Slanted #18 – Signage / Orientation

Slanted #18 – Signage / Orientation focuses on the ups and downs, the lefts and rights, the stops and go’s, the Kiss+Ride and many more. Featured are many extraordinary wayfinding and orientation systems with different levels of complexity and relevant Typefaces.

We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports: The NYCTA and Unimark International (Paul Shaw, New York City, US), Typografie & Architektur (Tim Loffing, Dortmund), U8 (Anton Koovit, Berlin), Einer für alle, alle für einen – Orientierung & Identit.t am neuen Campus der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Erwin K. Bauer, Vienna, AT), iMapping – Visual Orientation in Personal Knowledge Space (Heiko Haller, Karlsruhe), Leserlichkeit von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum – eine Untersuchung (Florian Adler and Sven Neumann, Berlin), Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and ageing readers (Thomas Bohm, Leicester, UK), Wo bin ich? – über Schrift und öffentliche Verkehrssysteme (Indra Kupferschmid, Bonn, Saarbrücken), Die Kunst der Desorientierung (Maurice van Brast, Weimar), Das Leid (Frank Wiedemann, Berlin) sowie Faith / Void Split (Ian Lynam, Tokyo, JP).

The photo collection Departure/Arrival (thanks to Ken Johnston, Historical Corbis NY) shows stars, such as the recently deceased Bee Gee Robin Gibb, in airports. Naturally, in the context of the wayfinding system. The Airport Series by Terence Chang (San Francisco, US) shows the take-off and landing distances traveled by planes, how they are seldom seen.

New in Slanted is the Format 10×10. 10 Agencies/Designers out of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland – all experts in orientation systems – with Frank Abele (Büro für Gestaltung Wangler & Abele, Munich), Erwin K. Bauer (bauer – konzept & gestaltung, Vienna, AT), Ruedi Baur (Intégral, Zurich, CH), Gourdin & Müller (Leipzig, Hamburg), Ingeborg Kumpfmüller (Vienna, AT), Sascha Lobe (L2M3, Stuttgart), Stefan Nowak (nowakteufelknyrim, Düsseldorf), Joachim Sauter (ART+COM, Berlin), Andreas Uebele (büro uebele, Stuttgart) and Atelier Weidner Händle (Stuttgart).

Furthermore, we spoke with Moniteurs (Berlin) on the wayfinding system of the new Berlin Airport, with Vier5 (Paris, F) on their current project as well as with Timo Gaessner (Berlin) on his typeface, Maison, which is used in the magazine.

The eight page fold-out cover of the new issue shines with traffic sign colors and reflective particles – thanks to elaborate screen printing with reflective paint – incident light. An info graphic from Steffen Mackert (Karlsruhe) provides an overview of the fonts used in International Airports, streets and railroads signs.

Slanted #17 – Cartoon / Comic

Comics consist of a sequence of images (strip) that tell a story. In cartoons, the narrative point is condensed into one image. The Slanted issue # 17 – Cartoon / Comic is packed cover to cover full of naratives and typographic explosion!

Along with the New Year, the first Slanted issue of 2012 has a new face. A new oversized format, 16 more pages, and a more tightening sequence in content and layout to create more space for projects and activities.

Ken Johnston of Corbis (New York) dipped into the archives and retrieved a grotesque photo story of the atomic bomb experiments in a patriotically charged world brought to light – Doom Town, a dark comic, the best stories are real life experiences. Patrick Tsai (Tokyo) leads a photographic diary – Talking Barnacles, is a story in image sequences combined with very personal lyrics.

We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports: Motorscream Landscapes – Über die Schrift in der grafischen Literatur by Alexander Negrelli (Berlin), Geliebt und gehasst: Comic Sans by Rieke C. Harmsen (Munich), Manga & Graphic Design, Hands On und Where The Wild Things Were by Ian Lynam (Tokyo), PAT! BON! DOKAAAN! – Schriftgewitter und Lautmalerei in asiatischen Bildgeschichten by Steffen Zillig and Sohyun Jung (Hamburg), Something like Max & Moritz – Vom Erfinder des Comic by Tim Eckhorst (Kiel), A very subjective and casual comics overview from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222 by Paul Hoppe (Brooklyn NY), Survival is possible by Michael Schmidt (Munich) and Sans Comique by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin).

Furthermore, interviews with Nora Krug (Brooklyn NY), Dirk Rehm (Berlin), Alessio Leonardi (Berlin), Fred Smijers (Antwerp) and Matthew Carter (Cambridge) with insights into their living and working environments. Also the appearance of the new magazine is marked throughout the comic book world. The eight-page fold-out cover glows in red and green on the outside, while the inside are comments of readers from our blog www.slanted.de, which were posted online last November.

Slanted Magazine #16 — Bold/Light

Slanted Magazine #16 — Bold/Light is contrast. The new issue deals with the loud and the silent, the eye-catching and the inconspicuous.

BOLD is the opposite of despondent. In typography it is a popular method of accentuation. LIGHT is the opposite of noisy and bigmouthed. For this theme of contrasts we initially had more loud and bold fonts, works and pictures in mind than quiet, restrained ones. We are impressed of a time – striking and epic in its occurrences – which rushes past and carries us off. The soft overtones only get little attention at this rapid speed.

So, how can we pause, set the LIGHT against the BOLD? The fluid, cinematic moment of presentation has an exceptional meaning for us also in this issue. We are bothered about a linear concept of narration. The rhythmic comparison encourages to stay and immerse. Creative decisions and the use of typography for this compilation were stretched far to specific borders, to underline the topic and to work out the character of the two extremes. This precipitates also in the production: By the use of different, metallic Chromolux papers and a two-colored finishing, issue #16 appears with six different covers. Furthermore a haptic surprise awaits the reader in the inner part.

We are glad having the chance to present two photo series, which interpret the terms BOLD and LIGHT on a special, distinctive way: The historical photography of the propably most significant heavyweight champion of all times, Muhammad Ali (UPI/Bettmann/Corbis), as well as a critical photographical counterdraft to the “soft-washed” and alleged airy aesthetics of David Hamilton, created by Mareike Foecking (Düsseldorf).

We feature type essays by Jean François Porchez (Clarmart), Horst Wöhrle (Esslingen), Reinhard Albers (Constanz) and Nanna Funke (Münster), furthermore interviews with Ian Party (Lausanne), Ludwig Übele (Berlin), Eric Gill, Michael Horsham (London), Doug Wilson (Springfield), Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung (Zurich), Jost Hochuli (St. Gall), Thomas Lupo (Weissach) and Mareike Foecking (Düsseldorf), as well as reports by Michael Schmidt (Munich), Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travel report by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin).

Slanted Magazine #15 – Experimental

Slanted Magazine #15 – Experimental deals with experimental design strategies in typography and graphic design. This 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 experiments or goes unconventional ways in design.

The playful handling of tools, forms and concept is a popular procedure to broaden the consciousness in typography. It seems to be (regarding the huge amount of entries for this issue) a widespread phenomenon, very popular at design schools and universities. This is not a surprising fact – especially in interaction with a model, experimental results are the foundation of a theory. We placed a special experimental type section with 48 pages in this issue to be able to present a large collection of typographical experiments.

Inaccuracies sometimes lead to new precision – as in this issue’s text font. The typeface Korpus has been designed by Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen of Swiss fontlabel Binnenland. It is based on a careful analysis of inaccuracy occuring in the print image of early 20th century fonts.

This issue’s cover is realized in an oldfashioned, experimental procedure, too: Its print sheet has been produced in rainbow printing using HKS colors.

We are proud to present the photo series of Matthias Hubert (Dortmund), who photographed fans of the current German soccer champion, and of Ken Rosenthal (Tucson, AZ), who opens the darkroom to the experiment. The type essays of Christine Hartmann (Leipzig), Will Hill (Cambridge) and Shelley Gruendler (Galiano Island) deal with strategies of the experiment in typography. Read interviews with Peter Bi’lak (The Hague), Michael Mischler and Nik Thoenen (Berne), Martin and Thomas Poschauko (Au near Bad Aibling), Oded Ezer (Givatayim), Donald Beekman and Liza Enebis (Amsterdam) and Neville Brody (London) as well as an essay about Japanese Modernism, the 5th part of the Tokyo Report, both by Ian Lynam (Tokyo), and the next sonic travelogue by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin).

Slanted Magazine #14 – Grotesque 2

While Slanted #13 dealt with contemporary and historical humanist grotesque fonts, Slanted Magazine #14 – Grotesque 2 focuses on current fonts that are in tradition of Lineal, Neo- or Geometric Grotesque.

They mainly have their origins in the time of the turn of 19th to 20th century. In 1880 Ferdinand Theinhardt designed the Royal Grotesque with four weights for the Königlich-Preußische Akademie zu Berlin, from which developed the Akzidenz Grotesque in 1918. Simultaneously, from 1905 to 1930, Morris Fuller Benton created fonts on the basis of Lineal Neogrotesque: the Lineal Grotesque. Nowadays there can be observed different procedures of designing fonts, which can be named as quotations. A variety of fonts bear on historical models.

With great pleasure we present a huge number of these corresponding and related grotesque fonts, illustrations and projects. The type essays by Flo Gaertner (Karlsruhe), Robert Schumann (Berlin) and Anna Sinofzik (London) deal with them. Worth seeing photos stories are “Almost Europe” by Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung (Frankfurt am Main) who visualize the situation of refugees in the Spanish enclave Melilla, as well as »Ein Abend auf der Wiesn – Pictures taken during the great beer rush« by Volker Derlath (München). Numerous interviews with Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo (Porto), Edwin van Gelder (Amsterdam), Marta Podkowinska and Karol Gadzala (Krakow) and Hans Gremmen (Amsterdam) as well as an article about Kiyoshi Awazu as well as the 4th part of the Tokyo Report, both by Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travelogue by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin) round up the stuff to read.

decodeunicode – Die Schriftzeichen der Welt

Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen und Siri Poarangan beschäftigen sich seit vielen Jahren mit dem Projekt decodeunicode, das versucht, über eine unabhängige Online-Plattform Basis für eine typografische Grundlagenforschung zu schaffen und dem Computer-Nutzer einen inhaltlichen Zugang zu den Zeichen dieser Welt zu ermöglichen.

In Slanted Magazin #6 (2008), präsentierten wir einen Bericht über die Keilschrift, die Bergerhausen damals als »Mega-Nische« bezeichnete. Und jetzt, 3 Jahre später, veröffentlicht er mit Siri Poarangan zusammen das erste Buch zum Thema, welches alle (bisher entdeckten) 109.242 Schriftzeichen abbildet und die einzelnen Schriftsysteme vorstellt. Sowohl aktuelle und auch ausgestorbene Zeichen finden ihren Platz.

In der Einleitung des Buches heißt es: »Versteckt in den Tiefen der Tastatur schlummern ungeahnte Zeichenschätze. Unicode setzt dem Turmbau zu Babel die vereinten typografischen Nationen entgegen und verweist jedes Zeichen auf seinen codierten Platz. decodeunicode erleichtert den Zugang zu allen 109.242 digitalen Schriftzeichen dieser Welt und macht sie auffindbar. Das Projekt lädt ein zum Entdecken unbekannter Zeichen und zum typografischen Experiment mit diesem alten und neuen Zeichenschatz. Alle existierenden Schriftsysteme der Menschheit werden vorgestellt: lebende wie ausgestorbene, häufig genutzte ebenso wie Nischenschriften.«

Vermutlich kann man das Buch besser nicht umschreiben. Es ist, für uns persönlich, eines der interessantesten Bücher der letzten Jahre und ein Muss für alle Schrift-Interessierten.

 

Slanted Magazine #13 – Grotesque 1

Slanted #13 – Grotesque 1 (To Create A More Graceful, Human Appearance) deals with contemporary and historic humanist grotesque fonts. Their origin goes back to the typeface for the signage system of London Underground in the early 20th century England, and to Gill Sans that followed London Underground. Depending on the cultural sphere or classification, the typeface is also called humanist sans, lineal humanist, semi-grotesque, younger grotesque, lineal sans-serif typefaces with dynamic form principle.

With great pleasure we present a huge number of corresponding and related grotesque fonts, illustrations and projects. Worth seeing photo stories are »Heterotopien« by Karsten Kronas (Bielefeld), “A Marriage With God” by Anusha S. Yadav (London) and “Power To The People” by Christian Minke (Hüttenberg), who was on the way in Egypt recently during the revolution. The type essays by Flo Gaertner (Karlsruhe, Alexander Negrelli (Berlin) and Dan Reynolds (Berlin) deal with humanist sans typefaces. Numerous interviews with Erik Kessels (Amsterdam), Jonathan Barnbrook (London), Don Karl aka Stone (Berlin) and Pascal Zoghbi (Beirut), Christian Minke (Hüttenberg), Eiko Nagase (Tokyo), Yosuke Yamaguchi (Tokyo) as well as the third part of the Tokyo report by Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travelogue by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin) round up the stuff to read.

By the way: Slanted #13 and #14 are conceived as a double-issue featuring the wide field of grotesque fonts. Issue #14 will explore newer font-concepts in the tradition of American, neo- or geometric grotesques.

Slanted Magazine #12 – Women, Typography, Graphic Design

Beat That If You Can! – Slanted #12 – Women, Typography, Graphic Design is a stage for extraordinary and intelligent projects by women. This is not a very special thing. For our focus on visual culture it’s all the same whether a (typo-) graphic work has been realized by a female or a male being. But it’s undeniable and strange that still only very few women are visible in graphic design (more) and typography (less). We want to contribute to more visibility for at least some female type and graphic designers – design by women is at least just as well. Beat That If You Can!

With great pleasure we present the work of Ariane Spanier (Berlin), Julia Born (Amsterdam) and Verena Gerlach (Berlin), the photographic essays “Brides of Krishna” by Kalpesh Lathigra (dmbmedia / London) and “Female Marines” from the archives of the U.S. Marine Corps as well as contemporary typefaces, illustrations and graphic projects by female designers. Type essays by Laure Boer (Berlin) and Gerda Breuer/Julia Meer (Wuppertal) are dealing with the role of women in graphic design and typography and outline a corresponding history. Numerous interviews with Verena Gerlach (Berlin), Ariane Spanier (Berlin, Nadine Chahine (Bad Homburg), Veronika Burian (Prag), Laura Worthington (Washington), Kapitza (London), Geneviève Gauckler (Paris), Esen Karol (Istanbul), Akiko Kanna (Tokyo) and Susanne Baer (Tokyo) as well as the second part of the Tokyo report by Ian Lynam (Tokyo), a musical travelogue and a paper report round up stuff to read.

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Slanted Magazine #11 — Monospace, Typewriter

The Revolution won’t be set in Garamond – Slanted Magazine #11 — Monospace, Typewriter comes in revised structure and layout. Projects are confronted with each other, magazine sections overlap. The changes reflect our attitude towards contemporary editorial design in analogue and digital times. This “new order” is a homage to the visual and to design. Orientation, information and sections still have their own right and place within the magazine‘s structure, but the changing of perspectives, the relations and associations are definitely not an expression by the medium of information, rather of openness and examination. It‘s a concept that doesn’t come under the hegemony of function, a feast of the visual.

With great pleasure we present the work of studio Moiré (Zurich/CH), the photographic essays “Images from the Dark Side” by Martin Miller (Baltimore/USA) and “A Crude World” by Paolo Woods (Paris/FR) as well as contemporary typefaces, illustrations and projects related to monospace and typewriters. Type essays by Alexander Negrelli (Berlin/DE), Rieke Harmsen (Munich/DE) and Horst Wöhrle (Esslingen/DE) examine the aesthetics, history and connotations of typewriter fonts, interviews with Yves Peters (Sint-Denijs-Westrem/BE), Richard Kegler (Buffalo/USA), Georg Seifert (Berlin/DE) as well as a Tokyo report by Ian Lynam (Tokyo/JP) and a musical travelogue by DJ Frank Wiedemann (âme / INNERVISIONS, Berlin/DE) round up the stuff to read.

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Slanted Magazin #10 – Heavy Metal. Lovers.

In Slanted Magazin #10 – Heavy Metal. Lovers. we look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents the innovative work of Invisible Creature (Seattle), historic type-treasures from the archives of Linotype (Bad Homburg) and Klingspor Museum (Offenbach), the photo documentation “True Norwegian Black Metal” from Peter Beste (New York) etc. …

The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families,” “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary blackletter fonts and designers from all over the world (e.g. Aeronaut/Georg Herold-Wildfellner, SAR-Lupe/David Millhouse, Adso/Bruno Bernard), followed by interviews with Alejandro Paul, Bernard Stein, Alex Trochut and Christophe Szpajdel and an interesting type essay by Horst Wöhrle.

Furthermore Slanted Magazine introduces numerous (blackletter-)projects of professionals and students (Jeremy Hall, schmitz & wiesner, s=eee etc.). The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoThorn S10,” exclusively created for this issue in two styles. Our readers can get the beta-version of this brand new typeface for free. Furthermore Hubert Jocham created the text typeface “NeoText S10” which will be available at type foundry Volcano Type.

This issue completes our 4-part-poster-series and forms now the 4-word-sentence ”Porn 4 Type Lovers.”

Slanted Magazin #9 – Stencil. Type.

Finally here it is: the brand new Slanted magazine #9  Stencil. Type. Again, we can present very interesting content with great pleasure: projects by Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel Optimo (Geneva), the large format artworks by Christopher Wool (New York), a photo essay from Afghanistan by François Fleury (Paris) … you can read interviews with John Boardley, Kouga Hirano and Chip Kidd as well as a type essay by Hannes von Döhren. Besides we present numerous (Stencil-) works from professionals and students (amongst others Hauser, Schwarz, Mind Design, Ko Sliggers, Autobahn) …

Two further important news on our weblog: Shop and Portfolio have been added. We aim for offering interesting publications directly in the Slanted shop that have been posted on the blog. Based on intensive discussions with publishing houses we are able to offer the same prices as Amazon marketplace in Germany – or even cheaper because we can send nationally without additional costs.

At the same time we are launching Slanted typography portfolio. You can present your favourite typographic projects or new fonts to other designers. Not for free but worth its price: uniquely € 15 (in Germany) or € 18 (abroad). You’ll get a Slanted magazine of your choice and can upload as many projects as you like at any time. You can administrate your profile and let others know about it.

VERSUS (FTS_VS_Pix)

In VERSUS verschmilzt Typografie (FTS) mit Fotografie (PIX) zu einer ausdrucksstarken Einheit. 70 Schriften von Volcano Type und Fotos des Fotografen Christian Ernst zeigen verschiedenste Beispiele, wie man mit Typo und Bild umgehen kann. Zusätzlich gibt es eine CD mit allen Fonts, um diese direkt anwenden zu können. Das bereits im Verlag ausverkaufte Buch gibt es nun im Slanted BookShop mit limitierter Auflage erneut zum Kauf.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Innovationspreis der deutschen Druckindustrie 2004, Gold; Red Dot Award 2004; Berliner Type, Bronze; Stiftung Buchkunst, 2. Platz, und dem Deutschen Fotobuchpreis.

Typeviews – Interview Kompendium

To learn more about the creators and their work, directly and first hand, Slanted has conducted over 100 interviews since 2004 and has published them in the magazines and on the weblog. Typeviews brings together 61 of the most interesting interviews in a compendium and makes clear the development of the design in all its areas of tension. With this publication, Slanted closes the gap to the first five out of print editions of the magazine.

With interviews by Ruedi Baur, Ed Benguiat, Maxime Buechi, Destruct office, Leslie Cabarga, John Collins, Eikes graphic Hort, April Greiman, Fons Hickmann, Christoph Keller, Jeremy Leslie, Mario Lombardo, Jan Middendorp, Horst Moser, Jean Francois Porchez, Raban Ruddigkeit, Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Spiekermann, Hansjörg Stulle, Dirk Uhlenbrock, Vier5, Kurt Weidemann, Cornel Windlin and many more

Slanted Magazin #8 – 2d3d. 4.

Slanted Magazin #8 – 2d3d. 4. deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. More than ever Slanted Magazine even crosses geographical borders, present ing works from Edhv (Eindho ven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), Pixelgarten (Frankfurt), Maxime Buechi (Lausanne), Ina Saltz (New York), Erwin K. Bauer (Vienna), Sangho Park (Stuttgart) and many others. The s ections “Fontlabels, Fo n ts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated ” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with Sabrina Tibourtine, Christoph Dunst, Sipho Mabona, Gemma O’Brien and Mr. David Carson.

Besides a portrait “Buchstabenmuseum Berlin”, the Slanted Magazine introduces numerous 2d3d-works of professionals and students (Ebon Heath, Yulia Brodskaya, pleaseletmedesign, MWM Graphics, etc.).

The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoDepth S8”, exclusively created for this issue. Our readers can download this brand new typeface for free. As the previous issue #7, the cover is wrapped with a poster – the second one of a series of four. By end of the year, the aligned posters will create a sentence. “PORN” was the first word, followed now by “4” … because we believe, that after a step-up of dimensions from 2d to 3d – “4” should follow!

Slanted Magazine #7 – Geometrics. Porn.

The first issue in 2009 has just been released at Colophon 2009 in Luxembourg: Slanted Magazine #7 – Geometrics.Porn.

„Geometrics“ deals with type and design that is based on basic geometric forms like square, circle and triangle.

The first magazine section illuminates this topic by portraits, type essays and photo series. The categories Fontlabels, Fonts & Families, Fontnames Illustrated and Typolyrics present contemporary typefaces and designers. With contributions of Emil Kozak, Non-Format, Dan Reynolds, Florian Walzel, Ian Moore, Taro Hirano, Dirk Altenkirch and many more. The second magazine section offers interviews with Ed Benguiat, John Collins and Jan Middendorp, geometric works and projects (among others Hort, Benoit Lemoine, Labour, Mind Design) as well as the category Studienplatz that presents (final) works of students. The third magazine section connects the magazine with our weblog www.slanted.de. Here you can find discussions regarding entries and archives of fonts, books and magazines that have been presented on the weblog. Furthermore the book-/magazine shops „do you read me?!“ and „Soda“ show their current favorite publications.

 

 

Slanted Magazin #6 – Signs, Symbols, Ornaments

The sixth issue focalizes on “Signs, Symbols, Ornaments”. In our first magazine section we illuminate the topic by articles, visual essays, portraits of fontlabels and typedesigners, photographic sector as well as in our captions “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics”.

The focus of the current magazine is on signs, symbols and ornamental fonts. These topics are examined in a first section in articles, visual essays, in font or font label portraits as well as in the categories Fontnames Illustrated, Typolyrics or photo galleries. With contributions from Marian Bantjes (who also designed the cover this time), Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen, Typosition, Romibello and many others. The second section offers interviews (among others with Hubert Jocham, PetPunk, Kurt Weidemann, Raban Ruddigkeit and Jan Middendorp), a portrait of the Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig as well as (final) works by students and other typostories. The third part of the magazine provides a link to the internet blog www.slanted.de. Here you can find much-discussed entries, The Reader’s Response or the ideas of writings, books and magazines.

Slanted Magazin #5 – The Antiqua Boom Issue

The Antiqua Boom Issue Slanted #5 just arrived. Full 264 pages present everything relevant according to the topic of contemporary (serif-accented) Antiqua fonts.

After contributors, editors and visitors of the Frankfurt bookfair as well as from different in-house exhibitions of Océ got hold of Slanted, the precious copy can be bought in a limited edition of 200. Again Slanted is filled with interviews, Fontnames Illustrated, Typolyrics, Music Reviewed, photo series, student work. Additionally you get a queen, a little graphic-design studio in Sicily, Hans schumacher in the fanblog, an index of contents, imprint, unpaid advertisments, a lot of paper.

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Slanted Magazine #4 – The Grid Issue

The alleged cold and technical appearance of types base on matrix – topic of #4 – unfolds a special and wonderful individual allure.

Alessio Leonardi, Mark Simonson, Romibello & Yanone, and many other designer prove with its fonts that the equation matrix=technical cold is mostly a semantic connotation and illumine the technical roots. Illustrations, art activities, and photographic article show – on the interdisciplinary side – another dimension of this topic. Interesting interviews, a series of student projects and publications plus an attachment with extracts and information of the Slanted online blog complete the Slanted Magazine #4.