Slanted Experimental Type 3.0 maps the outer edges of contemporary typography, tracing what happens when designers abandon convention and treat accident, imprecision, and unconventional systems as legitimate creative methods.
About This Book
The third instalment in Slanted Publishers' ongoing experimental typography series, this edition was developed in collaboration with students from Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts under the direction of Prof. Lars Harmsen and Andreas Ruhe. Its conceptual anchor is the idea of borders — how arbitrarily drawn lines create tension in geography and politics, and what it means to apply that same critical lens to graphic design and type. The result is a survey of typefaces born from distinct systems and concepts: AI-generated letterforms, variable fonts, and processes that foreground error and the unexpected. Essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of experimental typography and critical design practice.
Key Features
- 304 pages of student-led experimental typeface projects and process-driven typographic research
- Edited by Andreas Ruhe, with contributions from students of Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Lars Harmsen
- Published by Slanted Publishers, ISBN 9783948440817
What You'll Discover
- How the politics of borders — geographic, ethnic, historical — can be transposed into a framework for experimental typographic thinking
- Typefaces generated through AI processes and variable font technology, pushing the definition of authorship in type design
- Design strategies that treat accidents and imprecision not as failures but as generative forces within the creative process
- The tension between designers operating within a consumer-driven system and their capacity to cross disciplinary and conceptual boundaries
About the Author
Andreas Ruhe is the editor of this volume, working alongside Prof. Lars Harmsen and students from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund. Lars Harmsen is a co-editor and director of the student collaboration that produced this third edition in the Slanted Experimental Type series.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 16 x 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783948440817
- Publisher: Slanted Publishers
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Graphic designers, type designers, and design students interested in experimental typography, AI-generated letterforms, and critical approaches to the design process.