The 167 best book covers of 2024 according to 54 book cover designers.
12.13.2024
CAPS LOCK is a reference work that uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism have come to be inextricably linked. The book features designed objects, but also examines how the professional practice of designers itself supports capitalism. Six radical graphic design collectives are featured that resist capitalist thinking in their own way, inspiring a more sustainable and less exploitative practice of graphic design.
11.8.2024
As a graphic designer and graffitist who has been making work since 1989, German artist neck, who also goes by Oliver, is a big fan of the “beauty and (sometimes) weirdness” of common audiotape design. His ambitious archive project, tapedeck, aims to document the wide range of cassettes produced throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
Via: Colossal
8.29.2024
Design Reviewed is Matt Lamont’s personal project dedicated to digitally preserving graphic design history and documenting the vast visual culture from the last century.
8.20.2024
Exquisite paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung are an ode to the quaint corner stores of South Korea.
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8.3.2024
Featuring a vintage 1957 Explorers Club Annual Dinner hand drawn design, the Explorer Club’s diner mug is made in the USA by Homer Laughlin.
7.21.2024
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once considered the densest settlement in the world. Thirty years after it was torn down, former residents and others who worked there shared some of their most vivid recollections of what was known as the “City of Darkness.”
Photo: Greg Girard
7.11.2024
Peter Mendelsund has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today,” and his design work has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “the most instantly recognizable and iconic.”
7.7.2024
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes.
Illustration: Andriy Onufriyenko
6.26.2024
Renowned for his virtuosic ability to work across different genres with an imaginative and multifaceted approach to image making, James Jean fuses contemporary subjects with aesthetic techniques inspired by traditional Chinese scroll paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, and Renaissance portraiture.
Source: KaiKai Kiki Gallery
6.18.2024
After leaving his position as director of men’s fashion at his showroom to take care of his daughter in September 2005, Scott Schuman began carrying a digital camera around and photographing people he saw on the street whose style he found striking.
Source: Wikipedia
6.1.2024
When it comes to calligraphy in Asia, China and Japan are usually front and center thanks to traditions stretching back to the early days of the written word. But Thailand shouldn’t be overlooked. The country now boasts a large and innovative scene that embraces everything from contemporary calligraphy and calligraffiti to script-based tattoo art.
Malika Favre is a French artist based in Barcelona. Her bold, minimal style—often described as Pop Art meets OpArt—is a striking lesson in the use of positive/negative space and color.
5.26.2024
Naoto Fukasawa’s Hiroshima Arm Chair is a blend of tradition and craft. With perfectly seamed joints, the armchair appears to be hand-carved from a solid block of wood.
5.23.2024
Tivoli Audio originated in Boston in 2000 with just one radio and the design quickly became a classic.
5.17.2024
The strange faces and minimal scenes in Japanese illustrator Noritake’s work are utterly charming. Working mainly in monochrome with occasional flashes of blue or peach, the work manages to distil emotions and actions into beautifully crafted one-liners.
5.14.2024
Critics at the time were not pleased. Assessing the Swiss-born photographer’s grainy, cock-eyed, prowling pictures of tattered flags and ghostly glowing jukeboxes, festering racial injustices and the sad lineup of lost souls who had seen their tethers to the American Dream unceremoniously cut, ...
Photo: Robert Frank
5.9.2024
Reina Takahashi is an independent paper artist that works with art directors and creative directors to create images for publications, social channels, photo shoot props, and stop-motion animations.
5.5.2024
The astrology budgeting blog that deciphers the mystery of finance through the stars, artificial intelligence, and simple truth.
5.2.2024
Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.
4.29.2024
Dorothea Hofmann tells the story of Swiss graphic design from a new perspective. Starting with a deliberate focus on Basel, she paints a differentiated picture of this national graphic design movement.
Photo: Draw Down
4.29.2024
Inga is a bookshop in Chicago with a focus on self-published and independently distributed artists’ books on art, design, film, theory, and more.
4.28.2024
Yasuto Sasada’s colorful detailed paintings created by using 0.3mm pens.
4.25.2024
Notabag founder, Adnan Alicusic, found himself narrowly avoiding an accident on his bicycle, carrying groceries in traffic. It made him wish he had brought his backpack instead of struggling with the plastic sliding along his handlebars. The cogs began turning in his head, and he was inspired to create the original tote bag-backpack hybrid.
4.24.2024
The Chicago Graphic Design Club is “a community dedicated to building a positive culture within the theory, craft, and practice of graphic design.” Highly recommend joining their Discord channel.
4.23.2024
Inside an ordinary building on an ordinary street in Hong Kong is one of the world’s most valuable record collections.
4.22.2024
Coverjunkie is a “celebration of creative covers and their ace designers.”
4.22.2024
Visual identity update by Pono Design and Scratch Collective.
4.22.2024
Based in Taipei, Wang Zhihong crafts a “new design style that blends classicism and modernism.”
4.21.2024
The winning entries of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest.
Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage for GEO
4.18.2024
Vintage-style tees inspired by music, film, artwork, logos, and typography.
4.17.2024
Live radio stations from around the world.
4.17.2024
POSUTĀ POSTER: Contemporary Poster Designs from Japan
4.15.2024
Brand identity by Pact Studio. Hydrosat focuses on providing geospatial intelligence for food security, public safety, and the ennvironment.
4.12.2024
Running since 1938, what the ultimate study on happiness reveals.
4.11.2024
Electronic music by Macroblank.
4.10.2024
TP–7 is built to record sound, music, interviews, and important ideas with zero friction in the highest possible quality.
4.9.2024
The world’s first knock-type mechanical pencil was released by Pentel in the 1960s, and in 1971 they developed an item with the concept of “a mechanical pencil used in the same way as a fountain pen.” CDT’s version inherits the original design. One of my favorite mechanical pencils to use.
4.8.2024
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
3.27.2024
