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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. The book's front and back covers use metallic silver ink with a luminescent quality that resembles the shine of lowrider cars and their chrome work.

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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. This is a strongly contrasted, edgy, blazing serif typeface suitable for display purposes on screens and in print.

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Patrick Thomas & his PULP silkscreen prints respond to the era of "truth decay"

Type room

A-Z presents , exhibition , Patrick Thomas , talk , Berlin , fake news , truth , artivism , silkscreen , silkscreening prints , newspaper , printing. In 2011 Laurence King Publishing , published his second book Protest Stencil Toolkit. Since 2011 he is based in Berlin. A revised edition was released in April 2019.

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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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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ever-varied range of covers for new titles. There’ll be some catching up to do in 2021, that’s for sure.

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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.

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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.