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

Design Week

” And while there might not be one rule to good book design — Strelecki calls it a “process” between designers and clients — the jurors bring together a wealth of experience. Together and through that selection process, they might reveal answers to the secret of good book design Strelecki says.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

This enables the design experience to be reused. The concept of a pattern library in interaction design/human-computer interaction began to gain recognition in 1997, when Jennifer Tidwell presented her scientific article on the topic at the annual conference on human factors in computing systems (ACM/SIGCHI). Welie, 2001).

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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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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for sustainable graphic design? Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

In a presentation I regularly deliver on the subject of Motion Design, I position myself as a clueless Canadian who doesn’t understand the concept of a curveball in baseball. A story’s strength lies not only in its content and context but also in its presentation. You can’t read the radio. You can’t watch the radio.

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