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Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner

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Her work on the illustration and lettering of book covers began with novels by Virginia Woolf, some of which were published in 2016 as a paperback series. Since then, Metsola has occasionally illustrated book covers published by Vintage/Penguin.

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Why a new book celebrating design legend Margaret Calvert deserves your support

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A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by the publishing platform Volume to create the first book dedicated to the work of designer, titled Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work. To learn more about this exciting project, we chatted with Adrian Shaughnessy, the book's editor and graphic designer, writer, educator, and publisher.

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Books About Food: Hit Instagram account launches new website that will be the 'IMDb of cookbooks'

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The idea for the project began in 2016 when Popsa design lead and feed curator Jamin Galea took a short holiday in Paris. "I An amazing collection of family recipes with anecdotal stories, which was later referenced in a collection of essays put together by Daunt books called In The Kitchen, published in 2020." Apparently not. "It

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Paul Catherall's illustrations spark a new series of modernist matchboxes

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Under a new brand called London Strike, the first of six matchboxes has been released today by Blue Crow Media , an award-winning publisher of distinctive city guide maps and more, including an ongoing celebrated series dedicated to Brutalist architecture.

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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

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Now, a new hardback book by Zupagrafika, an independent publisher, author and design studio based in Poznań, Poland, celebrates this era in style. Concrete Hong Kong joins a series of excellent books published by Zupagrafika, celebrating modernist architecture, design and photography in a unique and playful way.

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Jean Jullien's bold, graphic underwater world will awaken your inner child

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In 2016, he launched Nounou with Jae Huh, a Korea-based label producing various items, including clothing, graphic objects, rugs and dolls. He has created popular illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Guardian and recently published his first self-titled monograph with global art book publisher Phaidon.

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Order's Jesse Reed on launching your own design agency and following your creative dreams

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In 2014 he teamed up with fellow Pentagram designer Hamish Smyth to found the publishing imprint Standards Manual. Then in 2016-17, Jesse and Hamish decided to leave Pentagram and found their own design agency, Order. But being somewhat of a restless spirit, he didn't stop there. So this idea propelled itself quickly.

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