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Book cover exploration

@MaxVOAO I’m constantly on the lookout so it could be anywhere, but my main sources are all the great online archives (places like @DesignReviewed, @internetarchive, @Lett_Arc etc), eBay/Tradera, books, and just good ol Google.

@Prof_Kalkyl Where do you find these usually ? Pinterest, maybe?

Recent inspiration archive additions:

@WillD_Designer 100%

@Prof_Kalkyl Inspiration is every where

@iamnotsrc You have great taste

@Prof_Kalkyl bravo!

@sawinyh Me too! I’ve recently started using @mymind and it has really leveled up my inspiration gathering game

@Prof_Kalkyl love when people share their reference folders. half my best ideas came from random screenshots saved months ago

@Snaljapen 2:a November också! Två svenska mästerverk med väldigt fina covers :)

@Prof_Kalkyl Jazz på svenska !

@jacob__titus Yeah, the stuff from Jacqueline Casey and Dietmar Winkler was crazy. Swiss grid, playful compositions, beautiful minimalistic illustrations

@Prof_Kalkyl MIT cooks.

@_kishan1 Love to hear it!

@Prof_Kalkyl I take inspiration from your work.

@tronpai These are made with 0% AI

@Prof_Kalkyl i'm curious if its possible for a early stage company to have a nice branding automated or at least curated with a proper prompt. where would you point to start?

@cardofinfsets @aerdna_c While I don’t agree with everything, I appreciate your honesty and that you took time to explain your thoughts :)

Here is a non-generic response about pinpointing. Grid, symmetry, geometry and the texture+color combo that appears natural, human, non-digital. Ones in green are pleasing to the eye. The others don’t seem to be because the typographical layout is very vibe-y and unpredictable, thus less readable & stressful (or rather effortful), to the eye. The 2nd from the left looks best only when landscape, otherwise a little stress-y to the eye. The one in magenta is off because the text at bottom-left section being vertical and the eye requiring effort to read. And, so on, with the other ones... as you will be able to tell better than me!

@stephenhaney Thanks man! 🙌🏼

@Prof_Kalkyl So good. Love these.

@aerdna_c Thanks bro! What do you like about them? If you can pinpoint it

@Prof_Kalkyl These are beautiful on so many levels!

@asadbekmake I think these 10 posters, from idea (the seed was creating the color palette, don’t know where that impulse came from) to exported GIF, took ~90 minutes

@Prof_Kalkyl no exploring/experimenting with the constraint. just saw u wrote "an hour"

@AlexTudun Appreciate it Alex 🙌🏼

One of the best account to follow as a designer, hands down.

@KYKYPY3A_B @KseniyaKroner 🙌🏼

@Prof_Kalkyl @KseniyaKroner You cooked with this one, and your work has been a huge inspiration for us.

Сегодня @KseniyaKroner встала в 5:30 утра, чтобы поехать и распечатать эти постеры в качестве сюрприза 🤍

@asadbekmake You mean picking the colors? A few minutes

@Prof_Kalkyl so for how long did u sit with those 20 colors?

@sungvisuals 👊🏼

@Prof_Kalkyl So cool goat

@Markbuschn I owe a lot to Josef Müller-Brockmann and Jacqueline Casey

@Prof_Kalkyl swiss design yeahh

Used 20 colors from the Artemis II photos to make another set of posters. I find constraints like this to be a great catalyst for creativity. Pick a random shape, color palette, word, photo, or whatever and just run with it for an hour.

@AdyashaPadhy Thank you! Color is fun

@Prof_Kalkyl Love this so beautiful!

@treyjohn52 Haha, unfortunately not.. 😬🙌🏼

@Prof_Kalkyl Will you have prints of these👀