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, product design, and digital media.

Featuring experimental approaches, innovative typography, and compelling visual storytelling, the issue brings together outstanding work by designers, illustrators, and artists from Seoul, across South Korea, and beyond. Many contributions were submitted through the international Call for Entries, reflecting the diversity and creative energy of the scene. Essays and articles explore cultural influences such as K-pop, fashion, technology, and urban life.

A special highlight is a series of portraits featuring 16 studios and creatives visited by the Slanted team: 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. Complementing the portraits, video interviews with the same creatives will be released gradually over the coming weeks, offering deeper insights into their work, ideas, and inspirations. Additional 10 × 10 interviews and essays further explore Seoul’s creative ecosystem.

To mark the release, Slanted has collaborated with nuuna by brandbook on a limited-edition notebook, available exclusively in the Slanted Shop.

Publisher: Slanted Publishers

Editors: Lars Harmsen (editor-in-chief), Franziska Müller (co-editor), Julia Kahl (managing editor)

Design: Franziska Müller, Slanted Publishers

Release: October 2026

Volume: 224 pages

Format: 16 × 24 cm

Language: English

Printing Inside: full color offset printing with spot colors by printmedia experts

Cover: offset printing with spot colors

Bookbinding: Swiss brochure with flaps, open thread stitching

ISBN: 978-3-69202-011-2

ISSN: 1867-6510

Price: €24.– (DE)