Design Week

MARCH 3, 2021

Hippu by Oili Tanninen published by Tate, 2014. Courtesy of Tate Publishing “My pick is Hippu by Finnish author-illustrator Oili Tanninen. I love this short little book. Despite being over 50 years old, the design still feels fresh. “It’s now my son’s favourite book too.

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Shillington

APRIL 19, 2022

Paul Hallam studied graphic design with a major in illustration at uni, before diverging his career into ministry work shortly after. Fortunately, it re-sparked his creative interest and Paul began to pursue his design journey again! What made our design course stand out from the rest? Why Shillington?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

And most recently, the agency partnered with Noma on a lushly designed art book, Noma 2.0: Credit: Noma / Gretel Credit: Noma / Gretel Credit: Noma / Gretel Gretel partnered with Noma and Artisan Publishers, leading the art direction and design of the book. The book as an object has a real presence.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 9, 2023

15+ Best Design Thinking Books to Read Design thinking is more than just a buzzword in today's fast-paced world. And what better way to explore this fascinating subject than by diving into some of the best design thinking books out there? 1 – The Design Thinking Playbook Sale Bestseller No.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 6, 2024

Oamul Lu , an illustration artist based in China specializing in painting, digital painting and animation. He is also a frequent traveller with his sketches and illustrations being used to record the beauty of the world around him. More: Oamul Lu , Instagram , Behance Source

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Best Graphic Design Books to Buy. I recently updated one of the more popular posts on the blog entitled the best books for Logo Designers and thought a corresponding page of the best Graphic Design books could be helpful. 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design. Know Your Onions: Graphic Design.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Top 10 Best Design Books to Kickstart Your Career. Why do we need design books? You may wonder why design books matter so much for your career. After all, they are only for designers, right? Design books are for everyone. Best Design Books for Beginners. $48.49.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 28, 2023

5 Best Web Design Books for Website Development Are you an aspiring web designer looking to enhance your skills and create stunning, user-friendly websites? Or you're an experienced developer seeking fresh insights and inspiration to take your web design game to the next level. Sale Bestseller No.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 23, 2021

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch ) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. Three books that exemplify the “frappuccino unicorn” trend.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The third year of book cover designer David Pearson’s university degree at Central Saint Martins, he admits, should have been spent focusing on his degree show. “Book design is at its most fun when you’ve got something to kick against.” ” Covers for books written by George Orwell. .”

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We And The Color

JULY 9, 2021

How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, a book by graphic designer Sean Adams and published by Princeton Architectural Press. Below you can get a sneak peek of the book. How Design Makes Us Think, a book published by Princeton Architectural Press. Buy on Amazon. Buy on Amazon.

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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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Creative Review

JULY 14, 2022

Art and design publisher Counter-Print has released From Africa, the seventh book in its popular From series, which has so far brought us work from Japan, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Switzerland and South Korea. Each book is a celebration of the design culture belonging to the different countries and regions.

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Spine Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Tree Abraham is a book designer, illustrator, writer, and maker of things. So much so that she’s written a book, Cyclettes , where she documents a meaningful life only discovered and sustained through a two-wheeled lifestyle. Here she tells us about what it was like to design the covers for her own book.

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Tuts Plus

JULY 23, 2020

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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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills As a designer, expanding your knowledge is crucial for professional growth. With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. Read on for the cream of the crop regarding design literature.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But with the slowdown caused by the strike, I have experienced fewer bookings and demand in general." That's when I started shifting my work from prints, book designs and brand identities to key visuals to promote a certain play or show," he continues. "I I liked how it was more image-driven than my other work.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills Hey there, fellow UX enthusiasts and aspiring design wizards! Are you ready to level up your user experience game and advance your design skills ? We've meticulously curated a list of the five best UX books guaranteed to propel your design skills to new dimensions.

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Eye on Design

JULY 5, 2022

In 2010, graphic designer Adam Michaels was looking for a different kind of book series. He wanted to see more accessible, visual and editorially experimental books, books that were typographically and materially nuanced, research-based, and socially-driven. I Mean Me. I Mean You.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 20, 2023

4 Tips On Promoting Your Book Cover Through Design Many people think all that matters in a book are the contents. Your cover design shows what your book is about and can provide plenty of benefits that will help you in your career. Book writing services and professionals help you throughout the process.

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Eye on Design

JULY 11, 2022

This year, Breakdown Press has released an expanded anniversary edition of the futurist encyclopedia, which meticulously documents and illustrates peculiar creatures that could exist 50 million years after the extinction of the human species. one of the major publishers of encyclopedias in the 1970s. . Courtesy of Breakdown Press.

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Fonts in Use

MARCH 10, 2024

The idiosyncratic type is the perfect companion to the contemporary use of antique illustration. Huang on the design : Despite its heavy themes, I found Akbar’s novel to be insanely funny,” Huang told Literary Hub. Back jacket flaps usually include an author bio and designer credit. Photo: Stephen Coles.

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Shillington

MARCH 3, 2023

We also encourage our graphic design students and teachers to learn about the different facets of diversity and inclusion and their importance in both design history and contemporary design practices. Written and put together by seven designers: Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias (who also illustrated the book!),

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Design and Illustrations by Giovani Flores using GT Pressura It's Valentine's Day this week, a celebration of love, passion and obsession. And if there's one obsession that designers feel truly passionate about, it's typography. The company publishes retail fonts developed by the two, their staff, and outside collaborators.

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Trendland

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Wonders is a poetry book by a Montreal-based Studio Monozygote featuring a collection of poems and illustrations by a local artist Karim. With 75 original texts and 69 images, the publication was imagined as an art book but suitable to be read on the go. Words Marta Knas.

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Spine Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Michel Vrana is a graphic designer who ran his own boutique studio for ten years before deciding to go freelance in 2009 to concentrate on his passion: creating book covers. Here he talks us through his process for designing Dante’s Indiana. Central to the new book is a Dante’s Inferno theme park (in Indiana, of course!),

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 27, 2020

Thankfully, this beloved book (which was also reinterpreted as a cabaret) is redolent with vibrant vignettes by numerous writers who thoughtfully illuminate this dynamic era. This little book keeps it alive. Elizabeth Pagliacolo. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger. Kendra Jackson. Evan Pavka.

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Spine Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2020

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.

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Inspiration Feed

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you’re a graphic designer or typographer, intimate understanding of typography is vital for your success. Today we collected must read books for passionate… The post 15 Enlightening Books for Typography Enthusiasts appeared first on Inspirationfeed.

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Shillington

MARCH 25, 2020

And Belgium is known for its comic-book artists with popular titles like Tintin, Gaston, Nero and many others. The list includes book cover design, whimsical illustrations, visual identity for the arts and a campaign design for a creative awards organisation. Martens, Converse and Disney. Tim Bisschop.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

“Once you start to see them, you’ll never understand how you didn’t see them before,” writes Roman Mars in the first few pages The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design. Was there certain opportunities that only a book afforded you? Roman Mars. I wanted to break from that.

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Spine Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Natasha MacKenzie (aka miss nat mack) is a coffee-addicted book designer primarily based out of Manchester. With a professional background in marketing, branding and book design, she helps authors and publishers across the globe bring their stories to life! View fullsize. View fullsize. View fullsize.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

MAY 6, 2019

What is the Purpose of a Book Cover? The thinking on this has changed dramatically during the evolution of modern trade publishing since the 1900s. Once book jackets were intended simply to protect the valuable binding. Actually, before 1820, books were sold as unbound gathered pages.

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Eye on Design

AUGUST 29, 2022

Café Royal Books is a one-man print archive of culture, community, and social change based in Southport, UK. This impressive image-based publisher shares the best of documentary photography in weekly releases that cater to those interested in subcultures, British and Irish post-war history and more. It started in 2005.

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In comparison, we know relatively little about 20th century Belgian graphic design — despite a rich, bold history in pushing boundaries across posters, flyers and other printed ephemera, typography, editorial design, and more. A new book hopes to change all that.

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Ohn Mar Win

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Soon after I worked on the Healthy Hedonist cover ( see my last post) I was again approached by Kyle Books to illustrate another front cover. This time it was for a book about pancakes written by Sudi Pigott , and illustrations would also be needed for chapter openers. What I provided was taken to the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 23, 2023

Our journey will cover the spectrum of essential topics: from germinating a compelling idea, researching, writing, proofreading, and formatting to the final touchdown of publishing and marketing your digital masterpiece. The Rise of eBooks in the Digital Era Let's face it—the world has gone digital, and books are no exception.

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