Coexisting means order. To create an aesthetic and orderly future we must create parallel spaces and keep distances which respect the others yet still make us able to act. Design is a tool to show graphic elements coexist and live in a peacefully and calm correlation. It is now more important than ever to translate this hereby cited vocabulary in our daily lives to create an aesthetic future.

COEXIST—to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time, or in the same place. The first time in our lives the world is changing fundamentally. We need to rethink what all this is about. Higher, faster, and further at the expense of others cannot point the way to the future. We need to question ourselves, how we want to coexist, show consideration, and take a step back.

In summer 2020 Slanted initiated a global call for submissions questioning topics such as climate change, political power, human rights, freedom of speech, wars, and many other global issues.

More than 450 designers, illustrators, photographers, writers and artists from all over the world contributed to this extra thick issue (almost 100 pages extra—352 instead of 256)