Creative Review

JUNE 21, 2021

Born in 1928, Dutch designer Wim Crouwel became a major figure in contemporary graphic design during the 20th century, with his influence extending well beyond borders of the Netherlands. Over a decade on, the classic title has been reissued by French publisher Éditions B42.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills Hey there, fellow UX enthusiasts and aspiring design wizards! Are you ready to level up your user experience game and advance your design skills ? We've meticulously curated a list of the five best UX books guaranteed to propel your design skills to new dimensions.

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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. What You Will Learn in This Fairy-Tale Book Cover Design Tutorial.

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Currently living in Brussels, Korean book designer and illustrator Jinhee Han’s love of design was first sparked when working for an independent bookshop in Seoul called The Book Society. “That was the first time I touched art books and truly appreciated the beauty of books,” Han says.

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Inspiration Feed

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you’re a graphic designer or typographer, intimate understanding of typography is vital for your success. Today we collected must read books for passionate… The post 15 Enlightening Books for Typography Enthusiasts appeared first on Inspirationfeed.

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Spine Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2020

Book cover designers Cherie Chapman and Eric Wilder have joined forces to create Chapman & Wilder, a new studio that spans specialties and, well, the Atlantic. Chapman explains that she became aware of Wilder for his work as Editor-In-Chief of Spine Magazine, a primarily online publication that covers the best in book design.

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Spine Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Alison Forner is an Art Director at Avid Read Press and Simon & Schuster, whose work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in their 50 Books/50 Covers Show. Here she tells us about her process for designing The Appointment. In book publishing, there are certain genres or themes that repeat year after year.

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Spine Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Natasha MacKenzie (aka miss nat mack) is a coffee-addicted book designer primarily based out of Manchester. With a professional background in marketing, branding and book design, she helps authors and publishers across the globe bring their stories to life! View fullsize. View fullsize. View fullsize.

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crowdspring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Like it or not, people judge books by their covers. In a store packed with books (or sitting at home browsing Amazon) your book cover design is the most effective way to catch people’s attention. A shoddy book cover will make prospective readers question the value of the content within. Design by espacioM.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

What is the Purpose of a Book Cover? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages.

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Fonts in Use

APRIL 28, 2023

Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon : 125 years ago today – at exactly 12:05 in the afternoon, Berlin time – H. skylonabooks.

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Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK COVER? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages.

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Abduzeedo

MARCH 26, 2021

A typographic inspired ‘variorum’ edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’ that highlights all the linguistic changes Charles Darwin introduced to the book since its first publication in 1859, by presenting them alongside the complete sixth and final edition of the book later published in 1872. abduzeedo 03.26.21

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 11, 2023

Top 10 Best Books for Logo Designers In a world where brands compete for attention, a powerful and memorable logo can make all the difference. As a logo designer, you understand the art of blending creativity, strategy, and technical skill to craft visual identities that resonate with audiences.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

The 15 Best Web Design Books to Level Up Your Skills The web design space moves fast. With new technologies and best practices constantly emerging, it can be tricky for designers to stay current. That's where great books come in handy. Why Read Web Design Books? Are you sold on the power of books?

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Thinking Design

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A Deep Dive into How to Create Engaging + Accessible Text Layouts We all agree that we are besieged by content and that we have less time to read it all. Imagine you receive a book, report or paper for work and you need to read and digest the material quickly for an upcoming meeting. The net result? What exactly does that mean?

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Quick Background… In my twenty-year role as a graphic designer, I’ve designed books, album covers, magazines, logos, websites, and built digital tools. Regardless of the final forms, if its client-based or self-initiated, I treat all my designs as opportunities for intellectual inquiry and self-expression.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The best graphic design books are not dry and dusty academic tomes, but take you on an exciting journey of the imagination and transport you to new creative worlds. From classics of the discipline to the best of new releases, these books should be on every designer’s reading list. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 9, 2019

ARS Maquette and Copernicus Book. Designed by Angus R. Copernicus Book is a much more traditional serif that exudes authority and a sense of formality, yet still with friendly and approachable letter-shapes. Freight Text is a serif typeface designed by Joshua Darden and published through GarageFonts in 2005.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 16, 2021

An essential part of generating this list of ten favourite book covers of the year is tracking down the designer behind each one. While most covers are fairly easy to credit, particularly if shared by the designer, or added to their personal website, a few usually remain elusive for a time. Book publishers!

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Consider all users and use assistive text Another example is asking, have you read any book recently? Then the next question reads, ‘what is the title of the book you read recently?’ What happens to the user who said they had not read any book recently?

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UX Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

.” — Steve Krug “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug was one of the first reading materials recommended to me when I started as a Product Designer. However, given the limited options and the ever-increasing benefit of performing tasks online, aspects such as emailing, mobile banking and travel booking have become a need.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It's easy to start, and there are plenty of different books and apps to choose from, depending on what works best for your lifestyle. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future. To begin, create a layout for your bullet journal. However, there are some design flaws, and I won't lie to you.

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Eye on Design

JUNE 16, 2022

I think Eames is saying that all the little, seemingly invisible decisions that no one else will notice, these are the things that make a piece of design work or not work. This idea is perhaps never more evident than in designing a photo book. I’ve collected photo books for years but, strangely, never considered their design.

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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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UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2023

(Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts.

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Tuts Plus

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A Brief History of Type Text is never simply text—typography, or the way type is arranged on a layout, has a huge influence over the visual impact of a message, setting the tone and. Books can be lengthy, and for this task you need a typeface that, above everything else, reads well. Grace Fussell. 10 Aug 2018. Grace Fussell.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 4, 2022

: A Documentary of Student Protest publishes results from the campus study alongside news coverage, quotes from students, and agitprop artwork. Burke paces the book with drumbeat cold hard facts punctuated by the action on the streets. . was recognized by AIGA’s Fifty Books of the Year. Courtesy Letterform Archive. In Right On!

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Bauhaus design school played a pivotal role, promoting clean, modernist design integrated with function. Pioneering designers like El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy elevated typography and page layout into an art form. Post World War II, graphic design mirrored profound societal shifts.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sample spread from the book design for Be Gay Do Crime The image samples of Be Gay Do Crime are an editorial example of how we can begin to introduce genderfluidity into design work. In combining an expressive serif, monospaced type, and a handwritten font, the typography itself is an uncommon showcase.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s a relationship that goes back millennia — Ancient Greeks and Egyptians were just as enamoured with their natural world as we are today — and a new book from Phaidon looks to chart this creative connection. ” For designers in particular, the structure and composition can be particularly inspiring, Clarke says.

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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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UX Collective

MARCH 20, 2023

Aarron Walter, in his book “ Designing for Emotion ,” takes a similar approach and describes a hierarchy of user needs. For example, a dashboard designed for a data analyst may be different from one designed for a marketing professional, as they may have different preferences in terms of color, layout, and overall aesthetics.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As designers, we all love them—whether it’s a beautifully designed cover or a weighty tome on the history of design and its major sub-genres. Though, when it comes to books on the topic of graphic design, it’s often hard to find the best ones to read. Buy the book. The Package Design Book.

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Creative Review

JUNE 3, 2021

“We were learning about layout composition and it struck me that composition could be applied to the crappy digital snapshots I had been taking for fun,” he remembers. “Luckily, my husband is and helps me out with some of the more math-y part of photography, Photoshop and book design,” he says.

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Spine Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

One of my favorite design shows, The AUPresses, Book, Jacket, and Journal Show has announced the selections for this year's show. You can view all of the stunning designs here: design.up.hcommons.org. I have every single AUP catalog since my book design career began almost 10 years ago at Columbia University Press.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the wake of all this change, Flynn co-wrote a book that imagines new possibilities for what the crit can be. She starts by involving them in planning the day from the very beginning, considering everything from the order of events to the layout of the room. The book is not a polemic. Students and faculty embraced it.

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