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

Creative Boom

Design and Illustrations by Giovani Flores using GT Pressura It's Valentine's Day this week, a celebration of love, passion and obsession. And if there's one obsession that designers feel truly passionate about, it's typography. Design and Illustrations by Giovani Flores using GT Pressura 14.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

The following are but a few of the design solutions that have graced the cover of the book over the past seventy plus years. They represent the changing relationship of the book jacket to the book, and the changing approach to book design and by extension book marketing over time. 1955 Penguin Books.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

The following are but a few of the design solutions that have graced the cover of the book over the past seventy plus years. They represent the changing relationship of the book jacket to the book, and the changing approach to book design and by extension book marketing over time. The type is simple.

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8 Insightful Design Books to Read While Social Distancing

Azure Magazine

But as researcher and curator Mohamed Elshahed shows in this handsome illustrated guide published by the American University of Cairo Press, the country’s sprawling capital is also a rich trove of modernist and contemporary building styles. Evan Pavka.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Buy on Amazon White Space is Not Your Enemy White space is easily one of the most under-utilised elements in design compositions. Buy on Amazon Logo and Branding Genius Logos and branding design require deep strategic insight combined with creative visual solutions.

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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. Gorey’s illustrations use all kinds of tropes and clichés to good effect, and his lettering does too.