Designer Interview

Designers and Books Series – Mark Bloom

Mark Bloom has designs for globally recognised brands, produces some of the finest, most accessible modern typefaces and heads up Mash Creative and CoType Foundry. His type foundry has always been a port of call for our studio's brand projects and he continues to develop these, each with a fantastic print specimen.

Book Reviews & Press Releases, Corporate Identity & Branding

• America
• Rise of Corporate Identity

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.

Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories

• Germany
• Mid Century Modernism

Posters from the 1961/62 Best German Posters Awards (Die besten Plakate des Jahres)

One of the main features in Gebrauchsgraphik 08, 1962 is focused on the 1961/62 annual poster awards in Germany. Over 400 posters were submitted to the awards.