April 17, 2020 · 1 min read
FashionStandards Manuals: Guidlines for InspirationIn the last few years, there's been an enthusiastic revival of old-school brand guidelines; for example, the popular reboots of the NASA and New York City Transit Authority standards manuals, both thanks to Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. I'm a design librarian and archivist with Letterform Archive, and it’s exciting to see this revival translate into increased interest in the Archive's deep…