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

Design Week

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. As book production expanded, so did the AIGA’s outlook. Design description).

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

This is what we’ll use as our definition of Sustainable Graphic Design for the remainder of this piece: Sustainable graphic design is “graphic design in support of all life flourishing,” or, “graphic design for the welfare of all life.” All life flourishing is not the traditional goal of business, culture, and design.

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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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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

In 2001, more and more of us began using CSS to replace the non-semantic HTML table layouts with which we’d designed the web’s earliest sites. There’s nothing wrong with using frameworks to quickly whip up and test product prototypes, especially if you do that testing in a non-public space. And the div cries Mary.

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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 do gerbils being shot out of cannons and trained chimps in garages tell us about a company and its products? Whether it be film, television, radio, newspaper, a book, music, digital imaging, an app or the internet a story is only as effective as one’s mastery of the medium.

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