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Book Cover Breakdowns
Book cover breakdowns. Images are replaced with diagonal lines and text is replaced with bars of colour. Ongoing project since 2011. (via Readings : Jan Avendano )
When ‘It Just Works’ Doesn’t Work
Downloads, updates, logins, alerts, updates, logins, downloads… when do we ever get to just do what we came to do?
Every Book Deserves a Great Cover
Recovering the Classics Recovering the Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original covers for great works in the public domain where anyone can contribute. Why? Sadly, many of the greatest classics in the public domain are left with poorly designed or auto-generated covers that fail to capture what makes these books exciting and inspiring to us. So we invited illustrators, typographers, and designers of all stripes to create new covers for 100 of the greatest works in the public domain.
Annual Chicago Show of Typographic Allstars
Typeforce Catalogue for the Annual Chicago Show of Typographic Allstars (via Typeforce Exhibition Catalogue on Behance)
Graphic Text Readings
Graphic Text Readings This reading list offeres a survey of various different kinds of "graphic texts" in all senses of the world. The author of this reading list asks "What "graphic texts" have you encountered and might like to share with others?"
Erik Spiekermann – Putting Back the Face into Typeface
Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.
Book Companion Websites
A survey of websites designed to promote books, authors, and publishers. How are they designed? How do they work?
Links
Nokia Design Archive
Exploring unseen concepts of design and opportunities of design-driven transformation and change
Review: Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound
Lori Emerson's Reading Writing Interfaces "When computers move into people's homes, it would be most unfortunate if they were merely black boxes whose internal workings remained the exclusive province.