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How Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design crafted the best-illustrated lifestyle book

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Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design recently scooped the best-illustrated lifestyle book at the British Book Design and Production Awards. We caught up with the publisher to hear how it crafted a winning design. In an increasingly digital world, the value of a beautiful, well-designed book can't be underestimated.

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DMTV Milkshake: Book Designer Michael Russem on Why “Everything Is Garbage”

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This is, in fact, a defense of modern book design: “When we look at the books about the history of printing and typography, we’re only getting the greatest hits and that tends to give the idea that things were better back then. These are things we can see in all sorts of design, not just book design.

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

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"It's very important to have a good and functioning connection with the designers and art directors in order to create a cover that supports the book." Metsola has shared such a relationship with Vintage Books creative director Suzanne Dean and, more recently, Headline Publishing Group's senior book designer Yeti Lambregts.

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Anniversary book from Semi Permanent is a 20-year time capsule of stunning creativity

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Self-tasked with a brief to "always be more generous", the book is, says Murray, a new iteration of Semi Permanent fostering creativity in all its disciplines at a global scale, following large-scale projects for Tokyo 2020, Tourism Portugal, the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture, Google, Dropbox, Gucci, Nike, and more.

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AIGA's 50 best covers of the year are a celebration of the physicality of books

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First established in 1923 as the Fifty Books of the Year competition, AIGA's 50 Books | 50 Covers award has been running since 1995 and seeks to recognise and showcase excellence in book design from around the world. As ever, though, there's always room for improvement.

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Designer Faride Mereb Discusses Book Design + Archival Research

Design Milk

This session features Faride Mereb , an award-winning Venezuelan book designer, researcher, and educator who is based in New York City. through her design studio, Letra Muerta Inc., spanning book design, workshops, and time as a Latin American Collections curator for institutions.

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New and expanded Malika Favre monograph is a minimalist marvel

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"With this new expanded edition, we have added two further sections in order to reflect the widening of Malika Favre's output, and the book now also includes 'Fashion' and 'Nature' sections.

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