Discover My First Bilingual Design: 10 Years of Creativity

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Aryna Livadari

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• 5h

My first ever design assignment from art university, 10 years ago. A speculative bilingual book (EN/RO) built as a pocket dictionary, each word translated horizontally, red text reading left to right. Going to share more of the projects that made me the designer I am today

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Agustin Dell Aquila

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• 1d

I'm working in my biggest project, it has 20+ CMS collections and tons of pages. Will make my best case study once it launches

Vivek Saroj

• 1d

My first web design vs most recent one... Sometimes I have to look at my old designs to actually realise how far i've come. How was your first design ?

Viktoriia Rubanenko

• 1d

Most books are designed around paper costs.

This one — around the reader. Classic typographic canons — generous outer margins, optimal line length, proportional leading — were developed over centuries for a single purpose: to make reading effortless. Not for beauty (though it's here too). But to disappear — and give full space to the story. Today these principles are rarely found in commercial printing. More margins = less text per page = more paper = higher cost. And so they were set aside. This project brought them back to life.

Cover ⮕ dark minimalist palette — refined, with zero visual noise. Endpapers ⮕ custom graphite pattern — the book begins before page one. Interior ⮕ classic canon grid with proportional spacing throughout the entire edition. Every element ⮕ from cover to last page — one cohesive object.

The result of this project is a book that reads itself. When typography does its job flawlessly, you don't notice it. You just reach the last page — and wonder where the time went! : )