Daddario, Edwidge Danticat, Thierno Dia, Mamadou Taslim Diallo, Henriette Essami-Khaullot, Silvia Federici, Mariana Fernández Mora, Ella Finer, Jem Finer, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Dakin Hart, Faïza Hirach, Candice Hopkins, Christine Hvidt, Carol R. Kallend, Theun Karelse, Danel Khojayeva, Suzanne Kite, Fran Kourouma, Jaron Lanier, Jason Edward Lewis, Pia Lindman, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda, Pierre Marchand, Michael Marder, Nanako Nakajima, Florence Okoye, Marina Orlova, Jogi Panghaal, Moisés Patrício, Rory Pilgrim, Elisabeth (elieli) Raymond, Milady Renoir, Oscar Santillán, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Camila Sposati, Christel Stalpaert, Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, Carolyn F. Strauss, Foluke Taylor, Alberto Isifin Tchama, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Evelyn Wan, Halidou Wuandaougo, Arkadi Zaides, Joanne Zerdy, Martín Zícari

Support: Creative Industries Fund NL, Cultuurfonds

Grafikmagazin 05.25

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 “Corporate Publishing.” 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.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a visual journey into the vibrant heart of Egypt’s creative scene. The dynamic design culture of Cairo—and beyond—reveals just how diverse, innovative, and powerful creative voices in Egypt are today.

From graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture and product design, Slanted #46 showcases outstanding projects that are shaping the cultural present and future of the region. Whether through progressive branding concepts, experimental approaches, or striking visual storytelling, this issue reflects the powerful creative energy flowing through Egypt. Slanted gives space to designers, illustrators, and artists from Cairo, other Egyptian cities, and abroad—highlighting their work and personal statements. In-depth essays and articles on cultural, social, and creative topics related to Cairo and Egypt round out the issue.

Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo is a compelling portrait of a design scene in motion—bold, diverse, and brimming with fresh perspectives. On our trip to Cairo, we conducted numerous interviews with people from the creative industries, which have been edited into the short film Cairo Unscripted—Exploring Cairo’s Past, Present, and Creative Future by design studio Ntsal. It is available for free on ↗ slanted.de/cairo

To mark the release of Slanted Magazine #46—Cairo, we’re launching a special edition with five stunning photo prints by Markus Lange, as well as a striking hoodie collaboration with Reell and Negmedine Khaled—subscribe to Slanted and keep the creative journey going.

We are absolutely in love with the journey we have taken thanks to this book. The alternation between graphic elements such as images and illustrations and columns of text make this publication an object in itself that is worth holding in your hands.
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