Design Week

JANUARY 29, 2020

The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has been judging books by their covers for over 100 years. The annual competition was originally known as Fifty Books of the Year, and jurors focused on the “construction of the book and the printed page”, its current organiser Heather Strelecki tells Design Week.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills As a designer, expanding your knowledge is crucial for professional growth. With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. Read on for the cream of the crop regarding design literature.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy. I recently updated one of the more popular posts on the blog entitled the best books for Logo Designers and thought a corresponding page of the best Graphic Design books could be helpful. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. Know Your Onions: Graphic Design.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2023

Top 10 Best Logo Design Books for Designers Logos are the cornerstone of a brand's visual identity , distilling a company's essence into a symbolic mark that evokes recognition and trust at a glance. Designing an effective logo requires far more strategic thinking than many realise.

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We And The Color

JULY 9, 2021

How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, a book by graphic designer Sean Adams and published by Princeton Architectural Press. Feel free to click on the following link to get further information about this fine publication. Below you can get a sneak peek of the book. Buy on Amazon. Buy on Amazon.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 23, 2021

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch ) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. Three books that exemplify the “frappuccino unicorn” trend.

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We And The Color

APRIL 30, 2021

Typography for Screen: Type in Motion is our today’s recommended book published by Hoaki. Written by Wang Shaoqiang for publishing house Hoaki, Typography for Screen features a great range of uses of typography in motion for the digital environment. Are you interested to see more inspiring publications?

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BP&O

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Text by Richard Baird 160 Faces is a new publication from Swedish artist Daniel Götesson working under the name Ekta, designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist and distributed under the studio’s publishing arm ll’Editions.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ever-varied range of covers for new titles. There’ll be some catching up to do in 2021, that’s for sure.

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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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We And The Color

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Yearbook of Type #6 2022/23 is a great collection of new typefaces to help you find the right one whether you’re browsing the book or quickly peeping through the index, which neatly sorts typefaces by class, designer, and font foundry. The New Yearbook of Type #6 2022/2023 by Slanted Publishers.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 1, 2022

Cita Press is a library and press devoted to curating, highlighting, publishing, and promoting works written by women. It pairs contemporary authors and designers with open-access texts, and makes thoughtfully designed books available for free. We’re now also a bilingual press, publishing in Spanish and English.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 9, 2022

Last summer, while browsing the fiction aisles at Powell’s Books in Portland, a fat black spine caught my attention. At the top, the book’s title was typeset in tapering white capitals. I slid the book out. Image courtesy Third Mind Books. Anthony dollar coin floating at the top like a cold silvery moon.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Michael Sørensen, Partner and Design Director at Henning Larsen Michael Sørensen is a Partner and Design Director at Henning Larsen and co-leads the firm’s U.S. design studio in New York City. Intertwined with her built work, Lindsey speaks publicly, publishes and exhibits her research.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 20, 2023

4 Tips On Promoting Your Book Cover Through Design Many people think all that matters in a book are the contents. Your cover design shows what your book is about and can provide plenty of benefits that will help you in your career. Book writing services and professionals help you throughout the process.

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Trendland

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Wonders is a poetry book by a Montreal-based Studio Monozygote featuring a collection of poems and illustrations by a local artist Karim. With 75 original texts and 69 images, the publication was imagined as an art book but suitable to be read on the go. Words Marta Knas.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 27, 2020

Thankfully, this beloved book (which was also reinterpreted as a cabaret) is redolent with vibrant vignettes by numerous writers who thoughtfully illuminate this dynamic era. This little book keeps it alive. Elizabeth Pagliacolo. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger. Kendra Jackson. The Museum is Not Enough.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. As Nolan developed the typeface, it quickly became more personal and evolved into the designer's own take on the grotesque genre.

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Mindsparkle Mag

APRIL 11, 2023

The first major published work from the recently-founded Semi Permanent Brand Studio , 20 YEARS FORWARD & BACK, is presented as a non-linear time capsule exploring two decades of creativity forwards and backwards charting, reflecting and refracting a broad spectrum of excellence across multiple disciplines.

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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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Eye on Design

AUGUST 29, 2022

Café Royal Books is a one-man print archive of culture, community, and social change based in Southport, UK. This impressive image-based publisher shares the best of documentary photography in weekly releases that cater to those interested in subcultures, British and Irish post-war history and more. It started in 2005.

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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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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

“Once you start to see them, you’ll never understand how you didn’t see them before,” writes Roman Mars in the first few pages The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design. What was the impetus behind translating your now 10-year-old podcast 99% Invisible into a publication? Roman Mars.

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Eye on Design

JULY 11, 2022

Forty years after its original publication, the environmental and cultural context for the book has markedly shifted due to the climate crisis. Part of what makes Dixon’s post-anthropogenic world — teeming with the ancestors of animals we know today — so believable is their design, as well as the encyclopedic treatment of the book.

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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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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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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

One of the best ways to do this is through reading books but what if you don’t have the time? Blinkist is an app that summarises the key ideas from a bestselling nonfiction book in just 15 minutes. You can get books in bitesize text form as well as audio which makes it easier than ever to find time to read. After that, it is $9.99/month.

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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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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

JULY 29, 2023

Countless posters, advertisements, packaging, signage and books showcased Helvetica, securing its reputation as the quintessential “modern” typeface. Helvetica was even featured in the New York City subway system signage designed by Unimark International.

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High on Design by Wix

APRIL 23, 2019

His design work is presented in the permanent collections of museums such as MoMA and the Louvre. He’s also an author, teacher, podcaster and public speaker, and has worked with notable clients, like Adobe, Time Magazine, MailChimp and more. We spoke with James about his many creative undertakings: Designing ideas, not trends.

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Thinking Design

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Imagine you receive a book, report or paper for work and you need to read and digest the material quickly for an upcoming meeting. Are Authors, Editors, and Publishers willing to invest in ensuring their content is accessible to everyone by writing plainly and using points of entry? What exactly does that mean? That remains to be seen.

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UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2022

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. To speak up on behalf of the environment, the Sierra Club, stepped in and unsuccessfully attempted to block the development arguing that it would cause irreparable harm to the public interest. Sams Publishing. government. But the case Sierra Club v.

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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. For those of you keen to explore editorial design and print production, in this case study Annette offers invaluable insights into the process from start to finish.

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Type room

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In 2005 he published Black & White, a compilation of his work for the International Press. In 2011 Laurence King Publishing , published his second book Protest Stencil Toolkit. Since then he has exhibited his limited-editions across five continents, where many are now held in private and public collections.

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Thinking Design

JUNE 27, 2023

. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As an information designer of long-form content (print and digital), I support my publishing clients in creating text systems that captivate, engage, and facilitate engagement with readers.

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