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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1970 NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual, by Unimark’s Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda, is being reissued in January 2015 as a full-size book. Licensed exclusively from the MTA and ...

Many companies are reproducing old graphics standards manuals, like NASA’s 1975 graphics standards manual. As part of the movement to revitalize the past, Canadian graphic designer and art director ...

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 NASA logo of the '70s was called "the worm" and I can see where that name came from. The font used for the letters in the logo looked like a fat earthworm twisted into the letters needed to spell ...

NASA may have just thrown some serious shade at the creators of a newly launched Kickstarter campaign. Last week, New York-based graphic designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth started a Kickstarter ...