October 2020
Beginner
288 pages
11h 43m
English
book
The Type Project Book: Typographic projects to sharpen your creative skills & diversify your portfolio
by Hugh D’andrade, Nigel French
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Travel Guide
Keeping it simple
The Brief
Create a minimalist travel guide cover that relies for its impact on type and color
Trim Size
4.25 × 6.25 inches (108 × 160 mm)
Learning Points
Using minimalism and understatement
Positioning and aligning elements
Tools
InDesign
Fonts Used
Gotham Bold (Hoefler&Co typography.com)
Inspiration
If you’re like us, you wait to pick up your travel guide until you’re at the airport bookshop. Look up and down the aisle: The books are almost always blue, with a full bleed image, and a bold, sans serif font. Hugh spent most of the 1990s designing covers for Lonely Planet, and they looked like this back then as well.
Happily, there’s a new trend in travel guide design towards understatement, with ...
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