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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. Iskry means Sparks in Polish," they explain.

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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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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. To help, I've compiled this list of the 37 best design books covering various specialities – from typography and layout to UX and web design.

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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. 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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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.

So neither typography nor calligraphy had the right tone. While the book was inherently entertaining, it was also going to be a dictionary, and needed to present as such. This conversation about tone echoed many of the open questions I had about my wedding invitations, and what sort of typography might be at once casual and serious.