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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

Illustrator Adrian Bauer will never forget "seeing my illustration printed in real life, in the magazine on the newspaper stand, not to mention writing the first invoices and being able to make a full-time living from it. I think I've never been so proud of myself, and I feel like I can do anything now," she enthuses. Goosebumps moment!"

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Coming Up For Air looks back on 30 years of work by Stephen Gill

Creative Review

He spoke to CR at the time of the challenges of self-publishing , as well as the motivation behind setting up Nobody , his own publishing imprint, in 2005. It displays prints alongside proofs and photo books – of which Gill has published many over the course of his three-decade career.

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Top 10 Typography Artists Worth Following

Inkbot Design

When expressed in artistic and inventive ways, typography moves away from being only words arranged for print and becomes inspiring and exciting forms of design. English (Publication Language) 56 Pages - 06/12/2018 (Publication Date) - Holzwarth Publications (Publisher). Abrams (Publisher). Publisher). Christopher Wool.

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How to Make the Best Magazine Cover Design (& Learn the Anatomy of a Magazine Cover)

Tuts Plus

Depending on the publishing frequency, some magazines may use the month and year (January 2020), while quarterly magazines may include the season and the year (Summer 2020). Volume refers to the years the magazine has been in circulation, while issue refers to how many times it has been published during that year. Mohammad Jeprie.

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BFI invites designers and illustrators to reimagine classic films

Design Week

Since 1992, the book series, published with BFI partner Bloomsbury, has invited writers to muse on movies they think are key contributions to the history of film. To mark the change, the BFI has invited a selection of illustrators, designers and photographers to reimagine the covers of the three new and 17 reissued titles due to be published.

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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. Designed and illustrated by Michael Czaja, published by Henry Holt and Company. Knopf Publishing Inc.

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Fonts in Use

” The original small poster became an SVA Subway poster that was distributed all over New York and its five boroughs by students from the College the week of September 11, 2001. The same iconic image was used as the front and back page of the Daily News on September 19, 2001. The small print is in Frutiger.