Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Designer George Bartell designed the original Barbie logo in 1959, just a year after the first Barbie doll hit the market. The logo featured a simple cursive font in blue and was used on packaging, advertising and merchandise. Its timeless design and the use of pink have made it a true icon in marketing and advertising.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Part inspiration and part workbook, the images of hand-drawn type will inspire and excite any designer to draw and explore type. Drawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Buy the book. Buy the book.

Graphic Design 119

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.

Graphic Design 140

Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Publishing 140

Shillington

JUNE 14, 2021

We don’t know many—if any other—famous graphic designers whose work was kick started at a housewarming party. But back in 2009, Dana Tanamachi’s impromptu chalk installation at a party in Brooklyn led to a Google commission, a resurgence in the chalk lettering trend and Tanamachi’s flourishing career. Dana Tanamachi.

Graphic Design 145

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