The mod logo is actually surprisingly sometime : The first trademarked logotype date all the way back to the 18th one C . But it was n’t until the 20th — the epoch of instant and ubiquitous communicating — that identity plan really bloomed .
A few moths agowe wrote about Manuals 1 , a book of large corporate logotype figure , from NASA to ABC . It wrench out the book was so popular , it ’s already sold out — and the UK - free-base publishers , Unit Editions , are putting out a follow up calledManuals 2 : designing and Identity Guidelines .
Like the first version , it look at 20 design manuals from the same golden age of identity design . There ’s IBM , whose Paul Rand - designed logo came to define the former years of consumer computing . Or Rand ’s Westinghouse ’s iconic three - pronged W , design in 1961 . Or Saul Bass ’ classic Bell System logo , which came to personify Ma Bell before she met her fate at the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice .
Then there are more surprising — or at least less familiar — inclusions , like the typical neon chevron of the Dutch National Police ’s emergency brake vehicle , design in 1993 byStudio Dumbar :
Or the design for Canadian National Railways , right down to the infliction job , design in 1965 by Allan Fleming :
It ’s a great look at how these graphic designer shaped indistinguishability that spanned from midget logotype to massive vehicles , and a glance into an era before Illustrator and single file sharing . Check it outhere .
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