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Issue 48 of Slanted Magazine explores Seoul’s contemporary creative scene, highlighting the diversity and experimental spirit of graphic design, typography, illustration, and visual culture in South Korea.

Featuring work by designers, artists, and studios from Seoul and beyond, the issue brings together innovative typographic projects, visual identities, editorial design, and experimental approaches to communication. Essays and interviews examine the cultural forces shaping the city’s creative landscape, from K-pop and fashion to technology, architecture, and urban life.

A special feature presents portraits of 16 studios and creatives visited by the Slanted team, including 6699Press, AABB, bokdo, Bowyer, Choong-geun Yoon, Chris Ro, Daeki and Jun, DDBBMM, Everyday Practice, Hezin O, Ordinary People, Paika, Rojotype, Sparks Edition, Major Minority, and WORKS. Additional interviews and essays offer perspectives on the people, practices, and ideas shaping contemporary Korean design. Draw Down’s essay, “The Work Between,” explores the relationships, collaborations, and informal networks that shape Seoul’s graphic design community, examining how commissioned work, independent publishing, teaching, and cultural exchange intersect and is based on conversations with designers including Sulki & Min, Chris Ro, Chris Hamamoto, Ju Hyun Kang of Occupy the City, and Chris Cote. 

Edited by Lars Harmsen, Franziska Müller, and Julia Kahl

Designed by Franziska Müller / Slanted Publishers

Published by Slanted Publishers, 2026
Text in English

Softcover with flaps, Swiss binding with exposed thread stitching, 224 pages, full-color offset printing with spot colors, 6.3 × 9.45 inches

ISBN: 978-3-69-202011-2