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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. As a topic, wild foraging presented Hoxton Mini Press with a unique opportunity.

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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 So that stops the development of campaigns for shows that have already wrapped production." It's like this year is the year of the music industry.

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

Design Week

The annual competition was originally known as Fifty Books of the Year, and jurors focused on the “construction of the book and the printed page”, its current organiser Heather Strelecki tells Design Week. As book production expanded, so did the AIGA’s outlook. Design description).

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So You Want to Become a Designer?

Inkbot Design

Design is one of those fantastic fields with countless growth opportunities. Graphic design , UX design, industrial design, interior design… the list is endless! Besides, everything around you, objects, digital products or physical spaces, are designed by someone on purpose.

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Design minimalism: aesthetic vs function

UX Collective

Design minimalism: aesthetic vs. function How excessively stripping back your product design will render most features useless and, ultimately, waste resources and space. Or even worse —  they won’t use your product again , and tell other people not to either.

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Will advertising succumb to UX?

UX Collective

Where brands and their products and services are so heavily commoditised in a globalised, competitive marketplace, the experience is the thing that’ll resonate and keep customers coming back. UX is the face of service design. at least everything that matters?—?is is functional, reliable and usable.

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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. Urbanist by Corey Hu Urbanist is a low-contrast, geometric sans-serif inspired by modernist design. Dazzed by Displaay 8.

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