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 ...

MANUAL TYPEWRITERS may be anachronisms in a touch-screen world, but they are experiencing a renaissance of sorts, and not only among writers arched over their desks like commas. While the comeback has ...

Last year, I reviewed a book called The Vintage Rolex Field Guide, which has to be one of the best buys in vintage watch education. A $45 paperback (or a $10 e-book), it’s packed to the gills with ...

If you're designing something for people to hold and use, you probably want to make sure that it will fit a normal human. You don't want to make a cell phone that people can't hold in their hands ...

If you wait long enough to clean out a junk drawer or filing cabinet, you’re liable to find something historic. In the case of graphic designer Greg Bridges of Sydney Australia, an old three-ring ...

Manuals for servicing consumer electronics have been around since the mid to late 1920s when commercial production of radios for households gave birth to the radio repair shop. Radio manufacturers as ...