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Description

Carl-Johan Lindqvist is co-founder of the Swedish design studio Lundgren+Lindqvist, specialists in brand identity design, art direction, graphic design, and web development.

Books

• Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli — https://link.amazon/B0c8fMC8N

• Getting Real by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson and Matthew Linderman — https://link.amazon/B06S0m95r

• Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann — https://link.amazon/B09QDfCqB

Tools and resources

• Adobe Photoshop — https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html

• Basecamp — https://basecamp.com

• GIMP — https://www.gimp.org

• Material Design — https://m2.material.io

• Slides — https://slides.com

People

• Hakim El Hattab — https://hakim.se

Special thanks to Mattias Nilsson, our director of photography for this episode.

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:02 The space

03:14 Inspirations

06:21 Books

11:40 Value creation

18:13 Style, constraints, responsive design

22:32 Blessings and curses of mobile technology

30:43 Brand identity checklist

35:24 Advice for young designers

41:08 Favorite failures

47:40 Parting advice

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