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Debbie Millman explores why design matters in an upcoming new book

Creative Boom

Since 2005 she has been the host of Design Matters, a podcast where she talks to leading figures in the creative industry to learn what makes them tick and how they've forged a career in this sometimes turbulent vocation. If you're at all plugged into the creative world, then the name Debbie Millman will likely need little introduction.

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Big Issue Group gets a progressive and cohesive rebrand courtesy of JKR

Creative Boom

From our work in the social investment sector through Big Issue Invest, supporting more than 500 social enterprises since 2005, to new partnerships such as launching a fleet of Big Issue eBikes in Bristol to create jobs in local communities for marginalised people. Our new five-year strategy brings all our work together.

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The Art of Letters celebrates the “relative absurdity” of the alphabet

Creative Review

Art of Letters is published by Formist Editions, priced $90; formisteditions.co. “Viewed here without their functional intention of scale, alignment, spacing, style or language, they transform into something else – something other, without their usual meaning, or perhaps just a different meaning,” writes Gowing.

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Mohamed Bourouissa’s carefully staged view of French suburbs

Creative Review

Though it is being published for the first time in print, the series was originally made between 2005 and 2008, and is often described within the context of the French riots at the beginning of this period, which followed the death of two boys, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, in a power station while avoiding the police.

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Café Royal Books: 15 years of documenting the UK

Creative Review

Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house that specialises in limited edition photographic books that focus on British documentary photography. Started in 2005 by Craig Atkinson, it began as an antidote to the work he’d been creating himself as an artist. “I’m a control freak!

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The Top 10 Best Free Fonts Designers Will Love in 2022

We And The Color

Nagoda is a free sans serif font designed and published by the Bagerich Type Foundry. Its regular style was Friedrich Althausen’s first type designing attempt, which has been published in 2005 under a Creative-Commons-License. You can use this font family for both print and screen design. Free Download.

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Graphic Design Books Every Designer Should Read in 2020

Noupe

If you are looking to have a career in this field, you definitely should read this amazing work that was published in 2005, but re-issued in 2012 by Adrian Shaughnessy. Originally an essay that was published in 1947, it became the book we know today in 1970. Image Source. Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand. Image Source.