Spine Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2020

Book cover designers Cherie Chapman and Eric Wilder have joined forces to create Chapman & Wilder, a new studio that spans specialties and, well, the Atlantic. Chapman explains that she became aware of Wilder for his work as Editor-In-Chief of Spine Magazine, a primarily online publication that covers the best in book design.

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Spine Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Here she tells us about her process for designing The Appointment. In book publishing, there are certain genres or themes that repeat year after year. As cover designers, we know what type of imagery those books require and the challenge lies in reinventing a familiar look to make it feel fresh and new.

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Spine Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Natasha MacKenzie (aka miss nat mack) is a coffee-addicted book designer primarily based out of Manchester. With a professional background in marketing, branding and book design, she helps authors and publishers across the globe bring their stories to life! View fullsize. View fullsize. View fullsize.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 9, 2023

1 – The Design Thinking Playbook Sale Bestseller No. Buy on Amazon First off, let's talk about what design thinking is all about. Buy on Amazon The book results from extensive international research involving multinationals, governments, and non-profits. Look no further than Graphic Design Thinking by Ellen Lupton.

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“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

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A Deep Dive into How to Create Engaging + Accessible Text Layouts We all agree that we are besieged by content and that we have less time to read it all. Are Authors, Editors, and Publishers willing to invest in ensuring their content is accessible to everyone by writing plainly and using points of entry? The net result?

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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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Fonts in Use

APRIL 28, 2023

He worked on the book while serving as professor of graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, or School of Applied Arts, a position he held from 1957 to 1960. It was first published in 1961 by Verlag Arthur Niggli , Teufen AR, Switzerland. Alec Tiranti published it in the United Kingdom. The Print Arkive.

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Abduzeedo

MARCH 26, 2021

A typographic inspired ‘variorum’ edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’ that highlights all the linguistic changes Charles Darwin introduced to the book since its first publication in 1859, by presenting them alongside the complete sixth and final edition of the book later published in 1872. abduzeedo 03.26.21 cm in size.

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Tuts Plus

JULY 23, 2020

What You'll Be Creating In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to make a fairy-tale book cover with a vintage-inspired look. Vintage-style covers are big news in publishing right now, and clothbound covers are enjoying a well-deserved resurgence. How Should I Plan My Cover Design? Your front cover design is finished—great work!

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Used Book in Good Condition Ingledew, John (Author) English (Publication Language) 224 Pages – 10/19/2011 (Publication Date) – Laurence King Publishing (Publisher). McAlhone, Beryl (Author) English (Publication Language) 240 Pages – 08/13/1998 (Publication Date) – Phaidon Press (Publisher).

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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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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

1 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) −$9.00 $36.00 Sale Bestseller No. Sale Bestseller No. Sale Bestseller No.

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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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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

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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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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crowdspring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

So, when I’m browsing, I can easily pick out a book in one of my preferred genres without even reading the title. So, when searching for book cover design ideas, start by browsing other popular books in your genre. What colors, layouts, fonts, and graphic elements are common in that genre?

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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. Grid Based Layout.

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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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Creative Review

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While most covers are fairly easy to credit, particularly if shared by the designer, or added to their personal website, a few usually remain elusive for a time. More than a minor inconvenience for me, this is indicative of a wider problem for book cover designers. Book publishers! Art Direction: Helen Yentus.

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Inspiration Feed

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you’re a graphic designer or typographer, intimate understanding of typography is vital for your success. Today we collected must read books for passionate… The post 15 Enlightening Books for Typography Enthusiasts appeared first on Inspirationfeed.

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Fonts in Use

MARCH 16, 2019

Known as the Bolted Book because of its signature binding using two industrial bolts, Depero Futurista was conceived as a showcase and “portable museum” for the work of Italian Futurist artist Fortunato Depero (1892–1960). Today it’s recognized as the first modern-day artist’s book.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Bauhaus design school played a pivotal role, promoting clean, modernist design integrated with function. Pioneering designers like El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy elevated typography and page layout into an art form. Post World War II, graphic design mirrored profound societal shifts.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann. First published in 2009, this book was updated in late 2017 to incorporate emerging trends and technologies.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 4, 2022

: A Documentary of Student Protest publishes results from the campus study alongside news coverage, quotes from students, and agitprop artwork. compared with the original book dummy for Medium is the Massage , by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. Collection of Letterform Archive.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Hardcover Book Carroll, Ryder (Author) English (Publication Language) 320 Pages – 10/23/2018 (Publication Date) – Portfolio (Publisher). To begin, create a layout for your bullet journal. −$11.01. $14.99. Buy on Amazon. How Does the Bullet Journal Work? Using a bullet journal is a simple task.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sample spread from the book design for Be Gay Do Crime The image samples of Be Gay Do Crime are an editorial example of how we can begin to introduce genderfluidity into design work. In combining an expressive serif, monospaced type, and a handwritten font, the typography itself is an uncommon showcase.

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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. In tribute to Germanic style, here you’ll find 30 amazing Gothic and blackletter fonts. Grace Fussell. 10 Aug 2018. Grace Fussell. 27 May 2019. Typography.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Indeed, she adds that many of the more classical interpretations of flowers paved the way for more modern usages — illuminated manuscripts, intricately decorated, often Christian scriptures popularised between 500 and 1600 AD are a precursor to our modern book design tactics, for example. ” Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1970. .

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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

Aarron Walter, in his book “ Designing for Emotion ,” takes a similar approach and describes a hierarchy of user needs. For example, a dashboard designed for a data analyst may be different from one designed for a marketing professional, as they may have different preferences in terms of color, layout, and overall aesthetics.

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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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Spine Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

You can view all of the stunning designs here: design.up.hcommons.org. This particular design competition is near and dear to my heart, not only because of my affinity for and connection to the University Press community but also because of its influence on my own work. That all-black is a risky choice if you don't trust your printers!

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

She has been examining the crit’s efficacy — and relevance — since publishing the article “Private Reactions to Public Criticism” in the Journal of Architectural Education in 1987; her extensive research culminated in the book Design Juries on Trial: The Renaissance of the Design Studio (1991).

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