Tag: Resources
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180,000 public domain images, free to download and reuse
The New York Public Library has made it possible to download out-of-copyright photos, posters, book covers, and more, in the highest resolution available. Illustration of writing brushes, 1908. “That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in…
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Fontstand launches
Fontstand is a Mac OS X app that allows you to try fonts for free or rent them by the month for desktop use.
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Printing Flaunt
Armin and Bryony of UnderConsideration have just released the second edition of Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. It’s available in print and as a single licence PDF, and Armin took time to answer a few questions about the book’s printing and packaging.
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Brand naming resources
It’s easy to think anyone can come up with a good name, but it’s more complicated than that. “An idea can come from anywhere, but getting buy in and seeing it through is tough. In fact, naming can be one of the hardest parts of a branding project.” From a naming handbook by Wolff Olins.…
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“Nobody bought the cheapest option.”
People were offered 2 kinds of beer: premium beer for $2.50 and bargain beer for $1.80. Around 80% chose the more expensive beer. Now a third beer was introduced, a super bargain beer for $1.60 in addition to the previous two. Now 80% bought the $1.80 beer and the rest $2.50 beer. Nobody bought the…
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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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Thoughts on the designer / client relationship
“If I go to see the doctor, I accept that the doctor has trained, has skill, has experience, is concentrating on one aspect of me. I’ve asked them to do that. What I don’t do is what bad graphic design clients do. I don’t lean over the doctor’s shoulder and say, ‘Could we make that…
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Why do so few designers join professional design organisations?
“You get out of it what you put in, so if you don’t go to meetings, or become involved with other members, paying the fee is pretty much useless.”