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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. Massive Change had just been exhibited, and the show's book was published. Let's explore her favourite reads and their powerful impact on her work.

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Playtype resurrects Publish Gothic, a custom typeface for a Danish newspaper that survived just 41 days

Creative Boom

Within its first month of production in 2002, it amassed 13,000 subscribers and 20,000 buyers, who were all happily paying to access the publication that broke existing norms of style, form and journalism. "I Grab yourself Publish Gothic today, available from €50.

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Anniversary book from Semi Permanent is a 20-year time capsule of stunning creativity

Creative Boom

These case studies peek into others' portfolios, unearthed archival prints, and freshly-published artworks are by no means a singular representation of creative practice in the 21st century," he explains. "We And founder and executive creative director Murray Bell has a clear vision for how it should be read.

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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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Top 10 Times New Roman alternatives for designers

Creative Boom

Across the nine decades since, Times has been hugely popular worldwide, from newspapers to desktop publishing software. Designed by Jose Mendoza y Almeida in 1971 and published by Monotype, Photina was created specifically for phototypesetting, the technology that preceded digital and laser typesetting. Monticello by Matthew Carter.

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Top 10 Best Books On Branding Design & Identity

Inkbot Design

Hardcover Book Miller, Donald (Author) English (Publication Language) 240 Pages – 10/10/2017 (Publication Date) – HarperCollins Leadership (Publisher). Hardcover Book Airey, David (Author) English (Publication Language) 288 Pages – 01/22/2019 (Publication Date) – Rockport Publishers (Publisher).

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Sams Publishing. Design Think Make Break Repeat: A Handbook of Methods (Revised Edition), BIS Publishers. The mechanics of non-human personas was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Tomitsch M., Borthwick M., Ahmadpour N.,