Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. To help, I've compiled this list of the 37 best design books covering various specialities – from typography and layout to UX and web design.

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Thinking Design

APRIL 11, 2018

From Copyright Alliance, original post can be found here: copyrightalliance.org/ca_post/book-designer-secondari/ This week we would like you to meet Creative Director and Book Designer Linda Secondari. What was the inspiration behind becoming a Creative Director and Book Designer? I iterate a lot.

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Book Design Client Arts and Crafts Fine Art 40

Tuts Plus

JULY 23, 2020

What You'll Be Creating In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to make a fairy-tale book cover with a vintage-inspired look. Vintage-style covers are big news in publishing right now, and clothbound covers are enjoying a well-deserved resurgence. How Should I Plan My Cover Design? Set the Font to Adorabelle Regular, Size 120 pt.

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Fonts in Use

APRIL 28, 2023

He worked on the book while serving as professor of graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, or School of Applied Arts, a position he held from 1957 to 1960. It was first published in 1961 by Verlag Arthur Niggli , Teufen AR, Switzerland. Alec Tiranti published it in the United Kingdom. The Print Arkive.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2023

Books on logo design cover foundational principles, case studies of iconic logos, creative processes, and technical skills needed. Both budding designers and experienced creatives can use these resources to master shape, colour, typography, and composition. Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R.

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Arts and Crafts Publication Brand Branding 94

Tuts Plus

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What does it take for a font to change the world? A testament to the power of type, here you’ll find fonts that have the power to win landslide elections and build empires, as well as helping billions of people reach their destinations every day. . Looking for fonts similar to the ones in our edit? Melody Nieves. 20 Mar 2017.

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Fonts Internet and Software Development Arts and Crafts Typography 75

Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Each idea, arranged broadly in chronological order, is illustrated with exemplary images and context, ranging from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs) to stylistic (loud typography and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks) and methods (paper cut-outs, pixelation). −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

After falling in love with designing typefaces on her degree, Alessia Mazzarella embarked on a Master’s in Typeface Design where she met her partner Vaibhav Singh and the rest, as they say, is history. The pair founded Typeland , a design studio specialising in typeface design. What’s his design background?

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 20, 2023

Along with a coherent plot point and direction to take the book, you need to keep it complex and straightforward enough to encapsulate your reader through the text in your manuscript. Several other factors relate to keeping your book relevant within your reading and writing community. Make the title stand out.

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Shillington

AUGUST 27, 2020

Annette Dennis is a Shillington teacher in Melbourne, a graphic designer and art director who specialises in branding, visual identity and editorial design. A few years ago I moved from London to Dallas and I was unsure of what the job market would be like, so I decided to start making art books.

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Book Design Arts and Crafts Publishing Publishing 98

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sale Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) Krug, Steve (Author) English (Publication Language) 216 Pages – 12/24/2013 (Publication Date) – New Riders (Publisher) −$11.41 $33.59 The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0:

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Web Design Web Design Publication Patterns 68

Fonts in Use

MARCH 16, 2019

Known as the Bolted Book because of its signature binding using two industrial bolts, Depero Futurista was conceived as a showcase and “portable museum” for the work of Italian Futurist artist Fortunato Depero (1892–1960). Today it’s recognized as the first modern-day artist’s book.

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Artist Fonts Print Advertising 36

Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Buy the book. Typographic Systems of Design by Kimberley Elam. Typography is nothing if not a complex beast, tasking the designer to balance so many competing factors including hierarchy, order of reading, legibility and contrast, to name but a few. Buy the book. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 22, 2023

Fundamental artistic movements like the Swiss Style of the 1950s and punk rock-inspired grunge typography of the 1990s revealed graphic design's power to challenge creative norms and capture the prevailing zeitgeist. Post World War II, graphic design mirrored profound societal shifts.

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Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Internet and Software Development 83

UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Within the construct of the gender binary, femininity in design is the opposite. Expressive typography, delicate forms, and toned color schemes are typically perceived as feminine. Due to the inherently queer nature of the project, I was highly experimental with the combinations of imagery, illustration, typography, and layout.

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Color Fashion Production Color Schemes 89

UX Collective

MARCH 14, 2022

App icon design, subconscious, and typography… WTF? This subconscious attraction toward an app can happen for many reasons, and the design of the icon is a large part of that. Because smartphones are interesting and newish-medium for this type of design it creates a new set of dynamics that need to be understood.

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Color Brand Branding Typography 106

Fonts in Use

APRIL 17, 2019

Conceived and designed by Pierre Pané-Farré , the book won the Gold Medal in the competition Best Book Design from all over the World and also was awarded at the Walter Tiemann Prize 2018. For the book typography, Pané-Farré combined three typefaces. Photo: Florian Hardwig.

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Print Book Design Printmaking Color 28

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 10, 2024

InDesign vs Illustrator: Which Design Software Should You Use? In graphic design and publishing, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator are two of the most popular software tools. Released in 1999, InDesign built upon Adobe's previous publishing software, PageMaker, to become their next-generation publishing solution.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The zine/self-help manual/comic book/manifesto/survival guide covers theory, history, work and interviews to create this absolutely essential read. Buy the book. The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible.

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