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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. As Nolan developed the typeface, it quickly became more personal and evolved into the designer's own take on the grotesque genre.

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How research builds the designer

UX Collective

Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels The practice of design has been around since 2.5 The central message of the book Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini is that nowadays, everyone designs, actively playing a role in devising strategies to make their lives, companies, societies better. 2015, August 17).

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Jinhee Han has a love for Risograph and complex layouts

Creative Review

Currently living in Brussels, Korean book designer and illustrator Jinhee Han’s love of design was first sparked when working for an independent bookshop in Seoul called The Book Society. “That was the first time I touched art books and truly appreciated the beauty of books,” Han says.

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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

The guiding principle of “ like that book but different ” cover design has existed for decades. In The Look of the Book , Peter Mendelsund and David Alworth’s 2020 monograph, the authors call this mutative style “the interchangeable, big-type, colorful cover.” The “Big Book Look.”

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Top 10 Best Books for Logo Designers

Inkbot Design

Whether you're a professional designer or a business owner who wants to create a memorable brand identity, this book is worth checking out. Buy on Amazon It's a massive compilation of over 1,300 designs that are organised into 75 different categories based on their visual form. This comprehensive volume covers much ground.

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10 Typefaces That Changed the World

Tuts Plus

German printer Johannes Gutenberg invented the first mechanical moving type in 1439, with the chunky, Gothic letterforms of blackletter being used to print Bibles, pamphlets, and manuscripts. . 30 Best Blackletter and Gothic Fonts for Designers We’re celebrating all things German here at Envato Tuts+ this week. 07 Jan 2015.

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The 15 Best Web Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

First published in 1992, The Elements of Typographic Style remains the gold standard reference for doing professional-grade typography for both print and web. Bringhurst writes engagingly with reverence for design tradition and openness to modern practices. The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0: