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“Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant”: the enduring value of book design

Design Week

The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has been judging books by their covers for over 100 years. Together and through that selection process, they might reveal answers to the secret of good book design Strelecki says. “But books, physical books, remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant.”

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .

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Jonathan Crinion: An Appreciation

Azure Magazine

Designed in Toronto for now-defunct brand Area and manufactured in Udine, Italy, Gazelle came out in 1987 and soon became a modern Canadian classic. Instantly popular upon its release, it furnished such diverse places as Disneyland, the studios of ABC and CNN and the Art Gallery of Ontario. But my favourite piece remains the Gazelle.