2025 was an excellent year for graphic design publishing. Here, we’ll run you through some memorable titles from an international set of publishers including Masala Noir, Set Margins’, Sorry Press, Permanent Files, and Slanted.
Radical Media Archive is a visual essay from the research archives of Ramdane Touhami and Émile Shahidi. They weave a visual history of graphic design in the counter-cultural movements of the 60s-80s, with a remit spanning a global movement for liberation to ask: how might a contemporary graphic design practice respond to radical movements today?
New New Typography: Adventures in Transborder Typography edited by Matter Of.
Emerging 100 years after the declaration of the ‘new typography’ of Central Europe, New New Typography is a speculative work that imagines an impossible overview of a ‘new new’ typography. A plurality of contributors suggest a reorientation of the history of typography, bringing to the surface those practices that have been marginalised, forgotten, and erased.
Conspiratorial Design: Information design for the bigger picture by Carlo Bramanti.
Information design collides with the world of conspiracy theories. Vertiginous diagrams sprawl across the pages connecting our era of information overload with the extreme complexity of conspiratorial communications. Bramanti has taken information design to its logical conclusion.
Graphic Languages by Oliver Hausle
A handbook for designers that gathers an overview of the world's most innovative writing systems. Hausle collaborates with leading type designers to produce a visually engaging and rigorous resource for students and professionals alike.
Continuing its exploration of global design practices, Slanted visits Cairo’s design community. Featuring independent designers, artists, agencies, and collaborative projects, we gain an insight into the vibrant design scene of the Egyptian capital. Slanted produces beautiful volumes, and this is no different, with swiss binding and a magenta foiled cover.
Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 by Ian Lynam
Design historian Ian Lynam has surveyed the evolution of graphic design through the cultural shifts brought on by the country’s shifting attitudes towards the West, gender, imperialism, commercialism, sexuality, and aesthetics.
No round-up of design publishing can be considered complete without the inclusion of MacGuffin Magazine, a design magazine exploring our relationships to everyday objects. 2025 saw the release of Issue 15: The Stitch, on the myriad design practices making use of the act of sewing.
by Will Aghoghogbe