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Boudewijn Ietswaart Passes Away At Age 74
On 23 December, Dutch designer Boudewijn Ietswaart died at his home in Amsterdam.
Read moreBritain By Bike “Book Of The Year” At BPIF Book Awards
The British Book Design and Production Awards celebrate excellence in book design and production.
Read moreThe Rediscovery of Boudewijn Ietswaart
Inspired by Boudewijn Ietswaart’s book covers, the Círculo de Tipógrafos converted his hand lettered alphabets into digital fonts.
Read moreThe Ten Best Book Covers Of The ’00s
The Book Cover Archive have published their Top Ten of Covers of the ’00s, including the ten runners-up.
Read more2009 Penguin Design Award Winners
The winning book covers designs for the Penguin Design Awards 2009 are showcased on the Penguin Books website.
Read moreThe “Bloody Cover 2009″ Has Been Found
Renate Kampmanns’ Fremder Schmerz wins the Bloody Cover 2009 award for the most beautiful cover for a German language crime novel.
Read moreFaceOut Books Documents The Design of Book Covers
The weekly blog FaceOut Books focuses on the process, the successes and the failures, and overcoming any obstacles in book cover design.
Read moreSpoof “I Can Read Movies” Book Covers
Mitch Ansara a.k.a. Spacesick created a number of mock 1960s paperback book covers for “I Can read Movies”, a fictional series of movie novelisations. The books came about from his involvement in the Make Something Cool Every Day group on flickr.
Read moreThe FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
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