Slanted Publishers

09/01/2026

We’re very excited to share that 45 Symbols—Clay to Code is currently in production and approaching its final stages!

Edited by Olivier Arcioli, Pascal Glissmann, and Andreas Henrich, the book explores how research findings, personal experiences, and complex ideas can be translated into concise visual identities. Inspired by one of the most enigmatic objects in media history—the 3,700-year-old, still undeciphered Phaistos Disc with its 45 engraved symbols—the publication invites readers to discover how contemporary designers and artists develop systematic visual languages.

Over more than a decade, The Phaistos Project–Forty-five Symbols has evolved into an international design seminar series and a global community shaped by open calls, workshops, exhibitions, and risograph publications. The present volume brings together over 2,000 symbols, ranging from personal narratives to global themes, and documents collective experimentation, bold approaches, and intercultural dialogue. More than a finished archive, the book reflects an ongoing process of research and exchange.

Great care has been taken in the production of the book. 45 Symbols—Clay to Code is offset printed by Stober Medien and finished with thread-stitching by Buchbinderei Spinner, underlining the project’s commitment to material quality, craftsmanship, and longevity.

Preorder your copy now to make sure you have 45 Symbols—Clay to Code in your hands as soon as it is published.

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We’re very excited to share that 45 Symbols—Clay to Code is currently in production and...

09/01/2026

45 Symbols—Clay to Code edited by Olivier Arcioli, Pascal Glissmann, and Andreas Henrich — is currently in production and coming soon 🚀 Inspired by the 3,700-year-old, still undeciphered Phaistos Disc, the book explores how research, personal experience, and complex ideas can be translated into a concise visual language. Bringing together over 2,000 symbols from a decade-long, international design project, it forms a living archive of collective experimentation.

Offset printed by and finished with thread-stitching

Preorder now — shipping upon publication. Link in bio.

02/01/2026

Happy new year from all of us, even from our cat 😎🐈‍⬛

19/12/2025

🎄 Warehouse Sale & Season’s Greetings 📚 Up to 65% off selected publications — plus a look back at our year → https://mailchi.mp/slanted/christmas-sale-seasons-greetings

19/12/2025

From December 20th, we’ll be taking our annual winter break to recharge and start the new year full of fresh energy. We’ll be back on January 7th, 2026.

Our Warehouse Sale starts today! 🎉 Selected books, magazines & special editions from €5 — online only, while stocks last. First come, first served! Sale runs until January 6th, 2026: slanted.de/sale ✨

Thank you to our readers, partners, collaborators, contributors & friends for an incredible 2025. With new releases, awards, reprints, a growing team, and so many inspiring encounters at fairs, events & our Open House — this year has meant a lot to us. Independent publishing thrives because of people like you. ❤️

See more highlights from our year on the online platform: slanted.de/slanted-winter-break-2025-2026

✨ Happy Holidays!
Your Slanted Team

18/12/2025

Linguaphile is a new independent magazine exploring the human side of language—not through grammar or theory but through people, place, memory, and design. Instead of focusing on dominant global languages, the publication looks at minoritized languages and speakers. It asks what happens when a way of speaking, along with the cultural knowledge it carries, is pushed to the margins.
Issue 1, Everything Left Unsaid, gathers perspectives from across Asia: stories of languages with only a few speakers left, families navigating life in places where their native language is misunderstood or unwelcome, and communities whose cultural practices are disappearing along with the words that describe them. Among many other pieces, readers will find an essay by Deaf activist Makiko Yamamoto on how Japanese Sign Language reshaped her life; a report from Okinawa that questions what counts as a “language” when identity and politics collide; and a reflection by graphic designer Raeda Sarwar on Bangla typography as a way of reconnecting with diasporic identity.
The issue moves between reportage, personal narrative, and visual storytelling, with contributions from linguists, designers, translators, photographers, and third-culture kids who have spent their lives across languages.
Issue 1 invites readers to reflect, to listen and watch, and to rediscover language as a human practice: fragile, embodied, and deeply connected to emotion, environment, and everyday life.

Linguaphile Issue 1: Everything Left Unsaid

Publisher: Kuina Books
Publication Date: December 2025
Editors: Mābu Nauendorff, Alice Polaschek, Danielle Absin, Shana Ryan
Photography: Higa Raito, Severin Jakob, Vishan Singh, Stefan Dotter, Claudia Fährenkemper
Design: Mābu Nauendorff, Michelle Körner
Format: 21 × 28 cm
Volume: 104 pages
Binding: Softcover (8-page cover), perfect bound; includes a thread-stitched Japanese translation booklet for all copies distributed in Japan
Printing: Full-colour offset printing by Druckerei Kettler
Paper: Holmen TRND Classic; Pergraphica Classic Rough
Languages: English (with bilingual sections in Japanese and Bangla); separate Japanese translation booklet available
ISBN: 978-3-00-084992-3
Price: 22 €

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Linguaphile is a new independent magazine exploring the human side of language— through people, place, memory, and design.

18/12/2025

🎄No Christmas gift yet?

Sometimes the simple gifts mean the most.
A Slanted Gift Card is the perfect last-minute present for anyone who loves design. Choose an amount, add a personal note, and we deliver it instantly to their inbox or to your own email to print and give by hand✨

Orders your here: slanted.de/products/gift-card/

16/12/2025

On December 15th, 2025, the competition 100 Beste Plakate 25 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz (100 Best Posters 25 Germany Austria Switzerland) kicks off. All details will be published on their website, via newsletter, and on their Instagram. The postal delivery of information, card with QR code lining to the call for entries, to those registered in the postal mailing list has been completed.

The selection of the 100 Beste Plakate 25 will once again be handled by an internationally renowned jury, this year comprising Enrico Bravi (A-Wien), Malte Martin (F-Paris), Sascia Reibel (D-Berlin), Sven Tillack (D-Stuttgart) and Annik Troxler (CH-Riehen bei Basel).

The process remains the same as in previous years: eligible to submit are designers, clients, and printers from the three countries, with posters created in 2025 across all themes, formats, and printing techniques. Participation is subject to a fee (starting at €50, scaled by the number of posters submitted), with a 50% discount available for students and members of the 100 Beste Plakate association.

The visual identity for the new competition, including the yearbook (set to be published in June 2026 by Slanted Publishers), is being designed by Ira Ivanova und Lou Hillereau (D-Berlin).

Starting in Berlin with opening on June 11th, 2026, 100 Beste Plakate 25 will go on a touring exhibition beginning mid-next year across the three countries, Korea, and additional locations.

Further information here:

On December 15th, 2025, the competition “100 Beste Plakate 24 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz” kicks off once again.