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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

We interviewed leading designers to find out what's working and not working for them now. We also added new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and the rise of digital culture. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. $26.95.

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Design minimalism: aesthetic vs function

UX Collective

.” — Steve Krug “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug was one of the first reading materials recommended to me when I started as a Product Designer. Digital products should be accessible to all and it is best practise to design with accessibility in mind right from conception, not as a legal tickbox but because it is the right thing to do.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

Shillington

Vince Frost Design Your Life. In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. Design Matters. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a radio show, Design Matters, which became the first-ever of the design and creative podcasts.

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

Type room

In 2005 he published Black & White, a compilation of his work for the International Press. In 2011 Laurence King Publishing , published his second book Protest Stencil Toolkit. Featured contributions will range from print, digital media, installation, performance, film, and a variety of other media and formats.

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Raising capital for inclusive design

UX Collective

Here’s a framework to help us apply capital to inclusive design (Yeo, 2023) You are a shareholder if you are reading this. It’s because you have the means to have access to this material, whether through a digital asset, like a laptop or a phone, or through knowledge from a design education. Somehow, someone has invested in you.

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

Some of these may not be the most obvious font combinations, but they all work together beautifully and are potentially suitable for a wide range of design purposes. Elena is a lovely font designed specifically for digital text. Freight Text is a serif typeface designed by Joshua Darden and published through GarageFonts in 2005.

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .