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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.

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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. First, he began experimenting with digital design and desktop publishing software as an early adopter of the Apple operating systems.

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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes

Colossal

In Keita Morimoto ’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. via This Isn’t Happiness ).

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$8.00 $72.00 The rise of mass media, including television, radio, and print publications, has profoundly impacted how brands reach and engage with consumers.

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

UX Collective

The term branding used over here mainly refers to the visual outputs that a company/individual would publish. Everyone could use a giggle now and then when they see a tacky shop sign seemingly made with Powerpoint. Nothing was overlooked. The amount of time to reconstruct those mottos and values is also down the drain.

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

Eye on Design

It was originally published on March 23, 2021. In her work Here on Future Earth , she employs her Cree Comic Sans in a series of photographs that show everyday scenes in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, replacing the English on shop signs and town wayfinding with Cree syllabics. How much of life is coping?”

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