Beat That If You Can! Slanted #12

The Woman Issue

Women, Typography, Graphic Design is a stage for extraordinary and intelligent projects by women. This is not a very special thing. For our focus on visual culture its all the same whether a (typo-) graphic work has been realized by a female or a male being. But its undeniable and strange that still only very few women are visible in graphic design (more) and typography (less). We want to contribute to more visibility for at least some female type and graphic designers design by women is at least just as well. Beat That If You Can! With great pleasure we present the work of

• Ariane Spanier (Berlin)
• Julia Born (Amsterdam)
• Verena Gerlach (Berlin),

photographic essays with

• Kalpesh Lathigra (dmbmedia / London)

Female Marines from the archives of the U.S. Marine Corps as well as contemporary typefaces, illustrations and graphic projects by female designers.

Type essays by

• Laure Boer (Berlin)
• Gerda Breuer/Julia Meer (Wuppertal)

Numerous interviews with

• Verena Gerlach (Berlin),
• Ariane Spanier (Berlin,
• Nadine Chahine (Bad Homburg),
• Veronika Burian (Prag),
• Laura Worthington (Washington),
• Kapitza (London),
• Geneviève Gauckler (Paris),
• Esen Karol (Istanbul),
• Akiko Kanna (Tokyo)
• Susanne Baer (Tokyo)
• Ian Lynam (Tokyo)