J.R. Geigy was a Swiss chemical company in the  50’s and 60’s. Their in-house designers played an integral role in the history of the Swiss International style. The company’s designs recently received quite a spotlight, via an exhibition at the Design Museum Zurich and the publication of Corporate Diversity : Swiss Graphic Design by Geigy. One would think that designs like these would require the use of Helvetica, but the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface was undeniably successful in many of the designs. 

A short film was also created regarding the exhibition.
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Bruce Black has an enormous collection of  scanned colophons from the 1940’s & 50’s on his website. Each of these marks utilizes a limited color palette and overall shape simplicity. I particularly appreciate the “common” aesthetic found in these marks. They weren’t created to be pretentious or high-end,  but to appeal to the average reader who is simply looking for entertainment.

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Npgraphicdesign has a vast collection of vintage London Underground posters in a Flickr set. It’s a wonderful glance into the stylistic evolution of a culture.

McFaul Studio creates the kind of client work that a lot of designer/illustrators aspire to produce. The studio does a lot of work for large, corporate clients, but their fun, youthful style is always present.

Computer Arts Projects

Carhartt Streetwear

British Airways

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Norton & Sons, Savile Row Bespoke tailors, were recently given a facelift by Moving Brands. The result is a visual combination of century-old craftsmanship and powerful contemporary graphic application. The BBC even did a short documentary on the re-brand.

Lately, I’ve been seeing really great letterpress prints popping up left and right. After seeing StudioOnFire’s blog, I’ve officially caught the letterpress bug. A lot of great designers have used SOF’s services, so their portfolio shows plenty of great possibilities within the medium. I personally like how bold typefaces look when letterpressed. Pictured above is a one color invite by Eight Hour Day.

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This is a series of logos representing international tennis star Roger Federer. The logos were created by +41 and Nike to celebrate Federer’s career. The overall style of the series is very upscale and makes sense, aesthetically, that these logos would be directed toward the tennis audience.

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The Book Cover Archive looks to be one of the best typographic and conceptual inspiration resources on the web.

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Buchanan-Smith is known for designing both Paper Magazine and Isaac Mizrahi’s identities. His type selection is elegant without being predictable, opting for typefaces with personality, as opposed to using Helvetica Neue Ultralight, like countless others in the high-fashion world.

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Take a look at this great collection of international bank logos.

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