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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

It uses visuals, branding, typography, colour palettes , and other styling cues to tap into consumer memories and associations with previous decades. Incorporating nostalgic fonts and typography Chunky, whimsical fonts that mimic sign painting or old typewriter print evoke nostalgia. What is Retro Packaging Design?

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The best book cover designs of 2020

Creative Review

But with the intermittent openings of bookshops and libraries, the various ways in which art direction, design and typography can introduce readers to a particular book have been made to work even harder — as part of an online book browsing experience that, in lockdown, has become more the norm than ever.

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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. Each time I’m greeted with fresh coffee and pastries and each time I glimpse something on the walls, in the stacks, or on the tables that I missed the time before.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Logos from this era incorporated floral patterns, curved typography, and intricate illustrations. During the Bauhaus movement, Logo design focused on minimalist forms, geometric shapes, and clean typography. Typography is another psychological element in logo design.

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

Eye on Design

As Julia Born puts it much better in an interview with the Gradient : “ [Ebner] fascinates many graphic designers because she manages to capture and magically bring together typography, poetry, philosophy, politics, language, and aspects of the vernacular.” Fiona Banner replied in kind to a question about following the rules of typography. “I

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