Scandinavian Graphic Design
Category: Books,
Still on the Scandinavian theme, this book was a recent purchase with a birthday gift card (thanks, Jules!) and remains a favourite. Full of all that sexy design work that those Northern Eu...
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twitterNicholas Jones
Category: Art, Books,
I'm one of those people who silently fumes when I get a loaned book back from a friend and pages have been dog-eared. Have some of these people not heard of bookmarks?! So I've had to put my overly book-protective nature aside for a bit to fully appreciate the beauty of what Nicholas Jones does to various precious tomes. Simply...It's mine!
Category: Books,
Ordered some time ago, my face LIT UP when I saw this arrive today! Seriously, one of the greatest designers ever to have graced this planet. This, for sure, is my new favourite design book. Available at Unit Editions. ...
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Book Cover Lover
Category: Books, Design / Packaging, Design / Print, Design / Publishing, Resources / Reference,
And honestly, what's a more appropriate title for a Flickr feed devoted to the best graphic covers? Book Cover Lover is a truly incredible set, colour-coded to perfection and with design so beautiful it'll make publishing devotees go weak at the knees. Take a meander through and be inspi...
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Typographic Study: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Category: Design / Print, Design / Typography,
An exploration of typographic solutions for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by the talented lads at iamalwayshungry. ...Jenny Volvovski: From Cover to Cover
Category: Design / Print, Illustration,
Designers' personal projects are so damn inspiring. I love seeing what sparks an individual's creativity. From Cover to Cover is a fantastic project from Jenny Volvovski (one third of the creative team at ALSO); she is redesigning the covers of books as she fini...
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Takeo Takei - Aesop's Fables
Category: Books, Illustration,
Beautifully simple lines drawings from Japanese artist Takeo Takei. These were created for a 1925 edition of Aesop's Fables. Can you imagine being a kid and getting to look at these beauties as your mum or dad read to you out loud? My mind would've run riot. ...
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What is the future of design?
Category: Books, Designers/Studios, Events/Exhibitions,
Last week I was fortunate enough to see Frank Chimero speak at the Portable event at Brisbane's Edge. It was an inspiring afternoon where questions were asked of designers about the way we work and why we do things? Drawing on findings from his book, The Shape of Design, Frank asked us 'What does it mean to b...
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The Copy Book
Category: Advertising, Books, Design / Print, Design / Publishing,
A lovely find on thisiscollate — what looks like it'd be a really interesting read on the art of copy writing. This is an updated edition of a book originally published by D&AD in 1995, and this time around is a joint project with ...
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Poemotion / Takahiro Kurashima
Category: Animation / Motion Graphics, Art, Books,
Beautiful book concept by Takahiro Kurashima ...
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