Manuals 2: Design & Identity Guidelines [Unit 18]

Editors: Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy
Publisher: Unit Editions, London
Publication: 2014, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 432
Size: 270 × 315
Text: English
Design: Spin, London

(Publishers review) 'Manuals 2 is a comprehensive study of corporate identity manuals from the golden era of identity design.

As a companion volume to Manuals 1, Manuals 2 is a carefully-curated collection of 20th-century style guides, or as Steven Heller calls them – “sacred texts, revered for how they help shift graphic design from simply an intuitive practice to a rigorously strategic one”.

The book includes reproductions of 20 design manuals created for US and European institutions and corporations including IBM, Westinghouse, Canadian National Railway (CN), Bell System, Knoll, PTT, the Montreal Olympics and the Dutch police. Many of them have been designed by the giants of 20th-century identity design, including Lester Beall (USA), Paul Rand (USA), Allan Fleming (Can), Total Design (NL), Alan Fletcher (UK), Otl Aicher (Ger), Studio Dumbar (NL) and North (UK).' (source) www.uniteditions.com

Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

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