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Barnett Freedman “saw no difference between commercial work and fine art”

Design Week

This sparked a trend; he went onto design jackets for Oliver Twist, Wuthering Heights, War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Those final two are recognised as some of the finest examples of 20th century book design. But he also studied portraiture and painting at the Royal College of Arts, lending his design work a fine art quality.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

Buy the book. Logo Modernism (Design) by Jens Muller. Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many. Less well known, but no less fascinating, is the distillation of modernism in graphic design. Buy the book. Buy the book. Logotype by Michael Evamy.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

Through projects and case studies of pioneering inclusive designers, who have often been influenced by their own experiences of exclusion, Holmes shows how inclusion can create innovation and allow design and designers to grow. Crucial reading for the future of design. Buy the book. Buy the book.