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Laura Stein on the Five Books that shaped her approach to design, branding, and sustainability

Creative Boom

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart I'm unsure what prompted me to pick up this book in 2002. Let's explore her favourite reads and their powerful impact on her work. I was out of art school and inching my way to a life in graphic design.

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Super Logo Design

Logo Design Love

Super Logo Design , edited by Taki Ono , is a two-volume set of paperbacks published in 2001 and 2002 by Graphic-sha in Japan. These spreads are from volume two, available to digitally borrow on archive.org.

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'The future of work is wobbly': NB Studio's off-kilter rebrand for Streamtime

Creative Boom

It's been rethinking timesheets since 2002. Despite these difficulties, we've never been as organised as we are now, thanks to project management software, Streamtime. This isn't your average solution to managing our day-to-day workload, though. Would you believe it?

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How the Adobe Logo Reflects the Evolution of Digital Creativity

Inkbot Design

When competitors were chasing flashy digital aesthetics, Adobe took the smarter routeevolutionary refinement rather than revolutionary redesign. This preserved brand equity while still appearing modern.

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Fantasy Island shows Ireland from 70 photographers’ alternative perspectives

Its Nice That

Above Mervyn Smyth: Holy Cross (Copyright © Mervyn Smyth, 2002) The front cover of Fantasy Island always gets a reaction from anyone you show it to – an evocative school book design with a drawing that appears to have been drawn in pencil and partially erased.

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Free Font Of The Day : Coolvetica

Design Beep

Designed by Ray Larabie in 2002, this typeface takes inspiration from the iconic Helvetica but adds a relaxed, retro twist that makes it stand out. This is out daily free font of the day post. Fonts have personalities, and few are as effortlessly cool as Coolvetica.

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AI Pace Layers: a framework for resilient product design

UX Collective

Jesse James Garretts 5 layers from The Elements of User Experience Design(2002) This framework doesnt focus on time, or on tension points resulting from conflicting velocities. Slower layers provide constraints and underpinnings for the faster layers, while faster layers induce adaptations in the slower layers that evolve thesystem.