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First look: Inside the Design Museum’s electronic music blockbuster

Design Week

The most familiar design is likely the work The Haçienda. The Manchester club, set up in 1982, with interiors designed by Ben Kelly gets its due at the exhibition, with a note on the industrial interior design cues as well as the name’s idiosyncratic typography.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

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.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

Shillington

Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Fonts have different personalities that can create trust, mistrust, give you confidence, make things seem easier to do or make a product taste better. A beautiful book designed by Christoph Grünberger, Analog Algorithm is a tool kit to create new forms. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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35 Famous Graphic Designers You Need To Know

Shillington

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.