In the yearbook, the winning posters of the competition 100 Beste Plakate 24 are presented in large-format images with detailed credits, including brief descriptions of content aspects and the context of their creation. This is supplemented with a contact register of all designers and listings of clients and printing companies. The introduction of the jury, featuring their own works and statements about the selection process, along with forewords from the association president and the jury chair, completes the publication.

Additionally, an essay or interview contribution addresses related topics in current poster design, development trends, and analyzes. The current book concept takes the actual highlight at the end for the designers involved in the winning posters as its basis: the certificates awarded by the organizer as an honorary tribute give rise to ironic questioning on the borderline between seriousness and benevolent mockery.

Tristesse from Basel, a trio of two graphic designers and a filmmaker / photographer, came up with the idea so that the ensemble of layout, typography and photography could be produced entirely in-house. The 100 best posters as the leading actors on a stage—rich in elements that are true to the style of the Swiss studio: fresh and cheeky.

The poster book 100 Beste Plakate 24—an inspiring showcase of the cutting edge of contemporary graphic design from the German-speaking world!

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor: 100 beste Plakate e.V., Fons Hickmann
Design: Tristesse
Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Release: June 2025
Format: 17 × 24 cm
Volume: 256 pages
Language: German, English
Printer: Stober Medien
Bookbinding: Softcover with flaps, thread-stitching, Buchbinderei Spinner
Workmanship: full color offset printing, hot-foil embossing
ISBN: 978-3-948440-84-8
Price: € 35.–

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Graphic Languages is an impressive visual journey through the world’s most influential writing systems—edited by Oliver Häusle in collaboration with leading international type designers and type experts. The focus is on the unique DNA of each typeface: its distinctive forms, its cultural significance and its inexhaustible power as a cornerstone of human communication. With its focus on design, the publication is both an inspiring introduction to the diversity of global writing systems and a comprehensive handbook for designers, from students to experienced professionals.

Graphic Languages invites you to delve deeper into the fascinating history, meaning, and creative potential of type systems. And it makes it clear that type not only communicates—it connects.

A visual guide to the following Writing Systems: Adlam, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Chinese (Hanzi), Cyrilic, Devanagari, Ge’ez, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji), Kannada, Khmer, Latin, Malayalam, N’Ko, Odia, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tifinagh

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor & Design: Oliver Häusle
Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Release: May 2025
Format: 16.5 × 23 cm
Volume: 464 pages
Language: English
Printer: Printmedia Solutions, Germany
Workmanship: Softcover with thread-stitching, Offset printing
Paper: Enviro Natur (Cover), Holmen TRND 2.0 (Paper Inside)
ISBN: 978-3-948440-88-6
Price: € 30.–

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Collection of Texts and Other Artefacts

Tender Digitality introduces an aesthetically oriented concept that intricately intertwines binary systems in a complex manner, setting them in motion. The concept, which is developed at the Zurich University of the Arts, responds to the human desire for sensuality, interpersonal connection, intuition, and well-being in digital environments. It explores ways to (re)transmit these experiences into the analog world of a book, developing its own distinct vocabularies.

Readers are guided through the various perspectives of this kaleidoscope, encouraging them to delve into different play-forms of “tender digitality” and develop their own approach. Assuming the role of researchers, they discover phenomena of extraordinary beauty or bizarreness within the spectrum spanning analogue and digital, social, and technological domains. Through exploration, learning, and the cultivation of “tender digitality,” readers can envision their own version of a community where individuals and artificial intelligences, avatars and cyborgs, humans and computers navigate digital landscapes with agency, intuition, and sensitivity.

With contributions by Charlotte Axelsson, Oliver Bendel, Dana Blume, Marisa Burn, Alexander Damianisch, Léa Ermuth, Hannah Eßler, Barbara Getto, Leoni Hof, Marcial Koch, Mela Kocher, Friederike Lampert, Gunter Lösel, Francis Müller, Marie-France Rafael, Oliver Ruf, Sascha Schneider, and Grit Wolany.

Tender Digitality

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Editor: Charlotte Axelsson
Authors: Charlotte Axelsson, Oliver Bendel, Dana Blume, Marisa Burn, Alexander Damianisch, Léa Ermuth, Hannah Eßler, Barbara Getto, Leoni Hof, Marcial Koch, Mela Kocher, Friederike Lampert, Gunter Lösel, Francis Müller, Marie-France Rafael, Oliver Ruf, Sascha Schneider, Grit Wolany
Design: Slanted Publishers
Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl
Production Management: Julia Kahl
Proofreading and translation: Miha Tavčar, scriptophil 
Release: February 2024
Format: 12 × 19 cm
Volume: 112 pages
Language: English
Printer: NINO Druck, Germany
Workmanship: Hardcover, thread-stitching, full-color, metallic iridescent cover material
Paper: Majestic Chameleon light blue, 120 gsm (Cover) / Juwel Offset, 120 gsm (Inside)
ISBN 978-3-948440-69-5
Price: €26.–

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