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Top 10 of 2023: Our Favourite Public Spaces

Azure Magazine

From landscapes that address climate change (while welcoming cultural and social life) to a rich variety of parks, plazas and buildings — and even infrastructure projects — that engage the urban realm, the best public spaces are a celebration of community and collective spirit.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Grid Systems in Graphic Design Design is a Job A New Program for Graphic Design Show Your Work!: Learn More Latest Price on Amazon: Sale 81 Reviews Design Is a Job Audible Audiobook Mike Monteiro (Author) - Mike Monteiro (Narrator) English (Publication Language) 03/31/2014 (Publication Date) - A Book Apart (Publisher) $12.99

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Names to know: 20 visionaries shaping the future of creativity

Creative Boom

chapter of #blackandbrilliant, serves on advisory boards, and mentors through programs like Bloom and SheSays. This includes the Cannes Grand Prix for the Bergen International Festival in 2014. Previously the art director at Bloomberg Businessweek, his work has been featured in a wide variety of publications.

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The 26 Best Books for Creative Business Owners

Inkbot Design

Sale Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Hardcover Gilbert, Elizabeth (Author) English (Publication Language) 304 Pages – 09/27/2016 (Publication Date) – Riverhead Books (Publisher) −$6.99 $11.01 Hardcover Book Jim Collins (Author) English (Subtitle) English (Publication Language) Buy on Amazon 4.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

Here at Azure, the annual tradition entails taking stock of the last 12 months of design, including public spaces , interiors , products , as well as residential and commercial architecture. In 2014, photographer Milos Bicanski revisited a series of venues constructed for the 2004 edition of the Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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

Eye on Design

The late Ken Garland ’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public meeting, has become a tradition of enduring protest that its originator could never have predicted. Graphic design had helped to construct “a reductive and immeasurably harmful code of public discourse.”

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Andrew Satake Blauvelt Elevated Graphic Design Far Beyond Notions of “Problem Solving”

Eye on Design

As an undergraduate, he was exposed to a rare-at-the-time design program that wasn’t simply commerce-focused, but also incorporated the history and theory of graphic design. Their program had made a name for itself as the epicenter of progressive graphic design and a hotbed for the intersection of design and critical theory.