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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

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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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. In my home there were not a lot of books. When I got my first books at my childhood primary school, it was a whole new world,” he says. Photo by George Kafka.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 How did the Middle Ages use signs and signifiers for communication?

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. It was so violently trendy that it almost seems to be parodying a teen book adaptation movie of a spy agency, if I say so myself. Could that have been the case?

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Rebranding a Company: 7 Things Your Boss Wants to Know (Updated June 2021)

Canny

There’ll be questions from your boss, your company directors and even the general public. If you run a small cafe that understands its demographic, there’s a high chance that you might only need help creating a new logo, printed goods such as menus, and a shop sign. Are there ads booked in around the internet?

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

The internal project pages of her illustrator website provide a more in-depth showcase of her works, ranging from editorial illustration, to book covers, and even illustrated products like jigsaw puzzles. He’s also illustrated many book covers, and is the author of a children’s seek-and-find book series. Brian Cronin.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

I came to Ebner’s work through her book The Sun as Error , a collaboration with Dexter Sinister , which can also be found on the shelves of more than a few designers I know. in matte text that disappears and reappears with changing light on the mirrored surface, the background reflecting the public space surrounding it.

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