Before the Internet, printed graphics standards manuals were practical tools for designers. Today, they sell for $80 a pop. In 2012, Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, along with their ...

A mega-retailer and a tiny wood type museum in Wisconsin join forces to bring a different kind of style to the back-to-school crowd Target, already known for partnering with designers Michael Graves ...

Last week NASA released in full its circa-1976 “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” to the public after a demand was raised by a Kickstarter campaign to release it in glorious hardback. The hefty guide ...

The MTA has some of the most iconic branding of any transportation system around the world, thanks to Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda’s 1970s standards system. Yet that’s a relatively recent chapter ...

The graphic design program emphasizes hands-on design approaches, while critical analysis, theory, research and application will be explored. Students will become well-versed in graphic design ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...