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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. The book has an air of spontaneity.

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Design Case Study: The Wheelers Print and Art Direction with Shillington Teacher Tim King

Shillington

It all started off as a curious discovery exercise (like how most of my side projects begin), that soon lead into a 5 month book design journey. My deep love for books, their design and contents, has always been strong, but designing a book, rather than just consuming one, is a totally different ball game.

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Today’s Design Is Shaped by Likes. And That’s a Problem

Eye on Design

The primary technique used by designers in these spaces is to simply remix the dominant patterns and trends created by popular tech companies, ensuring their work appears as stylistically sophisticated and elegant as the work they’re emulating, regardless of what kind of product they’re designing and for whom.