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design history
A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2014Graphic Design: Monotype and Pentagram show celebrates 100 years of type in design
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2026A 50-year goldmine of design: AIGA New York unveils its poster archive to the public
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2020Wrappers Delight provides a window into classic sweet package design
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2012Michael Tighe shares three decades of behind-the-scenes shots of the world's most prolific icons
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2025“I’m just getting started”: Debbie Millman on 20 years of Design Matters
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2014An interview with the curator of the RCA's major graphic design show
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2026Meet the iconic printmakers that shaped half a century of the UK’s contemporary graphic art
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2023Unearthing the work of Iris Alba, the “missing link” in Latin America’s book design history
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2019We looked at the past before heading to the future at September’s Nicer Tuesdays
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2015History In The Making: Emily King looks back on 20 years of writing design history
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2017Designing Bauhaus Now magazine was a conflict of rationality and experimentation
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2020The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes
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2017Steven Heller and Greg D'Onofrio on six modernist works that impacted the world of design
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2013Podcast: Why New York? speaks to Milton Glaser and Michael Bierut
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2016Going West: Highlights of 27 years of the Design Museum at Shad Thames
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2017Phaidon book gathers together 500 of the most iconic graphic designs of all time
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2024This book is an intricate visual history of Japan’s boom in commercial design
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2016Back to the Future: what today's creatives can learn from yesterday's design principles
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2022Eugénie Bidaut on tackling the erasure of women in design history and breaking down binaries in type
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2018The History of Graphic Design: Volume One charts iconic work from 1890–1959
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2014An in-depth interview with Corinne Day's agent and friend, Susie Babchick
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2022“It still has a lot to do”: The history of Uruguayan design and its slow and steady influence on the world
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2023Michael Wolff Monograph
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2024Jannis Maroscheck’s new book investigates the boundless shapes throughout design history
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2012A new book Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers champions the unsung heroes of this craft
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2012The Lost Lectures
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2015Getting the Ladybird books' perspective on Britain's social and design history
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2021Monotype’s Tom Foley on an “emotional topic”: Helvetica
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2018Hope to Nope: exploring the "pivotal" past decade of graphic design and politics
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2023EA Sports Logo: An Oral History
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2013Meet Clarence Pearson Hornung
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2021Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
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2021How design became socially conscious: Get inspired with Dropbox and The Ulm School of Design’s new digital archive
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2019Take a trip back to graphic design's mid-century heyday with Theo Inglis' latest book
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2021This is the Way
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2015Tony Seddon talks us through his "who's who" of 20th Century graphic design
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2018Veronika Minder's book, Art Décor, explores the life of bon viveur Bob Steffen (NSFW)
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