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New book highlights how much graphic designers can learn from the small ads of yesteryear

Creative Boom

If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did. There are no URLs, QR codes, or even colours. And that was the case for those who created it, too. Obviously, times have changed since then.

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Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2019

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Water.css – Simple styles and semantic code for your static website. Flexbox30 – A guide for learning CSS Flexbox in 30 days via 30 code tidbits. Print to CSS – Check out a collection of print-inspired layouts recreated with CSS. 8 Code Snippets That Demonstrate the Power of CSS Grid. CSS Inspiration.

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The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland’s First Things First Manifesto

Eye on Design

Graphic design had helped to construct “a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.” The worldwide web was in its infancy and FTF 2000 was devised as a print-based campaign. In 2014, FTF’s 50th anniversary, Peters decided to launch a third version focused on design in the digital realm.

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The design execution gap

UX Collective

Web designers were working with inherited tools meant to create static images for print and so every design was just a picture that developers had to interpret and build from scratch based on their eyes alone. It was impossible to work in a design “reality” that came close to reflecting the reality of the code.

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The Best DIY Camera Kits to Level Up Your Photography

Feature Shoot

“In 2014, founder Drew Nikonowicz was uncertain if he would be able to afford his own 4×5 camera and equipment upon graduation. “Through the remainder of his time at the University of Missouri’s School of Visual Studies, Drew began 3D printing parts for a homemade 4×5.

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12 of the Best Adobe Illustrator Alternatives [Free & Paid]

Graphic Mama

Target audience: Industrial designers, Print designers, and Marketing professionals. Very trimmed in functions – being a niche software means you can’t really use it for complex illustrations and print design. Limiting for print – Canva is very limiting for designers. You can also embed your own code.

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Expo 2020 Dubai’s wayfinding weaves Middle East tradition with Western design

Design Week

Spaceagency started work on the project in 2014, according to studio director Sarah Manning, and the design has evolved several times over this period. The Sadu then provides a “colour-coded identity” for the different zones, Manning says, and each zone also has a different pattern. Festivity meets practicality.

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