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1784A New Record Comparing the Handwriting of the Courtesans of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami) 吉原傾城新美人自筆鏡
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1557Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 10 (verso)
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2017Charlotte Trounce champions everyday objects and design classics in new book, A to Zakka
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2024Fed up of Frozen? A24’s must-have new book is full of films both you and your kid will enjoy
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2013Graphic Design: New Unit Editions book celebrates type as graphic solution
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2018Volume presents a long-overdue monograph on Japanese type master Takenobu Igarashi
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2016Inside Alasdair McLellan’s new book, designed by M/M (Paris)
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2012Ace new book and a fine looking shrimp in Andreas Samuelsson's updates
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2012Bookshelf: Mark Mulroney
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2015New Burning Man book looks at 16 years of burning art in the desert
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2019Graphic designer Laura Pappa’s architecturally-informed book design
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2018A rundown of Onomatopee Projects' critically engaging (and good looking) publications
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2019Editions At Play’s latest book challenges the conventions of publishing
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2012An eclectic cavalcade of lovely book covers courtesy of John Gall
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2015Unit Editions to publish swanky Lance Wyman monograph
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2014Anagrama produce stunning notebook for Imprimerie du Marais
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2020Wrappers Delight provides a window into classic sweet package design
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2011Bookshelf: Rory Sutherland
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2014Publication: Ken and Wanda Garland's Pudkin Books relaunched
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2018Studio Albert Romagosa’s publication designs are uncomplicated yet intelligible
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2015A host of illustrators are sent to unfamiliar cities in new book The Jaunt
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2016An ode to stamps in Amaury Hamon and Marine Giraudo’s marvellous book
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2017From vintage aesthetics to bold portraiture, we pick out the shining stars from JSR’s books
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2015An insight into shooting the Creative Review annual cover
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2019“Brexit is the dumbest error in the history of the UK”: the Yarza Twins presents its Bookshelf
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2012Typographic treats aplenty as the work of Letman aka Job Wouters is captured in gorgeous new book
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2024Caitlin McLoughlin’s design for Worms celebrates printed matter as ephemeral objects of representation
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2017Type foundry Colophon talks about its most-loved books
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2009Bryony Quinn
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2019Indie imprint Pseudonym Publishing creates sharp, charming and experimental titles
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2013Graphic Design: Behold the king of book design, it's Matt Dorfman
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2012Purpose shake up the antiquarian book industry with stunning set of catalogues
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2012If short stories and graphic design float your boat then check out The Penguin Plays Rough
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2016Unit Editions' superb volume of Herb Lubalin's typography
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2014Publication: Lubok move into uncharted waters with a new book from Neo Rauch
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2020"A reminder of what's possible with ink and paper": Draw Down Books shares five significant titles from its Bookshelf
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2011Covered
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2017Between the pages of Harley Weir’s first monograph, Paintings
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2020Exploring the gender gap through Italian history of art and book design
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2015Studio Johannes Bissinger's catalogue for the "WORLD'S BEST BOOK DESIGN"
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2016Hat-Trick designs book about ideas of imagining, creating and connecting
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2011Bookshelf: Samuel Wilkinson
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2012Loose Leaf Editions return with a killer new edition of their beautiful mag
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2013Fons Hickmann continue their great work with Semperoper for 2013/14 yearbook
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2011Bookshelf: Garth Jennings
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2017Designer Joe Gilmore’s investigative approach to book design
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2017Neil Donnelly’s book designs give form and function to the material within them
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2018Same Paper and KangHee Kim's latest book is a golden journey from dawn to dusk
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201220 years of fantastic book design from the bottomless archive of Studio Luc Derycke
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2012Fons Hickmann's gorgeous Semperoper catalogue has got us hot for opera
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2023Unearthing the work of Iris Alba, the “missing link” in Latin America’s book design history
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2015One of the finest books we've seen, Craig Oldham's homage to the miners' strike
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2013Graphic Design: Here's Darren Haggar and his excellent book design
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2011Bookshelf: R. Gerald Nelson
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2017A Practice for Everyday Life on its Hockney book and Yorkshire inspirations
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2012A lesson in great book design (and brevity) from Jason Booher
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2013Oliver Jeffers' limited-edition monograph is an object of beauty
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2008Front to Back Back to Front
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2013Tres Tipos Gráficos produce some of the most stunning fine art catalogues around
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2016Unit Editions' re-released sublime Total Design behemoth is gorgeous
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2014Swiss studio Ilg/Trüb's cracking catalogue for recent art exhibition
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2012Kapow! by name, kapow by nature - check out the latest Visual Editions book
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2014Bookshelf: Book designer Coralie Bickford-Smith shows us her top five publications
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2019Designer Konstantin Eremenko on how “book design is a meta narration”
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2016Hubert & Fischer turn one Stefan Rohrer artwork into an entire book
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2017Taschen releases two volumes of National Geographic’s best photographs from the past 125 years
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2015Student Shannon Lea's smart designs for three Philip Larkin collections
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2017Penguin book cover designer Janet Hansen on her favourite books
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2014Great new book by Norwegian illustrator Mari Kanstad Johnsen
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2016Brilliantly designed book goes behind the scenes of the V&A
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2011Bookshelf: Michael Marriott
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2012Two books are better than one with this stunning package from Lina Forsgren
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2011Folio
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2011Faber & Faber: The Romantic Poetry Collection
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2021“Good design is always marked by great consistency”: Studio Spehr and its ardent focus on book design
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2015Visual Editions’ reimagined edition of Don Quixote, designed by Fraser Muggeridge
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2014Masters students Ricardo Ferrol and Johannes Bauer create a well-designed book on identity
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2014Graphic Design: Drool on – The new Unit Editions book revels in golden age identity design manuals
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2011Werkplaats Typografie: Mary Shelley Facsimile Library
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2013Publication: Leanne Shapton dazzles with her beautifully produced swimming book
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2019Books are more than visual reference for Charlotte Ager, they are studies in how to tell stories
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2011Gottlund Verlag
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2014Bookshelf: This week it's famed children's book illustrator Chris Haughton
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2014Brighton-based Studio Makgill produce sumptuous book for G . F Smith
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2018Studio Frith designs Kitty Travers' La Grotta Ices into "a book you want to lick"
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2014Independent bookshop Antenne Books share five out-of-print titles
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2014Publication: Aries Moross presents their brilliant first book, Make Your Own Luck
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2016OK-RM creates beautiful, effective Antenne Books identity
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2013Publication: Inventory Studio nail design for fruity new Bompas & Parr book
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2013Publication: wilfredtimo honour Timo's grandfather in a beautiful book
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2021Taiwanese designer Tsai Chia-Hao on how he fine-tunes meticulous compositions
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2017Narrative and design: a chat with Penguin book cover designer Janet Hansen
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2019Bard Graduate Centre celebrates Jan Tschichold’s design legacy
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2013Graphic Design: Sonya Dyakova designs a beautiful new book about artist Ron Mueck
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2016Chad Kloepfer’s crisp exhibition catalogues and award-winning art books
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2015Cabin-lovers rejoice, your bible has arrived in a beautiful new illustrated book!
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2014Updates from Zigmunds Lapsa, our very favourite Latvian book designer
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2014AKFB produce lovely Eames-inspired photo book for Vitra
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2011LFF: The Monk
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2016Glasgow School of Art type technician and tutor, Edwin Pickstone shares his fave books
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2012GraphicDesign& brilliantly reinterpret Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
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2020A lesson in experimental and original book design with Ana Resende
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2019Melville Brand Design on a new book detailing the history of Samsonite
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2015The It's Nice That team's favourite books, in honour of World Book Day
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2013See your work in a beautiful book thanks to this year's One Word Brief
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2013Massimo Vignelli talks book design in this nice video by Michael Bierut
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2013Graphic Design: Guillem Casasús designs a striking book about POWER!
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2011Swiss Photobooks
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2019For Bizzarri-Rodriguez, book design “is everything except a science”
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2018No balls, all books: it's July Things!
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2019Rottingdean Bazaar creates a book for Paul Smith, starring people named Paul Smith
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2014Some of Penguin's best new illustrated covers and a chat with their creator
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2019Natasha Jen on returning to School of Visual Arts and confirming a love of book design
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2015Winning cover designs for Penguin Random House Design Awards
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2014Unit Editions talks us through Manuals 2's superb identity design guidelines
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2014Publication: Terrifically designed book accompanies G . F Smith rebrand
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2017Roger Mayne and Germano Facetti’s seminal covers for Penguin books
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2020What lies behind artists and designers’ eternal obsession with Tarot cards?
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2013Der Greif move into the world of books with Leon Kirchlechner's Nowhere
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2015Two GSA graduates salvage imagery from the Mackintosh Library fire for book
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2014Publication: Book designer Peter Mendelsund releases new book about his book designs
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2023Bangal Dawson’s visual language creates a “sense of discomfort in the world of branding”
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2013Graphic Design: Jessica Hische and Penguin's gorgeous book series
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2019Mistroom’s book designs are multi-sensory gems that incorporate elements of performance
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2008Farewell Books
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2018Unit Editions resurrects popular 80s and 90s typography journal, Octavo, in new book
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2013Graphic Design: Stunningly-documented publications from Maquette Et Mis En Page
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2018XXL Studio is an iconic Chinese graphic design studio producing exceptional book design
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2008Sycamore Street Press
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2012Making book covers look fancy – Julian Montague's designs are stunning
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2022Tradition and technology combine in a book of fully AI-generated Irish poems and imagery
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2012Swiss Studio Rubic are ones to watch for their beautiful book works
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2022Wang Zhi-Hong highlights the importance of typography in his considered book designs
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2014Graphic Design: Some tremendous typographic book covers from Astrid Stavro
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2021Cihan Tamti on typographic legibility, his new book of posters and attracting the viewer’s attention
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2025“In a time when it’s harder than ever to make a living from art, art gets made anyway”: The White Pube on their debut book
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2018George Douglas' latest book Events in the Year of the Family examines the falsification of memory
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2014Editor’s Picks: A selection of the most shelf-worthy books released this year
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2014In this week's podcast we chat Jeremy Leslie's magazine, muses and a Bible redesign
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2014Graphic Design: James Goggin and Scott Reinhard produce a beautiful catalogue for Amalia Pica
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2019Yoshi Sodeoka’s Bookshelf is all about design that gets better with age
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2013Publication: Acne Studios produce beautiful book to accompany collection
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2012Have a good gander at Bud Rodecker's gorgeous catalogue for Absent Nature
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2014Good-looking updates from New York-based book designer Linda Huang
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2012Bookshelf: Christiane Bördner
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2013Publication: Taschen's new tome is a treasure-chest of fashion illustration
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2011Bookshelf: Austin Kleon
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2017Breakdown Press’ Joe Kessler picks out his most-treasured books
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2014Publication: Owen Gildersleeve's lovely new book celebrates paper artists of all stripes
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2013Graphic Design: Design Observer honour best book designs of last year
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2020Forget about success or failure, learning is the key for graphic designer Sunny Li
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2013Graphic Design: London studio Julia produce phenomenal book works
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2012Picador Anniversary Editions
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2015The stunning, forward-thinking book covers of Weimar Germany
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2014Michael Bierut and his Pentagram team unite Penguin and Random House
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2018Designer Ronnie Fueglister explores “dramaturgy, reading habits, binding and the book as an object”
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2019Moonlight, Ex Machina and The Witch go to print in three books designed by Actual Source
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1993The marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Study of typography - Little Dorritka
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2015What a treat! Penguin’s fun new website to celebrate launch of 80 classics for 80p
Type in Use
Jahres-Ausstellung 1902 at Münchener Glaspalast catalog
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2014Publication: They That Do create a beautiful book of Colin O'Brien's timeless photography
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2011Urs Lehni of Rollo Press
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2026Discover the unconventional design details hidden between the pages of Neat Rodanant’s publications
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2022Mak Kai Hang’s darkly minimalist works are designed to make you think
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2016A beautiful book embodying Frank Gehry’s radical design for the Fondation Louis Vuitton
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2021The Art of Letters looks beyond the function of type to “realise the beautiful art form within the system”
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2014Paris-based studio Twice have made a gorgeous book you'll want to hold
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2012The Book Cover Archive makes categorisation and classification slick and sexy
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2013Check out Paris studio My Name Is and their award-wining publication
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2011Bookshelf: Visual Editions
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2017Taschen book highlights the undiscovered work of photographer Marvin E. Newman
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2015We get a sneak peek of TASCHEN's new book documenting 50 years of Pirelli
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2014Marinus Schepen's oddly appealing book about capital punishment
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2014The new Erik Spiekermann monograph is a sterling success
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2016"I go from analogue, to digital, then back to analogue" - Irma Boom on creating unique books
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2007Spike Press
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2016Studio Vanessa Ban’s book design plays with space and typography
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2019We Became Aware's latest publication is a book to be investigated and pulled apart
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2017The makings of Roald Dahl’s My Golden Ticket, a new book revisiting Wonka’s fantastical world
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2011Logo of Picador
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2018Late Spring Books on the challenges of representing freedom on the page
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2025Polytechnic’s whimsical designs for Anywhere Book Club reshape the reading experience
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2012Michael Bierut and Yve Ludwig re-think true crime book design for Errol Morris
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2007Farewell Books
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2012Cardon Webb creates jazz-inspired book covers for new Ralph Ellison collection
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2013Love Emiliano Ponzi's award-winning covers for Charles Bukowski books (some NSFW)
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2014Publication: Finally, a gorgeous new book to celebrate Alasdair McLellan's work
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2009The Mystery Books
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2013Delve into Bunker – an infrequent blog dusting off old design tomes
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2018Ludovic Balland explores how the US consumes the news in his book, American Readers at Home
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2013Graphic Design: Bunch produce beautiful project books for Nosive Strukture
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2013Publication: Folch studio turn up the heat with volume three of Odiseo
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2013Graphic Design: David Pearson is a hero of book jacket design
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2007Kotki Dwa
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2019Odd Publications’ new book A Tweet History is a reminder that what you say and do online matters
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2009Shakespeare & Company
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2007Hassla Books
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2013Victionary's new volume, Oversize, deals with some seriously massive art
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2012Dutch duo Scheltens & Abbenes release a new, exhibition-inspired book
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2021Coco Capitán and OK-RM discuss the making of the artist’s new book, Naïvy
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2026Faber Editions’ type-led cover design system is breathing new life into old books
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2012Clever, beautiful and breathtaking - Blexbolex steps up a gear with new book No Man's Land
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2017Spin designs abstract, painterly interpretation of 20s book, L’Heure du Cocktail / The Cocktail Hour
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2018Atelier Bingo’s new storybook features "pure, expressive images" inspired by nature
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2013Illustration: Roman Muradov is a giant of illustration with a great book on the way
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2021Book poster ad detail, Balcony stories by Grace King (cropped)
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2016Bedford Press co-founder Wayne Daly on his favourite books
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2013Publication: Soldiers, drugs and raves in Stuart Griffiths' superb new book
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2017Poetry and illustration “ping pong” in Damien Weighill and Daniel Cockrill’s brilliant book
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2022Alex Merto combines wit and considered typography in his book cover designs
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2012First look at the spreads from our first ever annual available here!
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2015All hail the magnificent visuals compiled by the Kindle Cover Disasters blog
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2021Kelmscott Press Typefaces
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2018We speak with the author of the latest Four Corners book, Greetings from the Barricades
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2025How Passover became a design problem
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2017Hubertus Design on the daunting task of designing a book of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books
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2009Fiction Department
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2013Graphic Design: Vintage books' new blog is a thing of bibliophilic beauty
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2013Colophon show off their latest work at new exhibition in Amsterdam
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2024The View from São Paulo: the book designers turning heads and pages
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2014Behind The Scenes: Insights from the designer who oversaw the Pelican Books relaunch
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2013Brilliant visual identity for B-B-B-BOOKS by Swedish design studio 1:2:3
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2007Magma Books
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2013Publication: Next Unit Editions book celebrates unique brilliance of FHK Henrion
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2012The Royal College of Art does "paradise" in Milan, and in book form
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2021The American Bookmaker - Volume 19-20
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2010Perifèric Edicions logo icon
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2024ATF 1923 Specimen Book page 81
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2016Spartan Book type specimen (14199380185)
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2019Kristine Kawakubo presents ideas and information through unconventional book design
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2013Graphic Design: Teo Connor Studio's elegant identity for Erwin Blumenfeld show
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2009Bibliographic
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2012Gorgeous book charts Issey Miyake's revolutionary Pleats Please collection
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2012Sea Design produce a series of stunning books for the irrepressible Monotype
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2014Graphic Design: Build's beautiful limited-edition book for Barber Osgerby show
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2019Erik Brandt releases his final Ficciones Typografika as a book documenting the project’s entirety
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2013Graphic design: Sinem Erkas' jazzy typefaces for F Scott Fitzgerald covers
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2012Behold the mighty work of independent publishers Sleeperhold
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2014Publication: Beautiful new book by Cat Garcia reveals the lives of some of the world's most fascinating creatives
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2012Coverjunkie
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2017From Roth to Seuss: Pentagram partner Marina Willer shares her favourite books
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2016Federico Antonini’s crisply designed book combines two projects from Italian artist Cristian Chironi
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2021Designed to mirror a physical experience, Oriental Silk documents the first Chinese silk importing business in the US
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2014Bookshelf: This week it's fantastic writer and creative director Duncan Campbell
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2015California knows how to design as proved by this stunning new book
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2021“Fonts are culture!” Support Independent Type negotiates the evolution of type specimens
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2007Chris Haughton
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2011Penguin Modern Classics
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2012Gorgeous imagined publications from German studio Deutsche Japaner
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2017Founder of publisher Mack, Michael Mack shares his most-prized books
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2021The New Alphabet presents a visual vocabulary, featuring 25 volumes and photography from Wolfgang Tillmans
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2013The W Project's new book is a fantastic contribution to an important subject
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2014We talk to Jamie Keenan about Turd Theory and designing exceptional book covers
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2012Project Projects bring Anne Tyng Inhabiting Geometry catalogue to life
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2014Graphic Design: Wunderbar design from Swiss publishing masters Ilg/Trüb!
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2015M/M (Paris) designs ace book about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
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2012Marc Newson's comprehensively captured in stunning new book
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2016Taschen editor Julius Wiedemann on the books that inspire him
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2013Publication: RCA students put their great minds together to create a historical book
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2014Pentagram designer Jessica Svendsen chooses five books that inspire her
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2010Disposable Diaries
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2019A look at London Review of Books’ cover archive over the past 40 years
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2018Pentagram's Abbott Miller's book on the game of Mahjong gets a reissue
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2017Atelier Dyakova’s delicious designs for food photography book, Feast for the Eyes
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2011Museums Press
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2009Bryony Quinn
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2017Take a break from the grey news with Will Sanders' new book, Full Colour
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2014Torsten Lindsø Andersen's redesign of Jack Kerouac's back catalogue
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2016Review of the Year 2016: graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook
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Design of typography for the Vyšehrad publishing house
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2014Beautifully tactile book cover designs by Anne Jordan
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2013Graphic Design: Studio Baer's stunning book celebrating Dior and the Impressionists
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2014We chat with the designer who helped create the ace new Pelican Books site
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2011Bookshelf: Richard Embray
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2014Publication: Stunning new volume explores the mythical world of Hieronymous Bosch
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2015Enid Blyton couldn't have written a better one; it's time for the Weekender!!
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2025Publishing without a spine: A new exhibition showcases “the power of print unbound”
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2015Introducing Half Wild, the best-looking photobook we ever did see
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2016Henri Barande’s Saatchi Gallery exhibition monograph has 4,000 different covers
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2018Clifford Jago teams up with Catalogue to create “an absolute devil of a second book”
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2019Jon Gray on designing book covers for Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney and other literary giants
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typography proposals for Eduard Štorch’s book
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2012Nakano Design Office produce a beautiful catalogue for Kiyoo Kawamura
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2011Bookshelf: Jason Silva
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2012Beautifully reimagining the book both textually and visually is Julie Chen
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2015The editors of Parterre de Rois show us their favourite books
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2016Stunning exhibition catalogue design from the 1960s and 1970s
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2015Lighthearted typography and books from design student Tomas Laar
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