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Mono Moment: Slanted's helpful reference guide to magical monospaced fonts

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A new book published by Slanted celebrates these hardworking fonts and offers a source of inspiration for graphic designers and typographers looking for a helpful reference guide. At a time when it has never been easier to design and publish typefaces, this book provides a good orientation to monospace.".

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Beginner’s Guide to Publishing Your First Ebook

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In the current era, self-publishing is easier than ever, making the most challenging aspect of becoming an established author the task of deciding on a topic to write about. Regardless of the topic, writing and publishing an ebook involves several crucial steps that you cannot avoid.

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Dutch design agency From Form's new identity is a cinephile's dream

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Other key reference points include printed materials from the same era, such as booklets, magazines, and manuals. The new branding is peppered with visual references to analogue design processes, such as the use of shapes with rounded corners to mask images as a nod to looking through a camera viewfinder.

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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

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Now, a new hardback book by Zupagrafika, an independent publisher, author and design studio based in Poznań, Poland, celebrates this era in style. Concrete Hong Kong joins a series of excellent books published by Zupagrafika, celebrating modernist architecture, design and photography in a unique and playful way.

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Photographing mothers who live in fear of losing their sons

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Jon Henry's new photography book, Stranger Fruit, has an obvious reference point in its title: the timelessly chilling, evocative song Strange Fruit, first written in 1937 but most famous through the voice of Billy Holiday with her 1939 recording and live renditions. Stranger Fruit is published by Monolith Editions and is available here.

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Two Deserts: From Form's latest exhibition traces the changing shape of the Californian desert

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Speaking of the story, Two Deserts is an account of Randall Henderson, the editor and publisher of DESERT Magazine. "A combination of analogue film and photography, stop-motion animation, paintings, letterpress printing, scale models, and built sets create a rich visual universe in which the story unfolds."

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Paul Catherall's illustrations spark a new series of modernist matchboxes

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Under a new brand called London Strike, the first of six matchboxes has been released today by Blue Crow Media , an award-winning publisher of distinctive city guide maps and more, including an ongoing celebrated series dedicated to Brutalist architecture.