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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. Cut to the chase.

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

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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. They will also cover a spectrum of topics, from typography and language, templates and hacking, to political and social questions, etc.

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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

Getting started with non-human personas To start building non-human personas for your own design projects, you can download a free PDF template along with examples and other resources from the companion website of our book Design Think Make Break Repeat. There is also a Miro version of the template.

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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.

Inkwell is an attempt to create a family of fonts that feels like hand-written text: how you might letter the entire contents of a book, if you had infinite time, patience, and skill. My hope is that Inkwell helps to push this definition further, in order to better serve both designers and readers.