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10 fun illustration challenges to spark your creativity and energise you in 2024

Creative Boom

Inktober Jake Parker created Inktober in 2009 to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It's a great way to explore typography and letterforms creatively, and here's a great example by Robert Lomas. Official illustration challenges 1. Further ideas to challenge yourself with 5.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

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To help, I've compiled this list of the 37 best design books covering various specialities – from typography and layout to UX and web design. Buy on Amazon Design Thinking for Visual Communication This introduction to visual communication zeroes in on graphic design's role in contemporary culture and society.

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Fab new typefaces to freshen up your design projects this Spring

Creative Boom

At Briega by Arillatype.Studio Arillatype.Studio is a design studio based in Málaga with a passion for typography and exploring the intersection of creativity, craft and technology. In short, Module is a distinctive contemporary display font that's suitable for both digital and print-based projects that you want to stand out.

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Milton Glaser: Designing a Cultural Revolution

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Mentorship and Early Career While studying at the renowned Cooper Union School of Art, Milton Glaser found a mentor in the designer and typographer Henry Wolf. As art director of iconic magazines such as Esquire and Bazaar, Wolf was a typography and advertising design titan.

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The World’s Most Famous Graphic Designers in 2019

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His deep love of typography and traditional print elements are clearly illustrated within his social media postings. One of ‘Today’s Most Influential Graphic Designers’ by Creative Bloom, Lauren’s whimsical yet engaging typography fills (or rather ticks) all the Instagram boxes of her account. Think Mad Men, with a pop of colour.

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Women You Should Know in Graphic Design History

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Gail Anderson is a graphic designer and writer who graduated from the School of Visual Arts. Her love for typography started from her passion for words. Marian Bantjes is a Canadian designer who uses intricate patterns and typography. Marian Bantjes, GQ Italy cover, October 2009. Let's take a look: Gail Anderson.

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35 Famous Graphic Designers You Need To Know

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On top of this, she is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, contributes to Imprint and Uppercase magazine and has co-authored numerous books, including The Typographic Universe, American Typeplay and New Modernist Type. He lectures at his alma mater the School of Visual Arts and other colleges across America.