“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

What is the Purpose of a Book Cover? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages. According to G.

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Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK COVER? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages. According to G.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In no particular order, the following are what I would regard as the best Graphic Design books I would recommend to both creative students and professional designers alike. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. −$26.20. −$35.05. Buy on Amazon. $89.13.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

The book resonates with a core principle that every design decision should prioritise user convenience, ensuring visitors can intuitively discern the path forward without resorting to laborious mental gymnastics. Beyond merely presenting the importance of simplicity, Krug illuminates the path towards achieving it.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Both navigating a sweet spot between formality and distinctiveness, these fonts would work well together in adding a dash of visual interest to an otherwise highly readable text-based layout. Inspired by the hand lettering of 20th-century book designer and calligrapher Oscar Ogg, Ogg captures a unique mix of calligraphic and typographic form.

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UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2023

(Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sale Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) Krug, Steve (Author) English (Publication Language) 216 Pages – 12/24/2013 (Publication Date) – New Riders (Publisher) −$11.41 $33.59 The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0:

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UX Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

.” — Steve Krug “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug was one of the first reading materials recommended to me when I started as a Product Designer. While wireframing a new product or layout, I’d often asked myself “Do Icons need accompanying text?”. If users don’t know what a component does, what’s the point in it?

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 11, 2023

Dive into this curated collection and unlock your potential as a logo designer. Buy on Amazon So, have you heard of Logo Design Love? It's a fantastic book that provides a comprehensive guide to creating a distinctive brand identity from scratch.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Conclusion It is important to keep your user happy at each point, so make sure you consider them and their feelings while designing your form and not just you or your business needs/goals. If you’d like to study this further, a great place to begin is in the book, Designing UX: Forms by Jessica Enders.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for sustainable graphic design? Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

But if you haven't taken the plunge, there's no time like the present. It's easy to start, and there are plenty of different books and apps to choose from, depending on what works best for your lifestyle. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future. Sale Bestseller No. $14.99.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A major presence in contemporary German graphic design, Andreas Uebele trained as an architect, a thread that continues to present itself in much of his work. He shares analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media. Buy the book.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Instead of falling back on norms and universal rules, designing for the pluriverse gives us the opportunity to move beyond the gender binary into a more sophisticated space. Due to the inherently queer nature of the project, I was highly experimental with the combinations of imagery, illustration, typography, and layout.

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Tuts Plus

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A Brief History of Type Text is never simply text—typography, or the way type is arranged on a layout, has a huge influence over the visual impact of a message, setting the tone and. A 2015 survey by typographer Sarah Hyndman concluded that Didot was considered to be the most expensive-looking in the selection presented to 368 people. .

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 10, 2024

InDesign vs Illustrator: Which Design Software Should You Use? In graphic design and publishing, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator are two of the most popular software tools. Released in 1999, InDesign built upon Adobe's previous publishing software, PageMaker, to become their next-generation publishing solution.

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UX Collective

MARCH 20, 2023

Emotional design is not just about making things look pretty. It’s about creating a design that speaks to the user’s emotions and motivations, making them feel understood and valued. A well-designed dashboard not only presents data in a clear and meaningful way, but it also creates a positive and engaging experience for the user.

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Eye on Design

JUNE 16, 2022

Morgan Crowcroft-Brown is the designer and production manager (or “production manager and designer,” she tells me. Because I’m uncomfortable calling myself a designer”) for MACK , the London-based photography publisher. You’re not noticing any of the design decisions, like the paper stock or fancy page numbers.

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Creative Review

JUNE 3, 2021

“We were learning about layout composition and it struck me that composition could be applied to the crappy digital snapshots I had been taking for fun,” he remembers. “Luckily, my husband is and helps me out with some of the more math-y part of photography, Photoshop and book design,” he says.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The zine/self-help manual/comic book/manifesto/survival guide covers theory, history, work and interviews to create this absolutely essential read. Buy the book. The Package Design Book. Published in English, French and German, The Package Design Book is any packaging designer’s bible.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Whether it’s called a crit, a jury or a review, the practice is almost universal: At the designated time, everyone falls into their role like a carefully choreographed performance. The presenter holds forth, the jury responds, rinse and repeat. Their peers sit behind the jury, watching and listening as the production unfolds.

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