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“Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant”: the enduring value of book design

Design Week

The annual competition was originally known as Fifty Books of the Year, and jurors focused on the “construction of the book and the printed page”, its current organiser Heather Strelecki tells Design Week. As book production expanded, so did the AIGA’s outlook. Why this year?”

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Core design principles Concepts of visual organisation and composition Creative problem-solving processes Graphic design history Ideal for beginners yet insightful for experienced designers, Graphic Design Theory helps cement core graphic design knowledge. Sale The Design of Everyday Things Donald A.

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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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Depero Futurista, Dinamo-Azari

Fonts in Use

Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: [link] © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE Rome. Today it’s recognized as the first modern-day artist’s book. There are a few other typefaces that were used elsewhere in the book, but the vast majority was typeset in the fonts identified here.

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10 Typefaces That Changed the World

Tuts Plus

German printer Johannes Gutenberg invented the first mechanical moving type in 1439, with the chunky, Gothic letterforms of blackletter being used to print Bibles, pamphlets, and manuscripts. . 30 Best Blackletter and Gothic Fonts for Designers We’re celebrating all things German here at Envato Tuts+ this week. Laura Keung. Typography.

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Scientia

Typographica

She may not be widely known in the West, but Vasilyeva is an accomplished Russian type designer, book designer, and calligrapher hailing from Barnaul, a big city in Western Siberia, near the borders of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. Scientia was developed chiefly for the astronomy books Vasilyeva designs.

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From Kindergarten Through High School, This Family Has Been Making a Magazine Together for Ten Years

Eye on Design

Holycrap’s 2014 sophomore zine, ‘ Till Death Do Us Apart,’ was dedicated to the 50th wedding anniversary of Claire’s parents, while 2016’s issue five, ‘ I n the Name of the Father ’ was an untold eulogy for Pann’s late father who the children never met. “bLAh bLAh bLAh” exhibition in 2012.