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Posted on May 22, 2021January 29, 2022

Beautifully Briefed: Books and Design, May 2021

Four things for you in this edition of Briefed, starting with a redesign for Grist:

“Climate. Justice. Solutions,” now looking good. Still worth reading (and bookmarking). Love that shade of green, too. Read about the hows and whys at Upstatement. Kudos for the excellent work.

Next, from the regularly-brilliant Jason Kottke — which he got from Print magazine — winners of the 2021 Type Directors Club Design Awards, including this fave:

Read more about the SF Symphony redesign at the (also) regularly-brilliant Brand New (very worthy subscription required).

And two books, starting with a nice interview with NPR:

Really like the design, more so than the others in the series.

Lastly, a reminder that this blog originates in Middle Georgia, home of the Cherry Blossom Festival — which might explain why this title and its quite awesome cover design caught my eye:

Enjoy!

Posted on April 30, 2021January 29, 2022

Beautifully Briefed: Covers & Design, April 2021 (Updated)

Three items for your update this month, starting with one of the best logos I’ve seen in a long while: Realm. Check this out:

Just … wow. Colors aplenty in the supporting materials, but the logo itself in beautiful black and white — and that GIF. (Update: the GIF isn’t working here, which lessens its appeal. CRAP. See it at either link below, but either way, see it. So worth it!) Congrats to Mother Design on this triumph.

Read the story at It’s Nice That or visit the source at Realm.fm.

Update, May 4: Brand New says, “A Nightmare on Realm Street.” Frankly, I’m surprised:

The animations for both the full wordmark and monogram are a little clunky. Maybe it’s on purpose, maybe not, but something about them feels half-cooked. Some killer animations would have really taken this to the next level.

Hmph. Read the rest.

Next. a Guardian item on book covers — and how being “Instagrammable” is now, thanks to Covid and bookstores being less accessible, what’s expected:

I’ve famously chosen to boycott social media, so it’s probably not a surprise that I’m not 100% in agreement with the sentiment that Instagram is necessary for successful cover design. Nonetheless, supporting quality design — and acknowledging that more than a few do, in fact, judge a book by its cover — is a good thing. Read the rest.

Last but not least, from Spine’s fantastic University Press Cover Round-Up, this:

Check the shadow of the bottle cap. Now, go to Spine and check the texture in the background. Revel. Repeat.

Posted on June 1, 2020September 23, 2020

Adobe updates logo, program icons

“Evolving our brand identity,” Adobe said in a May 28 blog post. “Evolved” is the right word, too, as things aren’t changed all that much. I will comment, though, that the PDF/Acrobat logo and icon have yet to change as suggested in the post; maybe they will soon. (Oh, and, LrC is kinda clunky for Lightroom Classic. Picky, picky.)

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