Tag: books
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Digital Print. A Bigger Spectrum.
A Bigger Spectrum is a book by Silas Amos that looks at how top brands are using digital print to increase sales.
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Logo Design Love in Spanish
A huge thanks to Madrid-based publisher Grupo Anaya for buying the translation rights for Logo Design Love.
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The Geometry of Type
A lovely typographic primer by Stephen Coles, with a foreword from Erik Spiekermann.
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The Fortune Cookie Principle
Bernadette Jiwa has released her new book, The Fortune Cookie Principle: The 20 keys to a great brand story and why your business needs one. Here’s an excerpt.
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Popular Lies About Graphic Design
An attempt to debunk the various misconceptions, half truths and, in some cases, outright lies which permeate the industry of design.
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Creative Penguin book covers
These cover designs for Penguin Education are great. Juniors, cover design by: Omnific/Philip Thompson. Personality, design by: Omnific/George Mayhew. Half Way There, design by: Omnific/Martin Causer. Ageing, design by: Omnific/Derek Birdsall. Males & Females, design by: Omnific/Derek Birdsall. Courtesy of avid Penguin collector Richard Weston. You can view Richard’s complete series of covers in the…
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When designing a book cover…
…even if it’s likely to be a one-off, it can a good idea (and potentially easier to sell to a client or publisher) to treat the cover design like the first in a series, because you never know where it might lead. A few cover collections I like (some more obviously pre-planned than others). By…
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Penguin, in Champions of Design
Excerpted from Champions of Design, the paperback by Silas Amos of Jones Knowles Ritchie, featuring on one of the 25 brands from the book. Given its beloved status as a British institution to rival the BBC, it’s worth remembering what a revolutionary idea Penguin originally was. The company’s cheap but well-made, well-designed books found a…
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Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Debbie Millman’s new book Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits is an engaging collection of dialogues between Debbie and different leaders in the field.
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Arwey notebooks
Any of the notebooks from Arwey would make a great designer gift. The mailman delivered these two.