Documenting the history of graphic design.

Hi, my name is Matt Lamont and I have designed this website to document printed matter and provide a digital preservation of all things print.

Its my aim to digitise my entire design collection, whilst offering free easy-to-digest articles and interviews to inspire.

Matt Lamont

Documenting a Century of Design Inspiration – a History of Arab Graphic Design

Both educators have a keen interest in multiscriptual design, Arabic type design, and graphic design and recently released A History of Arab Graphic Design. I contacted Bahia and Haythem to find out more.

Matt Lamont

Jazz Journal. Britain’s longest enduring jazz magazine.

Jazz Journal was first published in 1946 by Sinclair Traill, who also had some of his photographs used on the covers. The magazine is now online but remained in print for several decades, as Britain's longest enduring jazz magazine.

Press Release

The IBM Poster Program: Visual Memoranda

In the late 1960s, IBM was one of the world’s pre-eminent corporations, employing over 250,000 people in 100 countries. While Paul Rand’s creative genius has been well documented, the work of the IBM staff designers who executed his intent outlined in the IBM Design Guide has often gone unnoticed.

Jens Müller

Moving Pictures – The complete film posters of Hans Hillmann

This book shows, for the first time, all of Hans Hillmann’s film posters. Unpublished sketches and drafts from his estate along with commentary from conversations and interviews provide an insight into the creative process of the award-winning designer.

Matt Lamont

Gabriel Amijai Benderski Perez and the Uruguayan Graphic Design Archive

Gabriel sent me a link to his amazing Uruguayan Graphic Design Archive when I launched Design Reviewed. The content was so amazing, I ended up spending a good hour looking through the content and it has definitely made it to my bookmarks.

Press Release

Volume launches the first major retrospective of American graphic design polymath and mid-century modernist master, Rudolph de Harak

In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Matt Lamont

Ken Garland and Galt Toys

I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.

Random Artefacts

From my archive:

Holiday Magazine, July, 1963

Format: Magazine
Designer/s: Rudolph de Harak
Year: 1963

From my archive:

Typografische Monatsblätter, 8-9, 1976

Format: Magazine
Designer/s: Heinrich Fleischhacker
Year: 1976

From my archive:

Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1964

Format: Magazine
Year: 1964
Client: Bruckmann Verlag

From my archive:

Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1968

Format: Magazine
Year: 1968
Client: Bruckmann Verlag

From my archive:

Wols. Schilderijen, gouaches, aquarellen, tekeningen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1966

Format: Exhibition Catalogue
Designer/s: Wim Crouwel (Total Design)
Year: 1966
Client: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

From my archive:

Happy Days, The National Theatre, London, 1974

Format: Programme
Designer/s: Richard Bird
Year: 1974
Client: The National Theatre, London

From my archive:

Industrial Design, February, 1959

Format: Magazine
Year: 1959
Client: Whitney Publishing

Workshops

I am always interested in teaching online and in-person. I can provide inspirational sessions for design studios, as well as online learning for students using the design archive.

Documenting the history of graphic design.

Matt Lamont

Documenting a Century of Design Inspiration – a History of Arab Graphic Design

Matt Lamont

Jazz Journal. Britain’s longest enduring jazz magazine.

Press Release

The IBM Poster Program: Visual Memoranda

Jens Müller

Moving Pictures – The complete film posters of Hans Hillmann

Jens Müller

Rediscover Hans Hillmann digitally

Matt Lamont

Gabriel Amijai Benderski Perez and the Uruguayan Graphic Design Archive

Press Release

Volume launches the first major retrospective of American graphic design polymath and mid-century modernist master, Rudolph de Harak

Matt Lamont

Ken Garland and Galt Toys

Random Artefacts

From my archive:

Holiday Magazine, July, 1963

From my archive:

Typografische Monatsblätter, 8-9, 1976

From my archive:

Atlas Filmheft 68 – Das tosende Himmelbett

From my archive:

Gebrauchsgraphik, 5, 1964

From my archive:

Gebrauchsgraphik, 10, 1968

From my archive:

Wols. Schilderijen, gouaches, aquarellen, tekeningen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1966

From my archive:

Happy Days, The National Theatre, London, 1974

From my archive:

Industrial Design, February, 1959

Workshops

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