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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. 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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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Since then, pattern libraries have become a commonly used tool in the design process, enabling designers to document and reuse design solutions for common user interface challenges. Finally, the best of these solutions stand out, self-identify, and refine themselves until they reach the status of a design pattern.

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

ARS Maquette and Copernicus Book. Designed by Angus R. Shamal and released through ARS Type in 2001, its pleasing geometrics are both super-friendly and supremely readable. Copernicus Book is a much more traditional serif that exudes authority and a sense of formality, yet still with friendly and approachable letter-shapes.

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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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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

What is vitally important to you, as UX/UI designers and developers, is “why” I lost you. It is something a lot of UX designers and developers completely overlook in their rush to toss out the latest cool effect, a motion graphic that will get them noticed or app that will win them accolades from a worldwide audience.

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

I’m attempting to curate a space where visual designing and sustainability overlap meaningfully. Quick Background… In my twenty-year role as a graphic designer, I’ve designed books, album covers, magazines, logos, websites, and built digital tools. Sustainable Graphic Design Looks Eco-Friendly?—?Clearly