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

Creative Boom

As well as creating fonts, the foundry is committed to making Ohno a positive force in the graphic and type design community. NaN Tragedy Display, meanwhile, is a more compact and contrasted design, pushing finesse and character further for tight and impactful headlines. Morizot of NaN in text, italic and display styles.

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

Type room

On Thursday 10 October at 19:00, Patrick Thomas , the graphic artist , and professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart will give a talk about his current exhibition on display at A—Z: the PULP series , and the wider political aspects of his practice. Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Read on for the cream of the crop regarding design literature. Fundamentals of Graphic Design Before diving deep into specialised areas of design, it helps to brush up on graphic design fundamentals. These books strongly introduce the key principles and practices all designers should know.

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8 Insightful Design Books to Read While Social Distancing

Azure Magazine

Containing entries for more than 200 sites and structures, the book covers territory from Al-Azhar Park (a 30-hectare oasis completed in 2004 by Sites International and Sasaki Associates) to Zamalek (home of iconic Cairo Tower, with its concrete latticework skin). Danny Sinopoli. Evan Pavka. Elizabeth Pagliacolo.

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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.

Illustrators and artists instinctively use the traditions of typography to confer legitimacy on the fantasy, to speak to readers in the same ways that graphic designers do. My hope is that Inkwell helps to push this definition further, in order to better serve both designers and readers.