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Kieron Lewis updates The Brownies' Book to inspire a new generation of black children

Creative Boom

London-based graphic designer Kieron Lewis has designed a new take on W.E.B. Du Bois' 1920s magazine for black children titled The New Brownies' Book. Du Bois released the first-ever magazine for African-American youth. A century later comes the updated version of the beloved magazine.

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How to Get an In-demand Profession In Design

Design Beep

The graphic designer is responsible for visualizing information. He develops corporate identity, makes advertising banners, and packaging layouts, and can do the layout of magazines and catalogs. The work of a graphic designer is a lot of creativity, but also enough routine. Motion Designer. Illustrator.

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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

In those days, whether from contempt for the deliberate, intentional (designed) limitations of HTML and CSS, or ignorance of the HTML and CSS framers’ intentions, many code jockeys who switched from table layouts to CSS wrote markup consisting chiefly of divs and spans. For who knows what evil lurks in someone else’s code?

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Faster development By using design patterns, designers can focus on the unique aspects of a project, rather than spending time on repetitive, common tasks. Easier maintenance Design patterns make it easier to maintain and update code, as patterns can be updated and improved without affecting the rest of the system.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Designers like Massimo Vignelli and Jan Tschichold built upon these theories in their iconic poster, magazine, and brochure designs. So, this book is a must-read for graphic designers looking to take their layout chops to the next level.

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

The source code was posted to a Flash list and the next thing you knew, spinning globes were showing up everywhere. Unfortunately much of the web and app development today is designed around an old media …the magazine. Benjamin Hoguet, Medium How to use storytelling in UX Marli Mesibov, Smashing Magazine What is storytelling?

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