Design Maunals
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- Calypso
Does anyone know of any design manuals on the web or where I cold get some?
- Biofreak0
design manuals?
what do you mean exactly?
- jox0
well, there aren't any exact "guidelines" on how to design, except for certain techniques, like how to do this and that. If it's inspiration you are looking for I suggest you go buy a few decent design books or just surf around the web.
- Gorbie0
Well, me and some other fellow designers are havin' a go at writing one.
(see: Poor Designer's Almanac)
- Biofreak0
id recommend checking into anything by steven heller.
a history of graphic design
or
100 icons of graphic design
and on and onhe is cinsistently the best design writer i have found.
- Calypso0
I mean a book (manual0 which describes how a logo should be used for a specific company. For example, Nike's swoosh -how should it be used in different applications and what are the guidelines.
- Biofreak0
mmm. i have some sites like that bookmarked at home.
i know that 4cY posted something here a while back in the PBS. do a search on design manuals there or something.
if you dont have any luck, then i will post them when i get home.
- Gorbie0
'Styleguide' will get you farther.
- Biofreak0
word.
you would be better off contacting the company i would think.
- Duane0
not sure if the pasted link will work, but search amazon for 'corporate identity manuals' by david e. carter. i have a copy of it. it's old and not the best book in the world, but it has tons of examples of complete corporate identity manuals.
- boyintrnet0
fedex.com has one i remember a good one......in press kit look int company press kits
- Biofreak0
i doubt any of this will be helpful, but i promised i would post them for you.. so:
http://www.akzonobel.com/company…
http://www.samsung.com/about/ci/…
http://www.abb.com/visualidentit…
i think these came from 4cY, so ... uh ... put a coin in the dutchman. =)
- jking760
sounds like he wants a standard graphic guideines manual for logotypes etc.?
or styleguide if you will.
- _d0
sweet.
the "Search" function bellow does come in handy kids.