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A Tribute To Nature: Standards Manual Releases Parks 2

Design Milk

Publisher Standards Manual returns with a brilliant green second edition of their first book, Parks , an anthem to graphic design in collaboration with photographer Brian Kelley , now in its fifth reprint. Standards Manual is a 2014 independent publisher founded by New York-based designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth.

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

Creative Boom

Hamish Smyth discusses the making of the book Classified: Local Ads from America's Small Towns and why it's a must-read for designers in 2023. 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.

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Bored of Pinterest? 8 alternatives to try for design inspiration

Creative Boom

The design profession, too, has embraced Pinterest with open arms. Studios and freelancers across the world have it bookmarked for graphic design inspiration and visual exploration. Launched in 2014, it's especially popular among conceptual thinkers and experimental creators.

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Gretel's Dylan Mulvaney on city life, serendipity, and why graphic designers never get famous

Creative Boom

In 2014, Netflix approached us to do their global branding because of our experience branding TV networks. Graphic design is essentially ephemeral. If a future designer found my work, I'd want them to take what they find useful, ignore the rest, and keep pushing the discipline forward. Graphic design is so open-ended.

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How Alphabet shapes brands with trust, collaboration and a 'Saul Bass ethos'

Creative Boom

And while trust, collaboration, and confidence are perennial essentials for designers, Mushtaq reckons things have certainly shifted over the past decade since he graduated from his graphic design course at Leeds University.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Our daily routines have long included graphic design. A successful company today can only be imagined with a unique face created by designers. In this article, we’ve compiled a selection of the best books for graphic designers in 2023. You’ll learn about this idea a lot in graphic design, among many others.

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Designer and illustrator Julia Wand on her love of nature and why sketching is crucial

Creative Boom

The Münster School of Design graduate discusses her creative journey so far and how she has developed her unique style. Julia Wand is an illustration and graphic design graduate of the Münster School of Design in Germany. In my opinion, illustration and graphic design go hand-in-hand together," she explains.