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“Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant”: the enduring value of book design

Design Week

” The jurors must make a selection of 50 books and 50 covers from a selection of hundreds; any book published in the past year is eligible for submission. Together and through that selection process, they might reveal answers to the secret of good book design Strelecki says. Why this year?”

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

(Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts. Welie, 2001).

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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

ARS Maquette and Copernicus Book. Designed by Angus R. Shamal and released through ARS Type in 2001, its pleasing geometrics are both super-friendly and supremely readable. Copernicus Book is a much more traditional serif that exudes authority and a sense of formality, yet still with friendly and approachable letter-shapes.

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Why are we attracted to open up certain apps?

UX Collective

The Charles Schwab logo was last designed in 2001 and it comprises of a wordmark (the full name of the brand, spelled out in all the letters). So with my eyes set on solving this design problem, I took out pen and paper and began the process. This can be attributed Charles Schwab app’s slightly outdated logo. Love it or hate it?

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. .

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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for sustainable graphic design? Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

Whether it be film, television, radio, newspaper, a book, music, digital imaging, an app or the internet a story is only as effective as one’s mastery of the medium. In 1999 MIT Press published a book of essays called “The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media”. Where might we go from here?

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