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50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget

Inkbot Design

Visual books full of artwork, photography, and graphic techniques often provide the most value for designers. Here are the top picks in this category: Art and Design Books From modern to contemporary works, art books give designers eye candy to admire and draw ideas from. Sale Modern Art. Bring out your inner Matisse.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

Creative Boom

Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. This doesn't mean her background in illustration was time wasted, though.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Reading is one of the best ways to learn new techniques, theories, and approaches to elevate your craft. Sale Design Thinking for Visual Communication (Basics Design) Ambrose, Gavin (Author) English (Publication Language) 184 Pages – 08/22/2019 (Publication Date) – Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Publisher) −$4.72 $30.23

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What’s the value of a writing workshop for designers?

UX Collective

The act of storytelling strengthens empathy and provides perspective on how objects are imbued with meaning (A version of this article first appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Innovation , the quarterly of the Industrial Design Society of America.) That experience is most successful when it has a well-crafted narrative arc.

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Grafton Architects’ Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Win 2020 Pritzker Prize

Azure Magazine

Renowned for crafting weighty, solid buildings of concrete and stone, the Irish duo was recognized by the Pritzker jury for an architectural approach that’s “always honest, revealing an understanding of the processes of design and construction from large-scale structures to the smallest details.” Solstice Arts Centre.

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Steven Heller Gets Personal in His New Autobiography Growing Up Underground

Eye on Design

As the art director of the tabloid Rock (a Rolling Stone never-be), I designed some concert graphics for hard rock/psychedelic bands like Grand Funk Railroad and Blue Cheer but couldn’t be bothered to listen to their albums. Trump won the 2016 election, as if the future wasn’t bleak enough. Co-publisher and art director: Steven Heller.