‘signage/orientation’ by slanted issue no. 18 all images courtesy of slanted

german magazine slanted has released issue no. 18  of their publication which focuses on the topic of ‘signage / orientation’. featured are many extraordinary wayfinding and orientation systems with different levels of complexity and relevant typefaces. the journal presents a number of contributors, readable essays and reports such as the nycta and unimark international (paul shaw, new york city, us), typografie & architektur (tim loffing, dortmund), u8 (anton koovit, berlin), einer für alle, alle für einen – orientierung & identität am neuen campus der wirtschaftsuniversität wien (erwin k. bauer, vienna, at), imapping – visual orientation in personal knowledge space (heiko haller, karlsruhe) and leserlichkeit von schrift im öffentlichen raum – eine untersuchung (florian adler and sven neumann, berlin).

  slanted magazine: signage / orientation

letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and ageing readers (thomas bohm, leicester, uk), wo bin ich? – über schrift und öffentliche verkehrssysteme (indra kupferschmid, bonn, saarbrücken), die kunst der desorientierung (maurice van brast, weimar), das leid (frank wiedemann, berlin) sowie faith / void split (ian lynam, tokyo, jp). the photo collection departure/arrival (thanks to ken johnston, historical corbis ny) shows stars, such as the recently deceased bee gee robin gibb, in airports. naturally, in the context of the wayfinding system.

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

the airport series by terence chang (san francisco, us) shows the take-off and landing distances traveled by planes, how they are seldom seen.     new in slanted is the format 10×10. 10 agencies/designers out of germany, austria, and switzerland – all experts in orientation systems – with frank abele (büro für gestaltung wangler & abele, munich), erwin k. bauer (bauer – konzept & gestaltung, vienna, at), ruedi baur (intégral, zurich, ch), gourdin & müller (leipzig, hamburg), ingeborg kumpfmüller (vienna, at), sascha lobe (l2m3, stuttgart), stefan nowak (nowakteufelknyrim, düsseldorf), joachim sauter (art+com, berlin), andreas uebele (büro uebele, stuttgart) and atelier weidner händle (stuttgart).

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

slanted magazine: signage / orientation

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