The fifth issue of the German Slanted magazine is finally for sale, and you'd best hurray and place your order today; as far as I know, there are less than 200 copies left.
Slanted.de is a blog run by a nest of collective graphic design energy eminating from the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe. A few years ago, they began publishing an eponymous magazine, which has already been covered on TypeOff. here, here, here, and here. The printed Slanted issues are must-reads, and like any self-respective euro graphic designer mags, must-looks. Slanted's editors continue to push forward a combination of typography+illustration that I can't say I always understand, but I certainly always enjoy. It is an honor for me to be able to contribute to this magazine in the small ways that I can.
The newest issue is entitled the antiqua boom issue, which requires a bit of explanation. While many typography words are the same in German and English, the term for serif typeface is traditionally not among them. We English-speakers tend to refer to them by a number of monikers, serif, roman, etc. In German, they are typically called Antiqua typefaces, as opposed to sans serifs, blackletters, etc. But even with sans serif there is some confusion
