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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

Whether you’re creating a poster, a brochure, a website or any other kind of design that includes text, the importance of typography cannot be underestimated. They make an ideal combination, then, for any design that seeks to use typography to grab visual attention and engagement from the viewer. Ogg and Freight Text.

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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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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.

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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. .

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Independent type foundries set to be popular with designers in 2025

Creative Boom

When it comes to shaping the visual language of brands and narratives, typography is absolutely crucial. Type of Feeling provides both a curated collection and custom typography services and emphasises the importance of unique typography in storytelling and brand identity. For more details, read our news story on the launch.

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The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy

Inkbot Design

Each idea, arranged broadly in chronological order, is illustrated with exemplary images and context, ranging from technical (overprinting, rub-on designs) to stylistic (loud typography and white space); to objects (dust jackets, design handbooks) and methods (paper cut-outs, pixelation). −$35.05. Buy on Amazon.

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Here’s Why John Updike Designed His Own Book Covers

Eye on Design

John Updike’s notes on Chip Kidd’s jacket design for The Afterlife and other stories , 1994. Image courtesy Chip Kidd, originally published in Chip Kidd: Book One. Three of them riff on Ford’s iconic striped design for Updike’s first novel. The fourth is the rainbow cover for Rabbit is Rich.