David Bennett of Visuelle, has created a printed booklet that showcases some of the great work featured on his site during last year. The 28 pages include work from Manual, Bibliothèque, Graphic Thought Facility, Dixon Baxi, Six, Heydays, Stockholm Design Lab, Build and more.
You can grab a copy here.
I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy of the NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual for years now with no luck. I came very close last year when I was bidding on an eBay auction for a copy, but I lost it. I still regret not bidding higher.
Seems like these folks have better luck, because they happened to find a first edition copy in a locker beneath some old gym clothes at Pentagram’s NY office. Are you kidding me? Nope. Lucky bastards. They photographed every page and put high-res photos up on a site for us all to drool over. Enjoy.
Prepare to spend the rest of your day on this site. TM Research Archive is an incredible website that catalogs cover designs of the influencial journal, Typographische Monatsblätter. The site focuses on the issues from 1960 to 1990, the period that had the most influence on modern typography, and it features interviews with designers that have contributed to the publication over the years, as well information on the designer and typeface used for each issue.
The site was created by Louise Paradis as part of her Master degree in Art Direction at the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland. The project continued with the financial support from ECAL and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland.
All of the issues photographed were from the private collection of Jean-Pierre Graber, the chief editor of TM for over twenty years.
The site gives you a great sense of how the design evolved over the decades. My personal favorites are the covers designed by Yves Zimmermann, Emil Ruder, Robert Büchler and Felix Berman.
What an amazing resource to have available to designers. Thank you Louise.
AisleOne reader, Sean Wolcott, wrote in to tell me that Massimo Vignelli has given him permission to distribute a high-res PDF of his book, Graphic Design for Non-profit Organizations. This rare book is by Vignelli and Peter Laundry, and was published in 1980 in partnership with AIGA. The book focuses on design and best practices for non-profit organizations, but the content is a great resource in general and the teachings can be applied pretty much anywhere. There are sections on grids, typography, formats, logotypes, and color, just to name a few.
A big thank you to Massimo and Sean for making this valuable resource available to all.
You can download the PDF from here.
Here’s another gem from Unit Editions. A limited edition monograph featuring the work of Herb Lubalin. This book covers Herb Lubalin’s, from his beginnings in advertising, to his status as one of the most influential graphic designers of the last century.
The book is edited by Adrian Shaughnessy, Tony Brook and Alexander Tochilovsky, and designed Spin.
Book publisher Phaidon has annoucned “The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design”, a massive reference guide on graphic design that includes newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record covers and moving graphics from around the world. Sounds like a good addition to any collection.
The publication will be released in September, but you can pre-order a copy from Amazon.
Lufthansa + Graphic Design: Visual History of an Airline is a book by Lars Müller Publishers that highlights the corporate identity of Deutsche Lufthansa. In 1963 , Otl Aicher and his Gruppe E5 student group at the HfG Ulm were commissioned by Lufthansa to develop a new visual identity.
The book also includes the design and advertising history of Lufthansa from the 1920s until today, illustrations from the corporate archive, background articles, interviews, reproductions from the Ulm study of 1962, and the first corporate design manual for Lufthansa from 1963.
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
Edition 7 of Process Journal is out and features several contributors who have stretched the boundaries of ‘graphic design’, including motion graphics project More4 by ManvsMachine, interior and architectural-based design studio Projects of Imagination and letterpress enthusiasts The Hungry Workshop. And we have another rock-solid compilation of contributors, including identity projects from This is Real Art, Lundgren+Lindqvist, Six and Studio Dumbar. We’ve also revisited previous contributors, including Heydays (Edition One) and MadeThought (Edition Three). And of course I can’t talk about Edition Seven without mentioning our typographic feature on one of my favourite typefaces, Aperçu by Colophon.
Edition Seven contributors include: Heydays, Lars Müller Publishers, Studio Dumbar, Projects of Imagination, Lundgren+Lindqvist, Colophon, Six, The Hungry Workshop, ManvsMachine, This is Real Art, Semi-Permanent, MadeThought and with a conversation between Rob Duncan and Clinton Duncan.
This looks to be a great edition. You can grab a copy on their shop.
GraphicDesign& publishing house is releasing its first title, Page 1: Great Expectations. The book includes 70 different typographic interpretations of the first page of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations from some of today’s best designers.
Contributors include: APFEL, Phil Baines, Tony Brook, Cartlidge Levene, Tony Chambers, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Experimental Jetset, Fraser Muggeridge, KarlssonWilker, Frith Kerr, Robin Kinross, Ellen Lupton, Luke Hayman, Morag Myerscough, Erik Spiekermann and Sam Winston.
Page 1 is 110mm x 178mm and contains 320 pages. The cover is printed in two colours and foiled on 300gsm Olin Rough Cream. The interior pages are printed in black on 70gsm Ensonovel. A letterpress tip-in is also included.
You can pre-order the book now.
Most books on code are visually boring, but HTML & CSS designed by Jon Duckett makes the reading experience much more interesting and fun. I haven’t read the book, but I’d guess that the good design will help with the learning experience.
I’ve been very lucky to finally find a copy of the Graphics Manual for the 1976 Montréal Olympics, which is my personal favorite Olympic identity. I’m a little obsessed with collection pieces from these games. I particularly fond of graphics manuals like this because they provide a window into the the thinking and process behind the identity system. It’s the closest you get to having the designer explain the system, in this case Georges Huel and Pierre-Yves Pelletier.
Edition 5 of the excellent Process Journal is now out and it sports a new design: a more flexible grid, updated captioning, new contents page and a brand new cover.
Edition Five contributors include: Christopher Doyle, Thomas Williams, Farrow, Aesop, Winkreative, Moving Brands, Holt Design, Gavillet & Rust, HORT, The International Office, L2M3, Xavier Encinas and Research & Development.
Process also has a new photo stream featuring some behind the scenes images of the publication being printed.