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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy. I recently updated one of the more popular posts on the blog entitled the best books for Logo Designers and thought a corresponding page of the best Graphic Design books could be helpful. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. $19.99. .

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

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On Thursday 10 October at 19:00, Patrick Thomas , the graphic artist , and professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart will give a talk about his current exhibition on display at A—Z: the PULP series , and the wider political aspects of his practice. Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator.

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40 Best Creative Podcasts To Liven Up Your Day

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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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A “One-Man Print Archive of Culture, Community, and Social Change” — Café Royal Share Five Favorite Books

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Café Royal Books has only ever been me. It started in 2005. There’s a few books that they make that are interesting in that way — formats questioning what a book can be. And she wrote a book called Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Six Years …, by Lucy Lippard.

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

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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. .

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

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Inspired by the hand lettering of 20th-century book designer and calligrapher Oscar Ogg, Ogg captures a unique mix of calligraphic and typographic form. Recommended for posters, product packaging, magazine spreads and book covers, this serif font was designed by Lucas Sharp and published by Village in 2013.

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Here’s Why John Updike Designed His Own Book Covers

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Three of them riff on Ford’s iconic striped design for Updike’s first novel. To learn more about Updike the art director, I revisited Chip Kidd’s 2005 monograph, Book One. Kidd is an acclaimed book cover designer who created many jackets for and with Updike at Knopf.

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