MANUALS 2
Manuals 2 features a mix of 20 outstanding American and European design manuals. Each is photographed in exquisite detail and accompanied by meticulous descriptions of their physical make-up.
Featured manuals include IBM, Westinghouse, Canadian Rail, Bell, Knoll, PTT, Montreal Olympics and Dutch Police.
Manuals 2 also comes up to date, incorporating contemporary manuals for RAC and First Direct. Many of the manuals are designed by the masters of 20th-century identity design: Lester Beall, Paul Rand, Allan Fleming, Total Design, Alan Fletcher, Otl Aicher, Studio Dumbar and North.
Hardback with high gloss wrap
260 x 310 mm
432 pages
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260 x 310 mm
432 pages
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Editor: Unit Editions (Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy)
Design: Spin
Design: Spin
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Unit Editions is a collaboration between Tony Brook (Spin) and Adrian Shaughnessy (ShaughnessyWorks) and brings the notion of the book as a highly designed artefact with rich visual and textual content to an international audience of design professionals, design students and followers of visual culture.
Spin is a design studio in London that over the past twenty years has established an international reputation for delivering clear, elegant design solutions across multiple platforms.
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I worked during the internship as design assistant for the layout of some manuals and as photographer for the still life of the covers, spreads and details and curating the post-production of the final pictures.
