Before the Internet, printed graphics standards manuals were practical tools for designers. Today, they sell for $80 a pop. In 2012, Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, along with their ...
Many companies are reproducing old graphics standards manuals, like NASA’s 1975 graphics standards manual. As part of the movement to revitalize the past, Canadian graphic designer and art director ...
Design Week: Tell us about your background as designers and how the first crowdfunding campaign came about? Jesse Reed: Hamish and I met when I joined Pentagram Design in New York in 2012, and we both ...
When I first broke into the graphic design profession in 1984, I already had two Graphic Standards Manuals under my belt as a Rochester Institute of Technology graduate. Manuals consisted of a ...
If you’re a fan of graphic design history, you might be familiar with Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the 1970s and ...
Although it might not be as recognizable south of Windsor, the classic CBC “Gem” logo has the same funky 1970s cachet in Canada as the vintage PBS logo in the States. It was originally designed by ...
The NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual closed yesterday on Kickstarter having raised an amazing $802,812 as design junkies flocked to support a somewhat unlikely crowdfunding home-run. Over 6700 backers ...
Perhaps it’s the contemporary obsession with nostalgia, but somehow, just like Brutalism, dated design manuals have made a comeback. Thanks to a few within the design industry—notably “typomaniac” ...
The New York City subway was a confusing mess in the 1960s, with inconsistent, haphazard signage that made navigating the system a nightmare for commuters. In 1967, the New York City Transit Authority ...
QSL (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?) is a new book from publisher Standards Manual that looks at the beautiful and varied designs of ham radio users’ unique call cards Any designer worth ...
Design Week: Tell us about your background as designers and how the first crowdfunding campaign came about? Jesse Reed: Hamish and I met when I joined Pentagram Design in New York in 2012, and we both ...
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