Graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy lives and works in London where for 15 years he was creative director of Intro then a consulting creative director of This is Real Art. AW: I like that you say your ...

A page from the 2014 reissue of the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual showing a diagram explaining the use of arrows in wayfinding signage in subway stations (photo courtesy of ...

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 1970s and ...

Perhaps it’s the contemporary obsession with nostalgia, but somehow, just like Brutalism, dated design manuals have made a comeback. Thanks to a few within the design industry—notably “typomaniac” ...

We're big fans of NASA's graphics standards manual. You know, the one we wrote about this time. And this time. Oh, and this time, too. You could say we're a bit obsessed, but can can you blame us? The ...

Design Week: Tell us about your background as designers and how the first crowdfunding campaign came about? Jesse Reed: Hamish and I met when I joined Pentagram Design in New York in 2012, and we both ...

Two years ago, Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth put together a Kickstarter project that reissued NASA’s original 1974 design standards, which introduced the iconic “Worm” logo to the world. Now, the pair ...

Graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy lives and works in London where for 15 years he was creative director of Intro then a consulting creative director of This is Real Art. AW: I like that you say your ...