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

Simon Dixon: Influences, Technology and Creating Work You Love

Simon Dixon is the co-founder of DixonBaxi and has been at the forefront of exceptional design from the start of his carreer. This year, DixonBaxi, celebrated twenty years in business, and their team of forty work with clients such as WWE, MAX, Premier League, Channel 4 and Netflix.

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 Unpublished sketches and drafts from his estate along with commentary from conversations and interviews provide an insight into the creative process of the award-winning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.

Random Artefacts

From my archive:

Nicolas Schöffer, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1964

Format: Exhibition Catalogue
Designer/s: Wim Crouwel (Total Design)
Year: 1964
Client: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

From my archive:

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Season 1968-69, Brochure

Format: Folded Programme
Designer/s: Gerald Cinamon
Year: 1968
Client: BBC

From my archive:

Architectural Design, June 1957

Format: Magazine
Designer/s: Theo Crosby
Year: 1957

From my archive:

Othello, The National Theatre, London, 1967

Format: Programme
Designer/s: Ken Briggs
Year: 1967
Client: The National Theatre, London

From my archive:

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 6, 1974

Format: Magazine
Year: 1974

From my archive:

The International Year for Graphic Design, Poland FDC, 1988

Format: First Day Cover
Designer/s: Wojciech Freudenreich
Year: 1988

From my archive:

Projekt 121, 6, 1977

Format: Magazine
Designer/s: Rosław Szaybo
Year: 1977

From my archive:

G. Rietveld Architect, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1972

Format: Exhibition Catalogue
Designer/s: Wim Crouwel and Magda Tsfaty (Total Design)
Year: 1972
Client: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

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.

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