Artists from book cover

Best Book Cover Design of 2012 | Inspirational Portfolio [56]

Posted in: Book, Inspirational Portfolio | April 3, 2013 at 3:00 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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As you all know, my favorite design field is the book design cover and inside layout. I am fascinated by the stories and how one can convey with a design a whole story of 100 or 200 or even 500 and more pages with thousands words. And not only...

Bauhaus – The Origin of the New Typography

Posted in: Book, Graphic Design / Miscellaneous | October 30, 2012 at 3:01 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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This book is about the history and evolution of Bauhaus typography, from the early years of Herbert Bayer and Tschichold’s New Typography til today, analyzing fonts with direct reference to the movement. It includes original sketches, revivals, experimentations, decorative, hybrid, display and text fonts, classifying the type foundries involved...

Bone – Anatomy Illustrated

Posted in: Book | May 21, 2012 at 3:00 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Anatomy Illustrated is a book designed by Australian designer Josip Kelava, to showcase the master illustrators of the 16-19th centuries. In particular, it focuses on the illustrator William Cheseldon who was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy, and who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical...

Gabor Palotai Design | Inspirational Portfolio [48]

Posted in: Inspirational Portfolio | May 9, 2012 at 3:00 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Gabor Palotai Design, graphic design studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. Type, shapes and geometry are their tools to design minimal but bold book covers, poster art or logotypes. Their creativity goes far more to a broad range of design projects in the field of visual communication such as corporate...

Greetings From Outside The Inside | A Poster-Card Book

Posted in: Book, Posters | April 18, 2012 at 3:56 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Today I am very happy to present you a very interesting and inspiring book! “Greetings From Outside The Inside” is a poster-card book designed by Pamela Campagna and Thomas ‘omi’ Scheiderbauer. It contains 54 wonderful, captivating posters which became large postcards. All posters were co-created by Pamela and Thomas...

Student Work: Film Festival Book Design

Posted in: Book | April 5, 2012 at 3:04 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Jon Wong is a new promising graphic designer who has a particular talent for book and publication design. This is one of his earlier student works he created during the 2010 and here we can see his powerful talent of illustration, packaging and typography. Beast in a Neon Cage is...

60 Best Book Cover Designs of 2011 | Inspirational Portfolio [36]

Posted in: Book, Inspirational Portfolio | March 9, 2012 at 3:40 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Tough decisions when it comes to choose the best book cover designs of a whole year! Through different sources I made a small collection of the greatest 60 designs of 2011. I hope you will find them interesting and inspiring as well. ...

Everything Is Going To Be OK. Outstanding Artwork!

Posted in: Book, Posters, Typography | March 3, 2012 at 10:23 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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A positive and really inspiring book!! Everything Is Going To Be OK is a delightful pocket-sized anthology of positive artwork from a diverse lineup of independent and emerging artists, designers and illustrators. Through outstanding graphic design and typography the book delivers existential truisms. A book not only for those...

Very creative pencilhead craftwork

Posted in: Art, Graphic Design / Miscellaneous | March 1, 2012 at 1:30 am , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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I POLITICS DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE CICERO magazine Pencilhead campaign was made in cooperation with the German artist Ragna ReuschKlinkenberg who carved the face of world’s most important politicians on the pencils. The campaign is very impressive, clever and creative!. It focuses on portraits of political leaders. President’s Barack Obama...

Become someone else | fascinating series of ads

Posted in: Advertisement, Book, Graphic Design / Miscellaneous | February 29, 2012 at 3:42 am , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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When one reads books, he/she starts living it and identifies with main character. These print ads focus on the idea of becoming someone else. Design by love agency a Lithuania based design practice....

Amazing Arabic Graffiti Collection in a book!

Posted in: Book, Graphic Design / Miscellaneous, Street Art, Typography | February 28, 2012 at 12:15 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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Arabic Graffiti In the light of the Arab revolutions that currently bring sweeping changes to the Middle East, this book keeps an eye on the fascinating developments of graffiti and street art in this region. Whether on the freight trucks of Lebanon, along village alleyways in Bahrain, on the...

These Book Covers are really inspiring!

Posted in: Book | February 28, 2012 at 11:33 am , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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One of my greatest love in Graphic Design, is Book Design and of course, Book Cover Design. Book cover usually must caught the most attention of the readers and make them memorize it. Without reading the book. Its design should be able to give you a clue of the...

6 must-have books about typography

Posted in: Book, Typography | February 26, 2012 at 11:25 pm , by Maria Papaefstathiou

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If you are a graphic designer or typographer, you are always looking to improve your skills. One way to do that is to work and practice your art, the other way is to learn from others’ experiences and books. 1. Thinking with Type Well-structured book that gives plenty...