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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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Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

Eye on Design

A model, an incomplete version of a product or object that communicates something important—shape, size, form, texture, colour, weight, etc.—about about the final product. A book mockup, for example, might have the correct paper weight, page size and binding, but contain no words. Let’s start simple: what is a mockup?

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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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15+ Best Design Thinking Books to Read

Inkbot Design

1 – The Design Thinking Playbook Sale Bestseller No. Buy on Amazon First off, let's talk about what design thinking is all about. Whether looking to (re-)design products, services, processes, business models, or ecosystems, design thinking is an incredibly powerful tool for driving innovation and solving wicked problems.

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

Elena is a lovely font designed specifically for digital text. A clear, crisp and modern-looking serif, it was designed by Nicole Dotin and released through Process Type Foundry in 2011. After all, we’re using it right here on this very site! SuisseWorks and Aperçu. Spectral and Basis Grotesque. Ogg and Freight Text.

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The 15 Best Web Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson User experience guru Jeff Johnson takes designers deep into the workings of the mind in his book Designing with the Mind in Mind. For designers seeking that mental edge, Designing with the Mind in Mind promises a trove of insights that few other books match.

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .