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Milton Glaser: Designing a Cultural Revolution

Inkbot Design

Created in 1977, the New York State Department of Commerce commissioned this brilliantly simple design to boost tourism. The vibrant, swirling colours and patterns embodied the counterculture spirit of the 1960s. Glaser designed the iconic “I ❤ NY” logo that boosted tourism and optimism.

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9 Graphic Design Styles to Integrate Within Your Designs

Shillington

Art Deco Art Deco is a form of design, visual arts and architecture which came to prominence as a symbol of luxury, wealth and sophistication in challenge to the austere influence of World War I. Of its era, Art Deco became a popular style utilised for advertising. Try it and see what you find.

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Graphic Design Styles: The Ultimate Guide

Shillington

Art Deco is a form of design, visual arts and architecture which came to prominence as a symbol of luxury, wealth and sophistication in challenge to the austere influence of World War I. Of its era, Art Deco became a popular style utilised for advertising. Bold, heavy weighted outlines. Hand drawn and coloured.

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Inside “Abstract”

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Biographies of creative people are notorious for slipping into the shopworn pattern of lionizing The Great Man, a lazy cliché that shouldn’t have survived into even the last century. Anyone hoping to document typeface design learns quickly that behind this wonderful visual art are almost no visuals worth capturing.