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How to Design a Vintage Book Cover

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to make a fairy-tale book cover with a vintage-inspired look. Vintage-style covers are big news in publishing right now, and clothbound covers are enjoying a well-deserved resurgence. What You Will Learn in This Fairy-Tale Book Cover Design Tutorial.

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for sustainable graphic design? Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”

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InDesign vs Illustrator: Which Design Software Should You Use?

Inkbot Design

InDesign vs Illustrator: Which Design Software Should You Use? In graphic design and publishing, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator are two of the most popular software tools. Released in 1999, InDesign built upon Adobe's previous publishing software, PageMaker, to become their next-generation publishing solution.

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Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety

Smashing Magazine Graphics

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons written by Vitaly Friedman. Drew McLellan: She’s the founder of The Inclusive Safety Project, an author of the book, Designed For Safety, which launches this month from A Book Apart. Design For Safety is published abookapart.com and is available now. Transcript.