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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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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch ) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. Three titles from Verso. Image by Laura Thompson.

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Top 10 Best Design Books to Kickstart Your Career

Inkbot Design

Design, Second Edition: The Definitive Visual Guide. Hardcover Book DK (Author) English (Publication Language) 480 Pages – 03/02/2021 (Publication Date) – DK (Publisher). I'm a designer and often think about design when working on projects. 2 – The Non-Designer's Design Book.

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Chloe Dewe Mathews on her five-year project capturing the River Thames

Creative Review

Published by Loose Joints, the series captures everyday life along the banks of the river and aims to explore peoples’ relationship to water as “a space to think, dream and connect” “My interest came while I was shooting a project out in the Caspian region called Caspian: The Elements. ”N 0°06’26.3”W,

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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. Buy on Amazon The book results from extensive international research involving multinationals, governments, and non-profits. Look no further than Graphic Design Thinking by Ellen Lupton.

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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

1450–1515) was the father of modern publishing. 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. 26, 2015. Denarius of Titus (80 AD).