Slanted, Issue 45 – Sex

Slanted started with a Weblog in 2004. The first magazine issue was published 2005.
Slanted is the first German magazine devoted to typography. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, and has been designed to complement the highly- frequented internet blog at www.slanted.de.

The main focus of Slanted is typography found within design, illustration and photography, but a variety of other topics — related both directly and indirectly to the field — are also addressed. The magazine contains expertise analyses and reports, as well as information on typographic experimentation, portraits and interviews with today’s superstars and underground players on the international scene of typography and design. All of this is presented alongside spectacular, first-class graphics and thought-provoking photography.

In this issue:

Slanted Magazine 45: Sex was produced in collaboration with the Munich-based Archive Artist Publications (AAP). The archive contains over 89,988 rare zines, booklets, posters, and other printed matter that Hubert Kretschmer has collected since the 1980s. The magazine presents a selection of artistic positions that deal with body politics, self-image, and identity from a contemporary and historical perspective. In the creation of visual narratives, marginalized bodies – non-binary, queer, disabled, racialized – are often underrepresented or depicted in a symbolic way. With provocative images and diverse stories, ‘Slanted Magazine’ opens the door to a deeper, multi-faceted dialogue about bodies and belonging.