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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

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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. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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Soirée Fantastique

Fonts in Use

Conceived and designed by Pierre Pané-Farré , the book won the Gold Medal in the competition Best Book Design from all over the World and also was awarded at the Walter Tiemann Prize 2018. For the book typography, Pané-Farré combined three typefaces. Photo: Florian Hardwig.

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25 Exciting Female Creatives to Follow This International Women’s Day

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We’re big fans of Faride Mereb, the award-winning book designer, researcher and editor with over ten years of experience in design. “Having Caribbean and Middle eastern heritage and a profound love of books has deeply influenced my work, giving it a specific hybrid nature,” she states on her website.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

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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.