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“Many of Virginia Woolf’s earliest dust jackets were designed by her older sister and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group, the artist Vanessa Bell. “Your style is unique, because so truthful,” Woolf told her when some criticized the designs, “and therefore it upsets one completely.” Bell designed a total of 38 book covers for Hogarth Press, the publishing house Woolf founded with her husband.”

https://lithub.com/a-brief-visual-history-of-virginia-woolfs-book-covers/

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Kiros Chu’s random glyphs pull apart typographic rules to make way for illustrative experimentation

A growing side project, Toronto-based designer Kiros Chu pushes letterforms to find inspiration for further design briefs.

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Laura Simonati’s imaginary scenic drawings are a breath of fresh air on social media

Starting as a daily drawing task set by the illustrator to get over a creative slump, Laura’s drawing subconscious has created a series of calmly relatable pieces.

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Roll up roll up! La Perruque is a 1x90cm magazine publishing type specimens on print margins

Meet the minuscule typography magazine and publishing research project with a difference.

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Designers Against Coronavirus book unites Malika Favre, M/M Paris, Akatre, and more in interpreting the crisis

Featuring 272 works by artists around the world, the book is described by makers Carosello Lab as “a story of solidarity and collaboration” is raising money for the Italian Red Cross.

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Make art to help out: The anonymous account making us nostalgic for a busy restaurant

Turning to art at the beginning of quarantine during the pandemic, the artist’s practice is bringing nostalgic joy via Instagram.

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How to Stop From Falling Into a Self-Judgment Spiral

I’ve always struggled with anxiety and depression, but lately they’ve been exacerbated by compounding global crises.

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Drawn in by the machine’s infinite possibilities, the creative duo talk us through their latest contraption.

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Thisaway’s rebrand for a casting agency is inspired by scrolling credits

Kahleen Crawford Casting has worked with a wide range of directors, with recent highlights including I Hate Suzie and His Dark Materials.

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Mira Schor's Critical Annotations of the New York Times

“I felt the need to respond to the namby-pamby, weak reporting that was missing the point or diminishing the reality,” says Schor.

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Studio Frith creates Patti Smith-inspired identity for the inaugural Art Night festival

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Anger is fire for creativity — and it’s time to let it burn

We can let our rage scorch us slowly from the inside out — or we can channel it and express it in powerful and beautiful new ways, says writer and activist Soraya Chemaly.

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In a Time of Social Isolation, Mail Art Offers Invaluable Human Connection - ELEPHANT

The radical tradition of mail art, which used the postal system to distribute drawings, poetry and other texts, has seen a recent resurgence. Louise Benson speaks to the creatives who are pushing the envelope.

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“Better work and less stress”: How to form, and most importantly keep, creative habits

It’s never the wrong time to make impactful positive changes to your creative methods of working, and here are a few ways to start.

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Stone lettering and variable fonts: What can the future of typography learn from the past?

In the pursuit of pixel-perfect typography, have we lost the origins of its artistry in place of efficiency? We talk to contemporary typographers as well as stone letterers who are keeping the origins of the discipline alive, asking what is lost and gained in the movement from physical to digital.

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Addressing the Lack of Diversity in Graphic Design

An exhibition of student and faculty posters from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) sparks a larger conversation around inclusion and representation in design.

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Women’s Work

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https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/olivia-johnson-womens-work-cross-stitch-data-visualisation-illustration-240820

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