The golden era of manuals began in the 1960s with the rise of the first big global corporations. It wasn't long before everybody from small companies to sports events, even cities, needed a ...

The book presents 21 corporate identity manuals created between 1963 and 1981. These include the Lufthansa identity created by Otl Aicher and the Gruppe E5 student collective (also the subject of this ...

In 2014, Unit Editions published Manuals 1, a compendium of corporate identity manuals from the 1960s and 1970s, thinking it would appeal to a very small subset of graphic designers.

Now the British Rail identity is getting a similar treatment. In the 1940s, ... Henning is collaborating with Nick Job, a custodian of the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual.

CI, as it was known, required companies and design firms to develop, refine, and maintain an integrated identity system defined by laws set down in a bible known as the graphic standards manual.

CI, as it was known, required companies and design firms to develop, refine, and maintain an integrated identity system defined by laws set down in a bible known as the graphic standards manual.

Manuals 1 claims to be the first-ever comprehensive study of corporate identity manuals, and features glorious full-colour photography of such gems as the NASA, Randstad and British Telecom identity ...