It’s called Graphic Design: A User’s Manual, and it will be published in the U.S. in October 2009. Scarily, it is currently lying on my desk as paper run-outs.

Standards Manual’s newest book, New York City Transit Authority: Objects, is not a reproduction of any earlier, graphic-design guidelines but rather something of an outgrowth of their work on ...

“For a government, this was very expressive graphic design,” says Hamish Smyth, Reed’s co-founder at Standards Manual. When the EPA standards were produced in the ‘70s, high-design manuals ...

The graphic design history bit comes in with the QSL cards presented throughout the pages, which showcase, as Standards Manual puts it, “ the often overlooked visual history” of ham radio. “The cards ...

If you’re a fan of graphic design history, you might be familiar with Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the ...

We’re opening an office in Brooklyn in two weeks, so we’ll run our design office out of there. We’re also opening a small bookstore in the front that will exist as the physical location of Standards ...

Reed and Smyth note that the system is “an extremely rare manual––even in the design world,” rarely seen by designers. EPA logo, Chermayeff & Geismar, 1977. Image: Chermayeff & Geismar ...

Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...

It’s called Graphic Design: A User’s Manual, and it will be published in the U.S. in October 2009. Scarily, it is currently lying on my desk as paper run-outs.