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drawdownbooks · 5 months

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Design as Art by Bruno Munari - a design classic from @penguinclassics

Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and the role it plays in the objects we use everyday. Lamps, road signs, typography, posters, children’s books, advertising, cars and chairs—these are just some of his essay subjects.

Available at Draw Down!

#graphic design books #Design as Art #Bruno Munari #Draw Down Books

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Kate Brideau, The Typographic Medium, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2021 [Draw Down @drawdownbooks]

#graphic design #typography #book #cover #book cover #kate brideau #the mit press #draw down books #2020s

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miroana · 7 months

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Percy Jackson will do your quests

#I laughed aloud at the idea of posidon posting a pull tab ad poster on olympus with percy’s home address on it #I put down the new pjo book to draw this #do you know how inspired I need to be to put down the new pjo book??#percy jackson #pjo #poseidon #percy jackson and the olympians #the chalice of the gods #greek mythology #rick riordan #my art

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egophiliac · 8 months

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another one that I'm not super happy with, but continuing to mess with it isn't going to help! so here he is! 🦇 there was a lot I was trying to get across in this one, so uhhhhh hopefully it reads.

we're almost out of unique magics now...just Ace (and maybe Grim?) left!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #unique magic posters #drawing lilia slightly more on-model than i usually do feels so wrong #i just want to draw the tallest spikes #lilia: (writing down his height) 5'6“...5'2” in a hat #(actually i'm pretty sure he would just write 'fun-size' but i digress)#anyway lilia. hey lilia. your magic is not cradle-specific so WHY is it called that #did it come in like 'so in like 500-ish years we're going to have a significant moment with a cradle. just trust me bro.'#'in the meantime enjoy having the weirdest magic name ever'#probably came in useful for raising kids though #don't put that in your mouth don't you know where it's BEEN #because i do #(long stare off into middle distance) i know where it's been

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joyfuladorable · 11 months

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Trust (based on an ask I answered)

#spiderverse #peni parker #SP//dr #miles morales #not tagging gwen this ain't about her lol #atsv #across the spiderverse #my art #first time drawing Miles!!#based Spider's design off the comics cuz I couldn't find movie ref til AFTER I finished drawing em lol #waiting eagerly for my art books to arrive so I have better refs for all the Spideys #also if anyone tags this as ship I'll hunt them down on all fours like Miguel does to Miles (jk I'll just block)

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suntails · 5 months

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knighted

#MOMENTS THAT MAKE ME EMOTIONAL. BAUL CALLING HIM BY NAME NOT CALLING HIM HUMAN. WEAK AT THE KNEES #i think ill only have time to draw these two pieces before i leave for the holidays so i want them to be a set. i think its fun #talked abt it on twt but artistically its SO fun that book 7 has the 'good guys' w the colors of the night. greens and purples and darks #and the 'bad guys' of the humans strike their queen down with a brilliant yellow light. the light IS the darkness is conceptually yummy #trying to lean into color choices and intentional comps lately. lilias piece reading L>R feels like the angle pushes down on him #here sebek faces with the eye's movement so its more positive. like hes climbing towards his beautiful bright future. ouughj #never before in fandom have i wanted to so clearly break down my own art choices like a historian but diasom does smth to my brain #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #baul zigvolt #ch 7 spoilers #suntails

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annasellheim · 1 month

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Next part- MRI shenanigans

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dangoulains-devotion · 1 month

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#FF7 #FF7R #FF7 Rebirth #Final Fantasy VII #Final Fantasy VII Rebirth #aerith gainsborough #barret wallace #my favourite synergy ability... solely for the animation its so cute and cool #sorry papa wallace for i am 1) not good at drawing facial hair and 2) was not mentally strong enough to draw your gun #one day i will but today was not that day #i worked on this for 9 hours straight it got to a point i zoomed out and was like why doesnt this look right #and it was bc i forgot his tattoo....... he's naked iwthout that #also i've never tried to do comic-y explosions and text before so i kind of just looked at clip art for reference and then yolo'd it #i hope it doesnt look terrible i've decided i no longer care to fret over it #i need you to understand that if you were to zoom out the camera on this photo #barret is proper crouched down and aerith is standing on a pile of books #so that they could attain a pose where she is leaning on his shoulder #I FORGOT MY OWN ART TAG bro im so tired #my art #<- i am moonlight elegy on twt

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ozymandien · 3 months

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later, ouyang thought esen wouldn't even had noticed: the moment his stillness of anticipation flicked into the stillness of shame, as quickly as capping a candle. his blood ran cold; his body burned. it was the feeling of a blade slid gently into his heart.

#[transmigrates into this book to prevent esen from opening his mouth]#if he had kissed him here .....#anyway this scene lives in my mind rent FREE #it all started with me wanting to draw ouyang with his hair down like a sad wet cat. then i thought ha what if he had sheer silk inner robe #AND THEN i thought what if esen's hand ended up in his mouth. like just hypothetically .#i must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul so i did just that #i'm so soo soso normal about ouyang's pretty face as you can tell #general ouyang #esen temur #('s hand)#the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #shelley parker chan #fanart #digital art #myart

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deafening-radio-silence · 2 months

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I think that Dr. Christina "I was an excellent soldier" Raynor needs to deal with some personal things before she's anyone's therapist, because she strong-armed more of Bucky's autonomy away from him than Zemo did within the series.

#yeah man make amends for the shit that happened when you didn't even have control over your own thoughts #so she was giving him a way to “fix things” but that wasn't on him to do so #all she did was doubly reinforce what he already thinks - which is a justified but false and guilt-laden perception - about the situation #idk much about therapy but i don't think that they're sposed to do that. correct me if i'm wrong and then i'll go fight all therapists #bucky barnes #tfaws #alpine #my art #thank you for putting up with my drawings of a comic book character and his asshole cat lol #i had to put my dog down recently in a bad way and i can't rightfully get another house dog with my current work schedule #so i got a cat since they can handle being inside for the day and the shelter lady said she's super antisocial towards other cats #she's super antisocial towards me sometimes too but she sleeps on me at night and my house has never been cleaner #now that i have to vacuum cat fur and mind what i leave lying on the counter #i've never liked cats before but she's special i guess idk ain't everyone's cat special lol #anyway i'll stop using my tumblr blog as a blog now lol

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protagonist-art · 1 year

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mysterious zelda creature from totk trailer 3 i love u .... <3

#found more refs of them while i was finding refs for the hylia lookin person ... ended up goin down a rabbit hole of the art book LMAOO #luv drawing a character that doesnt even have a known name so i cant tag it correctly #totk spoilers #tears of the kingdom spoilers #tears of the kingdom #spoilers #legend of zelda tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda: tears of the kingdom #loz totk #fanart #art #totk #totk is looking SO promising im so exctied .. if i cant get it i think i will actually explode with upset #legend of zelda #rauru

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drawdownbooks · 6 months

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Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators

Highly recommend this gorgeous book: it's divided into 24 chapters, each one representing an hour of the day. This separation is represented visually by assigning a color to each hour, based on the usual daylight, temperature, mood and activities of that time, in the temperate climate zone. Includes chapters on color, emotion, cultural understanding of hues, and much more!

Based on real examples drawn from graphic, product and illustration, different innovative combinations and palettes are shown for each color and the meaning it conveys. Intended for graphic designers, design students, fashion and interior decoration lovers, and all those interested in exciting and unexpected color combinations that work.

Designed by Sara Caldas

Published by Hoaki Books, 2021

Softcover, 303 pages, full color, 5.9 × 8.2 inches

Available at Draw Down: https://draw-down.com/products/palette-perfect-for-graphic-designers-and-illustrators

#Palette Perfect #Hoaki Books #Draw Down Books #color books #graphic design books #design resources #color and psychology #color and mood

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garadinervi · 2 years

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Cyrus Highsmith, Products of a Thinking Hand, Gerrit Noordzij Prize, With essays by Indra Kupferschmid, David Berlow, and Cyrus Highsmith, and a previously published interview of Highsmith by Jan Middendrop, Designed by Erik van Blokland and Peter Verheul, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag, De Buitenkant, Amsterdam, 2018 [Draw Down @drawdownbooks]