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Gustavo Piqueira’s Book Covers Show the Creativity (and Cost) of Constraints

Eye on Design

Gustavo Piqueira will make you wholly rethink book design—and, well, books at large. . The crew opened a studio, which would eventually evolve into Piqueira’s current practice in 2010. And then we started to enter visual identity contests…and we started to win the contests.”. They took on work for multinational companies.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek / Photo via Twitter We can replace “industrial design” with “interaction design”, “UX design” or “service design” and the quote is still accurate. Papanek, V.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Buy on Amazon White Space is Not Your Enemy White space is easily one of the most under-utilised elements in design compositions. Buy on Amazon Experimental Typography Typographer and designer Rob Carter examines creative and unconventional approaches in Experimental Typography.

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15+ Best Design Thinking Books to Read

Inkbot Design

In fact, according to a report by the Design Management Institute, design-driven companies outperformed the S&P 500 by 228% over 10 years. This demonstrates the value of incorporating design thinking into social innovation efforts.