Stendig Calendar — Designed by Massimo Vignelli
The Stendig Calender was first designed in 1966 by Massimo Vignelli and taken that year to the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Category: Design Essentials
Things every graphic designer should have, or at the very least: desire.
Helvetica The Perfume: The Scent of Nothing
Update: 2025 — No longer available, but still like taking a little trip back to 2013 when this was first posted. You know? This is just class! I can easily see people stumping up the $62 to buy a bottle of, Helvetica The Perfume: The Scent of Nothing (UPDATE: GutsandGloryand.us were extremely kind to send me my very…
Learning about Typography: The Typography Primer Book & Glossary of Typographic Terms – Free PDF Download
Learning about Typography: Typography Primer is an absolutely terrific typography and font book, covering a healthy portion of typography, as well as a decent size Glossary of Typographic Terms, provided by Adobe. Learning about Typography: The Typography Primer Book was actually first published waaaay back in the day, circa 2000, but the contents are still very relevant over a decade…
Design Principles: An open source collection of Design Principles and Methods
Design Principles is a place to learn about and create Design Principles; an open source work-in-progress managed by Ben Brignell @benbrignell an independent product designer from London. → https://principles.design An example of one of the many contributions, is by Tim Berners Lee, called Principles of Design:
CMYK Printing Demonstration using Four Individual Colour Acrylic Slides
Having come from the traditional side of commercial printing, whilst serving out my apprenticeship, I found this simple demonstration of 4 colour CMYK Printing to be pretty useful. If you’ve not had the opportunity to work in a printers, or watch a 4 colour CMYK press at work, it’s not always so clear as to how the…
100 Beautiful Colour Swatches and 4 Colour Combinations by Canva
This is an incredibly useful selection of 100 colour swatches and colour combinations that the people over at Canva have painstakingly put together for us. ColourLovers used to be my go-t0, but it’s a bit of a mess now, so I’m always on the look out for new places to gather new colour combinations and…
A Designers Hippocratic Oath x4 facilitated by Minni Bredou @mbredouw and devised by her Students
Recently came across this feel-good tweet on The Designers Hippocratic Oaths aka Design Manifesto, Design Code of Ethics,- tweeted by the students teacher, Minnie Bredouw: Credit: https://twitter.com/mbredouw/status/1224527535175692288 I had meant to blog about The Designers Hippocratic Oath soon after, but it ended further and further down in my blog post to do list. Bear in…
Man and His Mark – Trademarks and Company Symbols Designed by Les Mason 1970
Man and His Mark – Trademarks and Company Symbols, designed by Les Mason, was part of the Impressions series; a range of paper promotions produced for Associated Pulp and Paper Mills (APPM). Each issue of Impressions was given a specific theme, and some of Australia’s most revered designers were commissioned for the project. Impressions Number Three explored…
Color Palettes of the Fortune 500 Brand Logo Designs by Bold Web Design
Fortune 500 Color Palettes by Bold Web Design is a veritable feast of brand logo design colour palettes. Not sure I’ve ever seen such a comprehensive collection of brand logo designs and their respective colour palettes, even if it is ‘limited’ to the Fortune 500 brands. There’s so much here to investigate, as well as…
Massimo Says: A fine AI Text Generator for the more discerning of designers
Massimo Says: A fine AI Text Generator for the more discerning Designer. Massimo Says is, as it’s self described, “Hopefully one of the finest AI text generators out there.”, fake phrases NOT by Massimo Vignelli. In a sea of latin Lorem Ipsum text generators, and other novelty style text generator, Massimo Says finally brings to…
