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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

Everett by Weltkern Everett is a sans-serif font with a minimalist design. Its symmetrical structure is balanced with an organic drawing and a particular digital flavour. Low ascenders and descenders allow designers to set texts with tight line spacing, resulting in economising space. Nan Tragedy by NaN 3.

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Patrick Thomas & his PULP silkscreen prints respond to the era of "truth decay"

Type room

Between 2004–05 he was Graphic Research Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University and since October 2013 he is a professor of visual communication at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art. Featured contributions will range from print, digital media, installation, performance, film, and a variety of other media and formats.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Perfect for beginners, it introduces universally applicable design concepts like proximity, alignment, contrast, scale, visual hierarchy and more across four concise chapters. With practical applications for print and digital media, mini-exercises let you put lessons into practice as you go.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek / Photo via Twitter We can replace “industrial design” with “interaction design”, “UX design” or “service design” and the quote is still accurate. Tomlinson B.,

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The case for using non-human personas in design

UX Collective

This article makes a case for adding non-human personas to the repertoire of personas considered in design projects. Without knowing you have likely already been designing for a non-human stakeholder. Daktronics are a manufacturer of digital billboards based in South Dakota in the US. But more about that later.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Even when developers consciously focus on user interface design, the resulting applications can have usability, consistency, and interoperability problems. Welcome to Design Patterns. Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., 104) or a unique vocabulary that we can share between designers or a design community.

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Uncharacteristic Characters

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

When I started designing typefaces professionally, back in 1989, I spent a lot of time advocating for custom typography as a way to end the monoculture of early digital fonts. My hope is that Inkwell helps to push this definition further, in order to better serve both designers and readers.