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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2023 Update)

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That’s why Jeremiah Shoaf set up Typewolf , which shares examples of popular fonts in the wild. Given that so many typography blogs are run by type designers, it’s also refreshing to see one written, instead, by a designer who uses type in their day-to-day work. Onextrapixel Are you getting into web design?

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

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Part inspiration and part workbook, the images of hand-drawn type will inspire and excite any designer to draw and explore type. Drawing Type features real-world projects and sketchbooks of well-known type designers, including interviews about their processes. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

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He picks apart how design can convince us of a certain way of thinking, in both an overt and covert manner. Through examples, not just from graphic design but also product design, industrial design and architecture, Adams illustrates how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger or reassure us and the reasons why it does this.