Spine Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Luke Bird is a graphic designer specialising in book design, branding, food packaging and limited edition packaging for music and books. Since 2018, I’ve been designing a sort of ‘standalone series’ for Granta in the UK, called Granta Editions.

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Patterns Book Design Fine Art Art 78

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 10, 2024

InDesign can handle any length of books and offers rock-solid file packaging features for manageable book project file sizes. Packaging & Labels Vibrant product packaging, retail tags and food or drink labels involve complex illustrative elements like custom fonts, mascots, patterns and shapes.

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Illustration Illustrator Vectors Adobe 75

Design Wizard

AUGUST 8, 2019

However, before we get into how you can create geometric designs , it’s important to know exactly what they are. At its core, geometric design is based on shapes. Circles, triangles, squares, rectangles and many other shapes often combine to form beautifully intricate patterns. Edit in Design Wizard. Go Monochrome.

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Patterns Art Theme Graphic Design 122

Eye on Design

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Herbert Bayer’s name is perhaps most closely associated with the Bauhaus—he was a student at the school and later a teacher of advertising and typography until it closed in 1928—but he had a prolific and diverse career up until he died. He researched atlases, wrote and edited the text and created thousands of infographics. Figures 07–10).

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Infographics Graphic Arts and Crafts Advertising 145

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. To help, I've compiled this list of the 37 best design books covering various specialities – from typography and layout to UX and web design.

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Publication Graphic Design Publishing Publishing 52

Creative Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Currently living in Brussels, Korean book designer and illustrator Jinhee Han’s love of design was first sparked when working for an independent bookshop in Seoul called The Book Society. “That was the first time I touched art books and truly appreciated the beauty of books,” Han says.

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Layout Animation Graphic Design Book Design 56

Envato Tuts+

OCTOBER 19, 2019

On the other hand, curved lines are dynamic and give energy to your design. Hand Illustrated Patterns. Elements of Design: Shape. Texture can be applied graphically through patterns, either digitally created or an image mimicking the desired pattern. The Ultimate Guide to Basic Typography. Laura Keung.

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Textures Color Layout Patterns 94

Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Buy the book. Typographic Systems of Design by Kimberley Elam. Typography is nothing if not a complex beast, tasking the designer to balance so many competing factors including hierarchy, order of reading, legibility and contrast, to name but a few. Buy the book. Typography fan? Buy the book.

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Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Publishing 140

Just Creative

JUNE 4, 2020

Included in the set are 32 Felt Layer Styles that work with just a click, stitching effect, repeat patterns and as a bonus, a high-resolution felt texture. With all of this combined, you can create designs that will be sure to stand out and just look amazing. Styles – Woody Photoshop Wooden Design Kit – $19.

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Photoshop Illustration Illustrator Textures 253

Inkbot Design

MAY 16, 2024

Several have completed associate’s or bachelor’s degrees in graphic design , industrial design, or interior architecture. These classes will teach you about colour theory, typography, sketching, and computer-aided design (CAD) software – all critical elements of designing anything from scratch.

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Portfolio Client Arts and Crafts Industrial Design 87

Creative Review

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ever-varied range of covers for new titles. There’ll be some catching up to do in 2021, that’s for sure.

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Publishing Publishing Shop Sign Book Design 139

Spine Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Alice Laurent is a graphic designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland who specialises in book design. Here she takes us through her design process for Ghosted. So my brain wasn’t too clogged-up with book references or conventions to follow. The brief for Ghosted was the kind you wish you’d get more often.

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Fonts Illustration Illustrator Book Design 59

Spine Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Cornell University Press Designer: Phil Pascuzzo Art Director: Scott Levine Full Disclosure: Phill Pascuzzo is one of my all-time favorite book designers. He has such a unique range, from conceptual to illustrative, and has a perfect handle on spacial relationships and typography. I love how Americana this cover feels!

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Art Color Vectors Typography 75

Shillington

MAY 6, 2020

Within the design of the cover a face is camouflaged alongside the number 10 in reference to Spectrums anniversary. Cabaret , Gold in Typography 2020, Silver in Mix Media/Moving Image 2020, Silver in Promotional Materials 2020, Silver in Branding 2020 Awards. ” Anthony Wood, Global Managing Director.

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Magazine Travel Brand Branding 69

UX Collective

MARCH 14, 2022

App icon design, subconscious, and typography… WTF? This subconscious attraction toward an app can happen for many reasons, and the design of the icon is a large part of that. Because smartphones are interesting and newish-medium for this type of design it creates a new set of dynamics that need to be understood.

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Color Brand Branding Typography 106

Shillington

MAY 10, 2021

The patterns and colors used across the packaging and branding represent the vibrant textures and colors of fruit and vegetables.” BelCham—Centennial history book , Silver in Book Design 2021. Invisible Cage , Silver in Book Design 2021. Amulet Whiskey , Silver in Packaging Design 2021.

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Arts and Crafts Graphic Design Brand Branding 98

Inkbot Design

AUGUST 22, 2023

Fundamental artistic movements like the Swiss Style of the 1950s and punk rock-inspired grunge typography of the 1990s revealed graphic design's power to challenge creative norms and capture the prevailing zeitgeist. Post World War II, graphic design mirrored profound societal shifts.

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Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Internet and Software Development 76

Eye on Design

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He hopes that his new book and accompanying exhibition , Reversing Into the Future , will “ spur a reappraisal of both the music and the graphics.” As Krivine points out, while the type styles found on the album covers are multifarious, new wave graphics are united by an “emphasis on text—a fascination and fetishization of typography.”.

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Graphic Graphic Design Color Art 144

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. Typography. The Ultimate Guide to Basic Typography Learn the essential terms in the world of typography. Typography. Typography.

Fonts 75

Fonts Internet and Software Development Arts and Crafts Typography 75

Shillington

MARCH 8, 2021

One of Shillington’s Teachers for our Online course , Maaya Lad is a creative designer whose inspiration stems from her Indian heritage—something apparent in her work, too. We’re big fans of Faride Mereb, the award-winning book designer, researcher and editor with over ten years of experience in design.

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Arts and Crafts Graphic Design Freelance Freelance 145

Eye on Design

AUGUST 9, 2022

John Updike’s notes on Chip Kidd’s jacket design for The Afterlife and other stories , 1994. Image courtesy Chip Kidd, originally published in Chip Kidd: Book One. Many of the covers Updike designed and directed are just kind of boring—stuffy, literal, and formulaic— but the Rabbit covers are iconic examples of American modernist form.

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Print Art Publishing Publishing 76

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

JULY 11, 2017

So neither typography nor calligraphy had the right tone. While the book was inherently entertaining, it was also going to be a dictionary, and needed to present as such. This conversation about tone echoed many of the open questions I had about my wedding invitations, and what sort of typography might be at once casual and serious.

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Typography Fonts Presentation Artist 60

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

I first encountered Harry’s name on A View of Early Typography Up To About 1600 , a small book that collects the series of insightful lectures he delivered at Oxford University in 1968.

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Arts and Crafts Typography Print Book Design 40