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How Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design crafted the best-illustrated lifestyle book

Creative Boom

Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design recently scooped the best-illustrated lifestyle book at the British Book Design and Production Awards. We caught up with the publisher to hear how it crafted a winning design. In an increasingly digital world, the value of a beautiful, well-designed book can't be underestimated.

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Rafael Medeiros on enduring the Hollywood strikes as a freelance graphic designer

Creative Boom

Having built much of his career designing creative marketing for movies and TV series, from digital and social media campaigns to one-sheets and OOH, this has posed a big problem. "As Big break He first broke into the entertainment creative marketing industry when he met someone who ran a key art agency.

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

Design Week

As book production expanded, so did the AIGA’s outlook. In the 1960s, it started to evaluate covers distinct from the books inside. This was in a response to the “often shoddy text pages of mass-market paperbacks with brilliant covers”, as an AIGA newsletter from April 1960 explained. Why this year?”

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8 Female Graphic Designers That’ll Rock Your Socks Off

Just Creative

In graphic design world her packaging and identity work she blends today’s digital design techniques with her old-world sensibilities. Kristen Nikosey and her art and craft work Janet Allinger: With Tongue Planted Firmly in Cheek Irreverent humor in identity design? If the market can take it, this designer dishes it out.

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Type trends for 2024 every designer needs to know about

Creative Boom

As Mark Richardson, designer and founder of Superfried , explains: "In a digital world viewed on the small screen, sans are widely preferred for wordmarks. And they'll enable them to create playful and tactile work that adds dimensions to everything from campaigns to book designs, packaging and beyond."

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The Ultimate Guide to Writing an eBook

Inkbot Design

The Ultimate Guide to Writing an eBook The written word has taken a dynamic turn in the digital era of information and knowledge-sharing. It has breached the confines of physical pages, traversed the digital frontier, and morphed into a format that's as accessible as it is innovative – the eBook.

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Design for Print vs Web: Key Differences and Considerations

Inkbot Design

The print design traces its origins to Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press in the 15th century, which allowed the mass production of books and pamphlets. The invention of HTML and the web browser in the 1990s brought design into the digital world. This remained the dominant media format for centuries.

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