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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

The publication is based in California and covers graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, interactive design and typography. Founded in 1953 by Okumura Yukimasa, it's a bilingual publication written in Japanese, but many of its texts also appear in English. It's available in both print and digital editions.

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Cadbury's campaign claims to reveal our personality via our eating choices

Creative Boom

To us, it doesn't feel like long since it appeared on our TV screens, but apparently, it was a full 20 years ago, in 2004. It's a classic advertising approach: telling people that they'll be thought of as fun, original and spontaneous if they, er, buy specific mass-market products. Well, that's us told. Isn't it ironic?

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Sale Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field Armstrong, Helen (Author) English (Publication Language) 151 Pages – 03/11/2009 (Publication Date) – Princeton Architectural Press (Publisher) −$22.95 $2.00 He examines why some products confuse users while others feel intuitively easy to operate.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

Here at Azure, the annual tradition entails taking stock of the last 12 months of design, including public spaces , interiors , products , as well as residential and commercial architecture. In 2014, photographer Milos Bicanski revisited a series of venues constructed for the 2004 edition of the Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

It was finally launched to the public in March 2021. The font was created by Vectro Type , a typeface design studio based in Portland, Oregon, that offers retail fonts, bespoke typeface design, and font production services. It's among the premium typefaces offered by Weltkern , a Swiss foundry established in 2013.

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Barry from Eastenders as you’ve never seen him before

Creative Review

Towards the end of last year, director Yousef sat down with the team at production company Prettybird to discuss who to cast in the music video for Piero Pirupa’s new track. Production company: Prettybird. Fast forward to three months later, and we have Barry from Eastenders gracing our screens once more.

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Becoming type-sensitive with the psychology of fonts

UX Collective

Print publications in general also tend to use serif fonts due to perceived (more enjoyable) readability and more refined aesthetics. Based on a 2018 study , handwritten fonts increase consumers’ attachment to products as they create a sense of human presence. 2004, September). M., & Vaughan, E. Cognition, 118(1), 111–115.

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