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An essay on the forgotten art of the punchcutter
1965 :: USA :: R. Hunter Middleton
An essay that was published as a keepsake alongside a talk given by R. Hunter Middleton to the School of Library Service of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
- Language: English
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Graphic design USA 11
1990 :: New York :: American Institute of Graphic Arts
The AIGA graphic design annual for 1990. It shows the best designers in American graphic design from the period. It shows off the year’s most significant designs, and also contains the winners of the American Institute of Graphic Design’s 1990 awards.
- Language: English
- Publishers: American Institute of Graphic Arts and Watson-Guptill Publications
- Designer: Anthonhy Russell
- Associate Designer: Barbara Nieminen
- Production Coordinator: Brian Stanlake
- Writers: Steven Heller, Chuck Byrne, and Philip B. Meggs
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Spartan Family
1953 :: New Jersey :: American Type Founders
A type specimen for ATF’s Spartan Family. Spartan was designed as a response to the popularity of Futura.
- Language: English
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Type by Detroit Type Foundry
1951 :: Detroit :: Detroit Type Foundry
A type specimen booklet for the Detroit Type Foundry. It includes an index of types alongside a price list for each font size, from 6pt to 72pt.
- Language: English
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Hawaii Travel Poster
1969 :: Contenential Airlines
This travel poster features a Hawaiian surfer wearing a pink lei and red swim trunks. The bright colours and distinct black lines are very typical of the psychadelic posters of it’s period.
- Language: English
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Apple human interface guidelines
1987 :: Reading, Massachusetts :: Apple Computers
This book outlines the UX/UI guidelines for how a Macintosh program look and behave. This edition defines the rules for the Apple Desktop Interface on the original Macintosh computers as well as the Apple II.
- Language: English
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Let’s Make B for Bennett
1953 :: The Typophiles :: Warren Chappell
A booklet by illustrator and type designer Warren Chappell, published by “Friends of Paul Bennett” (dated 1953-12-03), sketching the process of traditional type punchcutting using a counterpunch. The treatment is correct and well illustrated, but exceedingly brief. A portion of the print run was distributed, at Bennett’s request, as Monograph 40 of The Typophiles.
- Language: English
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California Type Foundry Price List [and] Specimens
1947 :: San Francisco :: California Type Foundry
Specimen book by the California Type Foundry (San Francisco). This was a 20th century typefoundry (“since 1941”) not to be confused with the 19th century typefoundry of the same name. This specimen is undated, but contains a price increase stamp effective April 1, 1947. The typefaces shown are primarily Lanston Monotype faces.
- Language: English
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Corona
1951 :: Linotype Company
A specimen of the typeface Corona by Linotype. It was part of the Legibility Group series of newspaper types by Linotype and developed by their in-house design team. The lead type designer on this project was Chauncey H. Griffith, who was also known for his work on Bell Gothic.
- Language: English
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Trademarks & Symbols Vol. 1: Alphabetical Designs
1973 :: New York :: Yasaburō Kuwayama
Volume 1 of 2 of Kuwayama’s comprehensive book of trademarks and symbols from all over the world.
- Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Language: English
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Trademarks & Symbols Vol. 2: Symbolical Designs
1973 :: New York :: Yasaburō Kuwayama
Volume 2 of 2 of Kuwayama’s comprehensive book of trademarks and symbols from all over the world.
- Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Language: English
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This is Material Design
2014 :: Google
An introduction booklet to Google’s Material design language.
- Language: English
- Sent in by David Allin Reese (@Davallree)
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Ergonomics Handbook
1989 :: New York :: IBM
A reference book for IBM employees. It set standards for them like optimal keyboard height, proper posture, lighting, etc,. There is a name written in marker on the front cover that doesn’t appear to be original (unfortunately I wasn’t able to verify), but the interior spreads are clean.
- Language: English
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Palm Springs Travel Poster
1970 :: USA :: American Airlines
This wonderful midcentury modern image comes from a vintage American Airlines travel poster for sunny Palm Springs, California.
- Language: English
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IBM Selectric Composer Type Style Portfolio
1970 :: USA :: IBM
This is a catalog of fonts available for the IBM Selectric Composer electric typewriter. It uses interesting ‘font balls’ that allow the user to swap out the font that they are using for their typewriter.
- Language: English
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