Pixel, Patch und Pattern – Typeknitting

In Pixel, Patch and Pattern, two worlds collide: the vibrant coolness of digital typography and the decelerating craft of knitting. Rüdiger Schlömer takes you step by step into the world of letter knitting. With sample alphabets, for which he translates fonts from well-known type designers, Schlömer lays the foundation for your typographic expression with needle and thread. Threads become lines and modules grid. Typographic knitting is not a new craft trend, but a graphic approach to a crafting technique that holds in most of us a slumber, from which it just wants to be awakened.

For digital designers, who also want to do something analogue—and knitwear in the spell of letters.
With writings by Andrea Tinnes, Zuzana Licko, Christian Schmalohr, Typotheque, Nouvelle Noire, Fidel Peugeot, Pieter van Rosmalen and many others who have never seen your typedesign so “knit table.”

With tricks and practical tips from more than ten years knitting experience and countless examples by Rüdiger Schlömer and his knitting supporters.

Total Armageddon—A Slanted Reader on Design

Total Armageddon is about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other thorny topics. A collection of both essays that are brand new, as well as the very best essays from past issues of Slanted Magazine, written by the most vital and vibrant global voices in writing on design and culture today such as Steven Heller, Piotr Rypson, Gerry Leonidas, Yoon Soo Lee, Kiyonori Muroga, and a host of others.

The book celebrates 15 years of independent publishing and brings together the who is who of authors and essays from 32 issues of Slanted Magazine. With financing this special publication on Kickstarter, we attempted to integrate our audience and followers to be a part of the creative process, a publication for our loyal friends and also new design enthusiasts alike.

Total Armageddon comes with essays by Can Altay, Eran Bacharach, Simon Baker, Emanuel Barbosa, Laure Boer, Gerda Breuer, Dr. Nadine Chahine, Doug Clouse, Olga Drenda, Jori Erdman, Marcus Farr, Kenneth FitzGerald, Charlotte von Fritschen, Amélie Gastaut, Martin Giesen, Jonathan M. Hansen, Steven Heller, Ilka Helmig, Will Hill, Lorena Howard-Sheridan, Natalia Ilyin, Mr. Keedy, Marianna Kellokoski, Matilda Kivelä, Toshiaki Koga, Iwona Kurz, Carolina Laudon, Yoon Soo Lee, Gerry Leonidas, Christine Lhowe, Tim Loffing, Mathieu Lommen, Ian Lynam, Dermot Mac Cormack, Georgios Matthiopoulos, Julia Meer, Silas Munro, Kiyonori Muroga, Randy Nakamura, Alexander Negrelli, Ingo Niermann, Panos Papanagiotou, Natassa Pappa, David Peacock, Louise Rouse, Piotr Rypson, Niki Sioki, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Thierry Somers, Sonja Steppan, Agata Szydłowska, Aleksander Tokarz, Alexander Torell, Angela Voulangas, Rene Wawrzkiewicz, Wolfgang Weingart, and Onur F. Yazıcıgil.

Awarded with DDC Award.

SPEED

SPEED provides an insightful and personal look into the subcultures scenes of of transportation in its various forms and beauty. Photographed by Horst Friedrichs between 1997 and 2018 and in collaboration with Creative Director Lars Harmsen the book showcases two decades of photography on these active groups. The photos are defined by the acute styling and attention to detail that seamlessly transport the reader to a world of cars, motorcycle, scooter, and bicycles.

Auslöser Magazine Issue 1

Auslöser Magazine is a bilingual (German and English) indie print magazine that focuses on the human stories behind the camera. The Auslöser Magazine Issue 1 (available since March 2019) features 4 long-form in-depth interviews with Friedl Kubelka, Yanina Boldyreva, Wolfgang Zurborn and Brian Finke. Also, there is a behind the scenes photo reportage at the famous publishing and print house STEIDL, and in detail a very special camera from the WestLicht camera museum.

Poster »Typen und Prototypen«

hinzkunst Poster designed by burkhardthauke, a multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2009 by Ralph Burkhardt and Daniel Hauke. The office has since been honored with numerous national and international awards.

Poster »Wye Oak«

Poster designed by burkhardthauke, a multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2009 by Ralph Burkhardt and Daniel Hauke. The office has since been honored with numerous national and international awards.

Throw “Holewang”

hinzkunst blankets are the perfect companion: at home on the couch, as a bedspread, as a tapestry …

Throw »Kiekerowski«

hinzkunst blankets are the perfect companion: at home on the couch, as a bedspread, as a tapestry …

Throw »Diefenbach«

hinzkunst blankets are the perfect companion: at home on the couch, as a bedspread, as a tapestry …

Throw »Millbrock«

hinzkunst blankets are the perfect companion: at home on the couch, as a bedspread, as a tapestry …

Cry Me A River

Everyone responds to the separation of his beloved in his own way. Some with fiery-vengeful anger and others drag themselves through a balmy everyday life, damp with gray-tinged tears.

In CRY ME A RIVER, a young couple moves to an unknown village for a while to look after the two dogs of an aunt. While they have to admit in their togetherness that their relationship is no longer working, one of the two dogs dies. They choose to part, though they continue to live under the same roof to look after the suffering dog left alone. The tears flow incessantly, they fill one and a half liters of plastic bottles, they create waterfalls and rivers.

She writes, dreams of success and above all she dreams of a perfect great love full of passion and eternal dedication. But even in her dream world, the supposedly ideal lover is kidnapped by reality. He hits the shelves of a supermarket, undecided in choosing the right cereal, the villager Paol. A night of alcohol and excess and the strange appearance of a giant shrimp that comes down from heaven like an archangel will help him see things from a different perspective.

Nika, Lotte, Mangold!

Nika loves metal, video games and action. Lotte is super sporty, super exact and super smart. Mangold likes to carry stuff around, has the best taste in clothes and makes the best ass bombs. The three live in the dachshund valley, where Karl runs out with nasty Berta, Becker’s fat cat feels misunderstood, a new tree house is built and wild snowball fights take place in winter.
Sometimes silly, sometimes thoughtful and always with a lot of humor, all kinds of ideas and zest for action meet the three friends NIKA, LOTTE and MANGOLD the big and small adventures in their lives. And Thomas Wellmann proves once again that he is not only a fantastic draftsman, but also a great storyteller.

Von Spatz

In the hills of Santa Monica lies the “Von Sparrow Rehab Center.” A mental hospital for artists and employees of the show business for the reassurance of nerves a bevy of psychiatrists, nurses and carers are available. Patients are required to dedicate themselves fully to their recovery and artistic work at this location. For this purpose, the hospital management provides atelier houses, an art supply, an art gallery and much more.

The clinic director Margarete von Spatz cares lovingly for her patients, including Walt Disney, who tries more or less in vain during his stay on various artworks. During the numerous afternoon activities such as Painting therapy, penguin service and kneading muses Walt about his life as an artist. How could the father of a mouse lose his mind?

Old Songs New Songs

Have you ever broken more than three plates in one day? Did her child belch in the service? The characters in OLD SONGS NEW SONGS are entangled in a web of prohibitions and blame, in which the photographing of hares in the months January to April is just as punishable as the appearance in public with a woman’s beard or unshaven legs.

In her detailed leporello, Rita Fürstenau brings together historical legal texts that, from today’s perspective, sometimes seem amusing, bizarre or simply gruesome. Although these laws are no longer effective, it becomes clear that the moral concepts and motivations that once validated their validity are still alive today.

Crawl Space

The students Daisy and Jeanne-Claude have a secret that allows them to escape their suburban life: in the dark corners of the cellar of Daisy’s house, behind the washing machine and a veil that separates the realities lies a hidden world. The rainbow-colored ecosystem is home to uncommon sensations and bizarre lifeformers, including both playful teapot creatures and less friendly creatures.

As the friends explore this strange reality, they discover that they too are shaped by their influence. But her friendship will soon be tested as Jeanne-Claude takes more and more of her school friends into the wondrous world and Daisy begins to wonder how real her new-found popularity at the school really is.

Lichtpause

LICHTPAUSE tells a day in Algiers, from early morning to night, and takes us on a long walk through the city. The voice of the narrator mingles with the voices of her friends, who comment, interpret, ask, answer. It is about the air, the traffic, the sea, the presence of violence, the money, the oil, the layers of pasts that are deposited in architecture. In the eyes of the Europeans on Algiers and the possibility of friendship, despite the echo of history and the current situation.

The book was created during two stays of the artist in Algiers, between September 2016 and April 2017. The work on text and drawings was above all a reason to listen, to observe, to find a look that is searching and does not necessarily mean to understand. A perspective that constantly questions itself, dedicates itself to fleetingness and attempts to grasp conditions that pass by and yet remain as holey memories. The result is an impressive travelogue in fragments, in poetic snapshots from constantly reassembling perspectives.

In Winter

It is winter and in a nameless forest high in the north, the paths of a cat and a hawk cross. The brief encounter will be disastrous for both. For death too, brushing softly through the cold night, joins them.

IN WINTER is reminiscent of a classic animal fable, but instead of a moral mediation occurs an atmospheric condensation that does not want to explain or teach, but aims to look at the inner life of the characters and their relationships with each other.

Zwischen den Zweigen zwitschert ein Waldhorn

With self-forged verses and colorful illustrations Julia Kluge embarks on a hunt for centuries-old hunting customs. Through the close connection of hunting with the development of culture and art since the Palaeolithic rock paintings each epoch finds its very own portrayal of hunting, between necessary food, mystical ritual and brutal pastime.

From the Middle Ages to the 18th century hunting in Central Europe was reserved for the nobility. This power centering culminated in elaborate hunt or par force hunts, which were a popular social event at the princely courts. Anyone who wanted to be valid had to prove his sovereignty as a good hunter. Splendidly decorated hunting books, describing the tips, tricks and technique of hunting in a bizarre and beautiful manner, bear witness to the hunt-dingy epochs. Many a prince wrote his own hunting book in which he praised his abilities over the green clover.

Based on these historical hunting books, Julia Kluge drew her own “weidmännische Ratgeber.” Her illustrations open up the view of a cultural asset hidden in the undergrowth. Not only does the content fit together like a collage, but the ink drawings printed in three special colors also complement and overlap. Fine structures are reminiscent of light that falls through dense treetops on the forest floor. Crisp verses pick up the once secret language of the pastoralists. The advice can be enjoyed with a wink and reflect the ambivalent relationship between the proud self-image of the hunters and the hunted animals again.

Röhner

P. leads a hermit life in an appropriate symbiosis with his busy neighbor. From the preparation of the coffee to the care of the house plants everything runs in time. With the unexpected arrival of Röhner —an old acquaintance —this rhythm changes.

While Röhner becomes a psychotic imposition, P. mentions various scenarios in the mind how he could get rid of the unloved guest. Only when Röhner begins to build an intimate relationship with the neighbor, frees P. from his thoughts and grasp action.

SPRING #15

Arbeit

We work to earn money. We work to realize ourselves to be successful and tell our parents about professions that they do not understand, that are modern and abstract. Nothing seems to change faster than our work and with it the working conditions. And yet, in many professions, women still earn less than men. At the same time, the discussions about the unconditional basic income are getting bigger and we ask ourselves: would I go about my job if I had financial security?

In the current issue of the illustration magazine SPRING, 13 draughtsmen in comics, illustrations and texts give very personal insights into the relationship between the world of work and identity. They tell about the balancing act between family and professional life, report on an animal factory and explore the history of work. At times, they make this really very real topic magical, then again it’s about exploitation, burnout and the rights of female workers. And we realize that in a society that trims itself to maximum work, another thing is just as important – to have a rest in between.

SPRING was founded in 2004 in Hamburg. Since then, every summer a new volume of the anthology is published, which combines the different works from the fields of comics, illustration and free drawing into one topic each. Since the beginning, the group consists exclusively of women and has become a solid and important network for female draughtsmen in Germany.

SPRING #13

The elephant in the room

India is a land of contrasts—and the rapid pace of globalization’s economic transformation is also affecting women’s position within Indian society. Social relationships change, the love marriage prevails, women make a career in business, politics or culture, the women’s movement is strong. Unfortunately, this is not the case everywhere in India, especially in the village communities, millions of women are still suffering from repression and violence, as we know from the media reports.

Eight German SPRING draftsmen met eight of their Indian colleagues at a writer’s residence near Bangalore and worked with them to compile the current issue of the magazine. In the comics and drawings they talk about life as a woman in different cultures, role models, open questions, sexuality, pride, violence and conflicts. The stories are entertaining and dramatic, personal and universal. Many of them revolve around an often ignored state that hardly anyone dares to address—“The elephant in the room,” as it is called in English.

nomad #6 — where to go?

The sixth issue of nomad focuses on the topic of coexistence. When different beings, concepts or entities live side by side, many an existence may be enabled to survive—or even thrive—by this closeness. When this sensitive network of intertwining lives is applied to a global society engaged in a constant process of reinvention, the question arises of how to develop the coexistence of technology and humanity in the future.

Japanese designer Oki Sato concentrates on special moments in everyday life by converting them into readily comprehensible simplicity. Internationally acclaimed design critic Alice Rawsthorn introduces today—design world to a far-sighted perspective for its future—dating from 1945.

New York author Douglas Rushkoff warns of surveillance capitalism and calls for greater humanism in our dealings with social media. Designer Pierre Charpin creates minimalism imbued with poetry and establishes new interrelations between objects.

Slanted Magazine #21: Cuba – The New Generation

Revolution or evolution? Fall or rise? Whorehouse or paradise? Cola or guarapo? Marlboro or Cohiba? Beans or lobster? Freedom or Guantanamo? Track suit or tie? Internet or carrier pigeon? Salsa or rap? Old-timer or Turbo? Museum or future-lab? Work or none? Hope or exile? Or a mix of all of these queries? It’s different than we think – much more complicated, deep and full of surprises. Reason enough to dedicate the 21st issue of Slanted Magazine to a young generation of Cuban designers and artists.

Slanted Magazine #21: CUBA – The New Generation illuminates contemporary design, photography, illustration and typography from Cuba with a special focus on Cuban poster art – most projects and artworks have never been shown outside Cuba

We are very happy to present numerous essays and reports: “Chico & Rita – A film by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal” as well as “Malecón Buena Vista” by Wolfgang Wick (DE), “Happiness” by Frank Wiedemann (DE), “Havana Today, Havana Cultura” by Randall Koral (FR), “Necessary Things” byå Ernesto Oroza (US), “Posters as Bridges” by Carlos Zamora (US), “Design on an Island” by Pedro Contreras Suárez (CU), “Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba” by Jonathan M. Hansen (US), “Equal among equals – The Emporer’s New Clothes” by Michael Schmidt (DE), “The Human Memory Machine” by Ian Lynam (JP) as well as “Cuba, mi amor” by Anna Berkenbusch (DE). Furthermore we talked to Hartwig Runge (Ingo Graf, DE), Javier Mariscal (ES), Mario MC (CU), Sachie Hernández Machín (CU), Sara Vega Miche (CU), Nelson Ponce Sánchez (CU), Raúl Valdés González (Raupa, CU), Michele Miyares Hollands (CU), Giselle Monzón Calero (CU), Roberto Ramos Mori (CU), Edel Rodríguez Molano (Mola, CU), Pepe Menéndez (CU), Eduardo Sarmiento (US), Daniel Díaz Milán (CU), Carlos Segura (US), Pablo A. Medina (US), Claudio Sotolongo (CU), Jorge González (DE) and Yoan Pablo Hernández (DE). In our interview format (10 x 10) 10 international designers gave answers to 10 questions about poster design – Andrew Lewis (CA), Anette Lenz (FR), Götz Gramlich (DE), Gunter Rambow (DE), Harmen Liemburg (NL), Jeff Kleinsmith (US), Kiko Farkas (GR), Niklaus Troxler (CH), Takashi Akiyama (JP) und Yossi Lemel (IL).

There are also some innovations to go along with the new issue:
a) The first issue of 2013 appears in a new format (16 x 24 cm) and bigger volume (320 (!) pages) and will be released 2 times a year in spring and autumn from now on.
b) Thanks to the preceded crowdfunding, this issue is completely bilingual (English/Spanish).
c) Slanted is now interactive: With the free Augmented Reality app Junaio you can experience lots of extras.
d) The additional booklet “Contemporary Typefaces” presents the most interesting typefaces from the last six months: Agmena (Linotype Originals), Aleksei (Fatype), Classic Grotesque (Monotype), Conspired Lovers (HaraldGeisler.com), Daphne (TypeManufactur), Gemma (Mota Italic), Irma Text Narrow (Typotheque), Lettera-Txt (Lineto.com), Lupa Sans Pro (Volcano Type/MyFonts), Macula (Bold Monday), MeM (26+), Paris Pro (Moshik Nadav Typography), Publico Banner (Commercial Type) and Worthe Numerals (House Industries).
e) Slanted #21 is the bachelor thesis of Falko Gerlinghoff and Markus Lange, students at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design.