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

Creative Boom

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. Their type designers, it's claimed, receive a much better percentage of license sales than on average. Everett by Weltkern 4.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

What is the Purpose of a Book Cover? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages. According to G.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK COVER? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages. According to G.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Ecosystemas: Representing Ecosystem Impacts in Design. Sams Publishing. The Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web.

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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 case for using non-human personas in design

UX Collective

Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans. Image by Ilias via Adobe Stock This article is based on a recently published academic paper with the title Non-Human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities , which appeared in the Journal of Interaction Design & Architecture(s).

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And the 2024 color of the year is.

UX Collective

The same principle and actions can also apply to designers, who can bear the responsibility of making better, more durable products and services that bring about a moral contribution to society and ecology. Tra Publishing, 22 Mar. Design for the Real World (Third Edition) Thames & Hudson. O’Meara, Kitty. link] Pantone.

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