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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. Roboto by Christian Robertson Roboto is a sans-serif typeface designed by Christian Robertson as the system font for Android in 2011.

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A new book designed by Span pays homage to lowrider culture

Creative Boom

Slow & Low was originally founded in 2011 as an annual Chicago street festival but has since grown to a high-profile event with over 10,000 attendees. Lowrider car clubs were prominent during the mid-20th century and remain a part of Chicano, Mexican, Aztec, and classic car culture.

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“How Do You Live?”: The Superb Illustrations by Julia Tveritina

Design You Trust

She holds a master’s degree from the National Academy of Arts (2011). In addition to winning a silver medal for her master’s diploma in graphic techniques in 2015 and a grant from the Ukrainian president in 2013, she also won the 2018 Best Book Design award for “Girls Power.”

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7 Best Creatives from Belgium

Shillington

Tim Bisschop has been working as a graphic designer in Bruges since 2011. He’s done some incredible work for book design, posters, magazines and cool branding projects, working with amazing clients like Studio David Lynch, Anton Corbijn, Erwin Olaf, Stephan Vanfleteren, Aperture, Prestel Publishing and Thames and Hudson.

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Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

Eye on Design

The Vilnius-based designer uploaded his first mockup – a brochure design – onto GraphicRiver in 2011 and set up Mockup Cloud in 2017. On Behance or Instagram, a mocked-up book design can sit next to a completed, printed and distributed book.

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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

The guiding principle of “ like that book but different ” cover design has existed for decades. We were lucky enough to follow in the footsteps of Andy Pressman,” Verso Books’ art director from 2011 to 2018. “We

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In CAPS LOCK, Ruben Pater Untangles the Relationship Between Graphic Design and Capitalism

Eye on Design

With less hope to be placed in computers, designers have been finding it out in the streets, drawing energy from waves of opposition that encompass inflection points ranging from the 2011 “movements of the squares” to last year’s protests around the murder of George Floyd.