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Anniversary book from Semi Permanent is a 20-year time capsule of stunning creativity

Creative Boom

Self-tasked with a brief to "always be more generous", the book is, says Murray, a new iteration of Semi Permanent fostering creativity in all its disciplines at a global scale, following large-scale projects for Tokyo 2020, Tourism Portugal, the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture, Google, Dropbox, Gucci, Nike, and more.

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The Top 10 Fonts of All Time

Inkbot Design

The Top 10 Fonts of All Time Ranked Typography is a captivating art form that can subtly yet profoundly influence how we interpret and interact with the written word. From elegant serifs to sleek sans-serifs, different fonts' styles, weights, and personalities evoke emotions and shape perceptions.

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Adam Pendleton’s Radical Typography as Protest

Eye on Design

On view through January at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition occupies the institution’s dramatic hundred-foot-tall atrium. The exhibition as a whole is partially motivated by a homophobic insult Pendleton endured—“Oh, you’re such a queen.” A nearly 300-page book, Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? Who Is Queen?

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Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann

Fonts in Use

. Akzidenz-Grotesk is not only used throughout the book, from the cover to the captions. It’s also featured in numerous of the depicted examples, some of which were covered in previous posts on Fonts In Use. The drawing in advertising Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book.

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Aldus Manutius & the Paperback

Thinking Design

His work in developing the roman typeface devised for a 1496 book by the humanist scholar Pietro Bembo — the inspiration for the modern font Bembo, still treasured by book designers for its grace and readability. Although books were popular and in demand Manutius' finances were often unstable. 26, 2015.

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Interview with Alessia Mazzarella, Co-Founder and Designer at Typeland

Shillington

After falling in love with designing typefaces on her degree, Alessia Mazzarella embarked on a Master’s in Typeface Design where she met her partner Vaibhav Singh and the rest, as they say, is history. The pair founded Typeland , a design studio specialising in typeface design. What’s his design background?

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

The Sustainabilitist Principles started out as the books on my desk, I was wondering where “sustainable designing” lay within them… mapping connections between ideas… writing about repeating principles… the interconnections over time and space of similar ideals… how to clarify access to the ideas for the next designer.