Slanted - Signs, Symbols, Ornaments¶
240 words on Magazines
A new issue of Slanted magazine was published recently. Again it feels like a really nice magazine, has cool cover art, some interesting articles and a bunch of articles which amount to poorly written navel-gazing.
Stuff I liked in the magazine were:
- The work for G2 by Marian Bantjes
- Announcing an upcoming cuneiform font by the people at decodeunicode. Yeah, not so useful for most people but it’s a nice project an good to have at least one font that doesn’t look like crap even for the most exotic glyphs.
- Cool collection of ‘no dogs here’ signs - albeit a rather small one that’s easily outdone by flickring around
- A nice collection of graphics ‘Fontnames Illustrated’
- Cool symbol font ‘TheAntiqua Ornaments’ by Elena Albertoni
- Nice ‘organic’ pattern dingbats Gaia by Ricardo Esteves Gomes
- The way chapter title pages are made with photos related to the text in the background.
Some of the other articles are less convincing and some could have done with proof reading. Reviewing Frutiger’s Der Mensch und seine Zeichen seems obvious for a magazine on symbols and is always a good thing to do.
Just as with the previous issue I found the magazine’s pricing somewhat ‘unconventional’ or, to use my own word, creepy. It must be one of the very few magazines that lists a price without VAT on its cover and charges something other than the cover price when sold at amazon.
