NBC Brand Guidelines, 1959

I think the current NBC logo is great, but this is a great little historical gem designed by John J. Graham.

Nice student project by Nour Tabet.

Exploring the stories behind typefaces named after women, the final product of woodcut ligature necklaces is packaged with a design reminiscent of a business card giving the personal information of the inspiring women.

See more here.

Lego fans might be keen to know about the newly released history/culture book of the famous brick toy ‘The Cult of Lego’. All reviews seem rather favourable, as does this video flick through the book. See it here.

Lego fans might be keen to know about the newly released history/culture book of the famous brick toy ‘The Cult of Lego’.

All reviews seem rather favourable, as does this video flick through the book.

See it here.

I’ve been enjoying a lot of the material over at ‘Display recently. Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera. One article in particular gives better description of what they’re all about - looking at the topic of collecting, and whether we should collect just to have, or collect to better inform context and understanding. Check it out here.

I’ve been enjoying a lot of the material over at ‘Display recently.

Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera.

One article in particular gives better description of what they’re all about - looking at the topic of collecting, and whether we should collect just to have, or collect to better inform context and understanding.

Check it out here.

Chronicle Books have just published ‘Pantone: The 20th Century In Color’, and is probably best described over at the ChronicleBooks website. Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, décor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues. You can buy a copy either at Amazon or direct from Chronicle Books.

Chronicle Books have just published ‘Pantone: The 20th Century In Color’, and is probably best described over at the ChronicleBooks website.

Longtime Pantone collaborators and color gurus Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker identify more than 200 touchstone works of art, products, décor, and fashion, and carefully match them with 80 different official PANTONE color palettes to reveal the trends, radical shifts, and resurgences of various hues.

You can buy a copy either at Amazon or direct from Chronicle Books.

This incredible Bernard Ratzer “Plan of the City of New York” map in its 1770 state was discovered in the first half of last year. After much restoration work it can now be enjoyed here.

This incredible Bernard Ratzer “Plan of the City of New York” map in its 1770 state was discovered in the first half of last year. After much restoration work it can now be enjoyed here.

Designer Oliver Munday has worked on a branding identity for 826DC: The Museum of Unnatural History, which holds to a great visual style that works both instore and on this poster (one of a series of four). I’d recommend you see all the photos and work here. Watch out for the great gift store products.

Designer Oliver Munday has worked on a branding identity for 826DC: The Museum of Unnatural History, which holds to a great visual style that works both instore and on this poster (one of a series of four).

I’d recommend you see all the photos and work here.

Watch out for the great gift store products.

Heroes of Folk is a limited edition postcard series created by designer/illustrator Scotty Reifsnyder. Lovely use of letterpress and limited colour palette, and a fun concept running across the six of the postcards. See the rest here.

Heroes of Folk is a limited edition postcard series created by designer/illustrator Scotty Reifsnyder.

Lovely use of letterpress and limited colour palette, and a fun concept running across the six of the postcards.

See the rest here.

The Macula are a design company that specialize in ‘video mapping’ projection based installations. They made this fantastic piece of work that, Mapping the 600 years history of the astrological tower clock situated at Old Town Square in center of Prague.

See more of their work here.

Shorpy Historic Photo Archive contains a fantastic collection of high resolution photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. “Stanley Harris, Washington Nationals.” Washington manager and second baseman Stanley “Bucky” Harris at Griffith Stadium in 1925. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Shorpy Historic Photo Archive contains a fantastic collection of high resolution photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s.

“Stanley Harris, Washington Nationals.” Washington manager and second baseman Stanley “Bucky” Harris at Griffith Stadium in 1925. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.