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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. As Nolan developed the typeface, it quickly became more personal and evolved into the designer's own take on the grotesque genre.

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Jinhee Han has a love for Risograph and complex layouts

Creative Review

Currently living in Brussels, Korean book designer and illustrator Jinhee Han’s love of design was first sparked when working for an independent bookshop in Seoul called The Book Society. “That was the first time I touched art books and truly appreciated the beauty of books,” Han says.

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Aldus Manutius & the Paperback

Thinking Design

The many contributions to the art of printing made by Aldus Manutius include the first italic typeface, which he created with the type cutter Francesco Griffo. Although books were popular and in demand Manutius' finances were often unstable. 26, 2015. TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P, Dolphin and Anchor). Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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How research builds the designer

UX Collective

Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels The practice of design has been around since 2.5 The central message of the book Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini is that nowadays, everyone designs, actively playing a role in devising strategies to make their lives, companies, societies better. 2015, August 17).

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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

The guiding principle of “ like that book but different ” cover design has existed for decades. In The Look of the Book , Peter Mendelsund and David Alworth’s 2020 monograph, the authors call this mutative style “the interchangeable, big-type, colorful cover.” The “Big Book Look.”

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Aldus Manutius & the Paperback

Thinking Design

The Aldine Press premiered an immensely popular new format well-designed editions of the secular classics Manutius called libelli portatiles, or portable little books because they easily fit in the hand of the reader, the first paperbacks. 26, 2015 [link] Italics were intended to mimic the humanist handwriting of the day.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Key insights: Apply design processes in daily life Rapid prototypes test concepts Fail small, fail fast, fail often Think with your hands to visualise solutions A design mindset builds creative confidence. With practical applications for print and digital media, mini-exercises let you put lessons into practice as you go.