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8 Female Graphic Designers That’ll Rock Your Socks Off

Just Creative

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. While she’s been known to do more traditional design, it’s her post-feminist comic stylings that will grab and hold your attention.

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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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15+ Best Design Thinking Books to Read

Inkbot Design

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.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Core design principles Concepts of visual organisation and composition Creative problem-solving processes Graphic design history Ideal for beginners yet insightful for experienced designers, Graphic Design Theory helps cement core graphic design knowledge. Sale The Design of Everyday Things Donald A.

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Top 10 Best Logo Design Books for Designers

Inkbot Design

Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$17.90 $62.10 Abundant visual examples and case studies reveal how successful logos come to life.

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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

The bright, nebulous style has become so pervasive that folks outside the design community have commented on its prevalence, and writers in myriad publications have reported on various iterations of it. Oftentimes, there’s an inherent tension between the designer working on a cover and the team marketing it.

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Chapman & Wilder Create Cross-Continental Design Studio

Spine Magazine

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.