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Have you discovered Lotte Reiniger?
I first encountered Lotte Reiniger’s silhouettes in 2010 during a trip to the UK when I visited the British Film Institute Southbank. In the gift shop, I was charmed by a postcard set featuring silhouette designs on bright neon backgrounds. The designs are so delicate. It’s hard to believe someone cut them from paper. I’d…
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I designed a book cover
I may have a problem. I really, really enjoyed designing my book cover. And at some point, I started making fake book covers because I could. Here’s my fake book: Someday, I may have to write this book because I have the book cover design. I have a title and tagline. That’s sometimes the hardest…
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Writing tip: Design Advice for writers
A how-to-write essay series by Ava Clary I love to take advice from one medium and apply it to writing. How exactly does this work? Well, you watch a YouTube video on a film director, or you discover a post about design, but you take all the tidbits and reconsider them from a writer’s point…