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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

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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Call for Entries: Finding Forte

Fonts in Use

Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Microsoft licensed the digitized version and bundled the font with their Office software, starting with Publisher 97. Every image included in the book will be credited by name as a gesture of thanks. License: All Rights Reserved.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. In my home there were not a lot of books. When I got my first books at my childhood primary school, it was a whole new world,” he says. Photo by George Kafka.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

The term branding used over here mainly refers to the visual outputs that a company/individual would publish. Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. Nothing was overlooked. Could that have been the case?

Brand 101
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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 How did the Middle Ages use signs and signifiers for communication? When did the concept of abstract logos emerge?

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Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences

UX Collective

This curation may look like highlighting or picking our certain keywords of interest in a conversation or manually highlighting in a book. For example, the act of buying coffee is driven by the desire for caffeine, the presence of money and a nearby coffee shop, and the coffee shop sign serving as a prompt.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

It was originally published on March 23, 2021. I came to Ebner’s work through her book The Sun as Error , a collaboration with Dexter Sinister , which can also be found on the shelves of more than a few designers I know. This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives.

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