I’m a sucker for a nice looking book cover design. If you share my passion, you might enjoy perusing this roundup of some of the best book covers from MyDesignShop.com.
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6 Exquisite Design Book Covers from MyDesignShop
Fingerprint No. 2
The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design
By Chen Design Associates
Fingerprint No. 2 reflects the evolution of those ideas. In this second volume you’ll still find plenty of boutique projects, as well as those created entirely without the aide of computer technology. But you’ll also discover how designers are beginning to incorporate the two aethetics – handmade and digital – in order to best communicate their message.
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Self-Portrait as Your Traitor
by Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman’s illustrated essays and visual poems are part philosophy, part art, part deeply personal memoir exposing the universal triumphs and tribulations of being human. Her hand-lettered typography – sometimes tender, sometimes gritty, always breathtaking in its visceral candor – makes Self Portrait as Your Traitor a moving masterpiece of a singular art form that speaks to our deepest longings for beauty, honesty, and the ineffable magic of what it means to live.
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An Illustrated Journey
Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
By Danny Gregory
Discover the artistic ideas behind the art journal pages of more than 40 famous and up-and-coming artists. Danny Gregory provides you with insights into private travel journals, helping you find artistic inspiration of your own. These art journal ideas are inspiring, creative, and fun to read.
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Typography for the People
Hand-Painted Signs from Around the World
By Daniel Bellon & Klaus Bellon
Vernacular messages are ubiquitous, and that very fact makes them hard to notice. But if you really look, you’ll begin to see plain-talking, hand-crafted and hand-lettered messages everywhere. Look for them on side streets and bulletin boards. There you can see the vernacular messages of the person having a garage sale, the business owner, or the kid who’s lost a pet. See a broad variety of hand-painted signs in this book.
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Playing with Graphic Style
Creating a Design Voice in 50 Exercises
By Steven Heller
Boost your confidence in your personal and professional work with Playing with Graphic Style by Steven Heller. With the 50 exercises included, discover your design voice by exploring the differences between personal, universal, historical, contemporary, and one-of-a-kind design styles. Find out how concepts like lettering, type, and typography have the tendency to define style, and develop an awareness and sensitivity to type styles, forms, and type choices. Explore graphic design fundamentals in a creative, fun, and interactive way, and discover which design styles suit you best!
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Color Inspirations
More than 3,000 Innovative Color Palette Ideas
By Darius A. Monsef IV
Color Inspirations is a collection of over 3000 gorgeous color palette ideas from the award winning website/community COLOURlovers.com. They’ve compiled the best of the best palettes and put them in this book to live on in gorgeous print. They’ve also put them into a CD so you can quickly download any color palette idea you like straight into whatever design program you use!
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