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SlantedMONDAINE Doppio Watches: One typographic system, and the language of double MONDAINE, the brand that has turned the iconic design of the Official Swiss Railways Station Clock into a world-renowned timeless watch and clock collection, expands its Doppio collection with the…

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SlantedRecap: DesignThinkers 2026 Over 2,000 designers were “Out of Office” at DesignThinkers , Canada’s premier graphic design conference, this October 20–21 in Toronto.

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SlantedConference on Expanded Design The phrase is based on the “Law of the Instrument” theory, which states: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail,” and is attributed to the…

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SlantedWHAT HAPPENED IN THE CHURCH STAYS IN THE CHURCH In a book of confessions, KesselsKramer reveals the do’s and, perhaps even more, don’ts of building a creative culture in their new era.

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SlantedDesign Policy Day How can design shape democracy, transform public services, and create more sustainable cities? From November 11 to 14, 2026, the Design Policy Days will bring together international designers…

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SlantedWerkschau Mannheim 2026 Fresh ideas, bold concepts, and pure creative firepower: From November 6 to 8, 2026, the Faculty of Design at TH Mannheim brings the Alte Feuerwache to a full blaze with its annual Werkschau .

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SlantedSuitcase Type Foundry Suitcase Type Foundry has launched a new website—a project that goes beyond a redesign and marks a new chapter for the foundry.

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SlantedSlanted Magazine #48—Seoul Slanted Magazine #48—Seoul offers a vivid insight into South Korea’s contemporary creative scene, exploring everything from graphic design, typography, and visual communication to architecture…

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SlantedADC Digital Conference The ADC Digital Conference is the ADC’s laboratory for what’s next in the creative industries — a space where emerging technologies, creativity and business converge, and where the future of creative…

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo