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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. Extra points for the nicely stacked ‘THE’ Art director: Julian Humphries.

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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. First, he began experimenting with digital design and desktop publishing software as an early adopter of the Apple operating systems.

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Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences

UX Collective

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. A parallel theory, FBM, simplifies behavior into a function of motivation, ability, and a prompt (or trigger).

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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. They are being framed within selected shapes, colours, and patterns, just to reinforce the identity of their new upcoming fitness “brand.” Nothing was overlooked. And also, maybe, don’t look at Behance too much for inspiration.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 Logos from this era incorporated floral patterns, curved typography, and intricate illustrations. How did the Middle Ages use signs and signifiers for communication?

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21 Photoshop Tutorials to Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills

HONGKIAT

Designing an Isometric Pixel Art Coffee Shop This comprehensive tutorial guides you through the process of creating an isometric pixel art coffee shop. You’ll start by working out the dimensions of the building and then move on to adding finer details like awnings, shop signs, and outdoor furniture.

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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. Based on an image of four abstract concrete trees designed by Jan and Joe Martel for the Paris exhibition of the decorative arts in 1925, Boyce developed a pattern on paper that looks a bit like a repeating art deco motif.

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