The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the 1970s and turning them into books for designers, history buffs, coffee-table book collectors ...

Hidden beneath a pile of clothes in a neglected gym locker was the New York City Transit Authority “Graphics Standards Manual”: a 174-page, ring-bound book that dictates Massimo Vignelli’s ...

The folks interested in the hardcover book should still be interested even though the PDF is now readily available. It's worth noting that the NASA Graphics Standards Manual has always been ...

We’re also opening a small bookstore in the front that will exist as the physical location of Standards Manual and will sell our books but also other graphic design titles. DW: What is the main ...

The space is also home to a modest bookshop devoted to graphic design ... freedom in terms of publishing their own books under the Standards Manual imprint. But don’t expect to see too many ...

Fast forward a week later, and the space agency has just released the entirety of the Graphics Standard ... to bring the manual back to life. Danne had a copy of the book on hand, which Reed ...

published by Standards Manual The book is titled QSL (Do You Confirm Receipt of My Transmission ... I am acknowledging receipt’). The graphic design history bit comes in with the QSL cards presented ...

In 2012, a rare copy of the 1970 New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual was discovered in the basement of ... Now, it is to be republished as a book – which you can pledge to buy ...

documented in the 1970 New York City Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual. In 2012, designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth of New York City design firm Pentagram discovered a rare copy of the ...

The logo, with its thick lettering and crossbar-less A's reminiscent of rocket nosecones, was the centerpiece of a broader document called the NASA Graphics Standards Manual. It outlined how the ...

Rachel Giese: What was it like when you actually got a hold of one of these 1974 Graphic Standards Manuals? Adrian Jean: I managed to talk to Burton Kramer about the project, and he was very ...