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Rehrig Pacific Brand Guidelines: A 1913 Dairy-Crate Maker Still Run by the Rehrig Family
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Schoeller Allibert Brand Guidelines: The Crate Maker That Became IPL Schoeller in 2025
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Loscam Brand Guidelines: The 1942 Melbourne Pallet Pool Now Run From Hong Kong
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IFCO Brand Guidelines: The 1992 Pullach Crate Pool for Fresh Produce, Now Owned by Triton
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CHEP Brand Guidelines: The 1946 Australian Pallet Pool Behind Brambles’ Blue Pallets
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Airdri Brand Guidelines: The Oxfordshire Hand-Dryer Maker Founded in 1974
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From the Museum
Design guides to art movements and great artists, illustrated with public-domain works — what to look at, and how to borrow it for your own work.
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Plautilla Nelli: Design Lessons from a Renaissance Nun
Quick answerPlautilla Nelli (c. 1524–1588) was a Florentine painter and Dominican nun who ran a painting workshop inside…
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Naum Gabo: Lines, Planes and Transparent Space
Quick answerNaum Gabo (1890–1977) was a Russian-born Constructivist sculptor who built open forms from intersecting planes, clear plastics…
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Milton H Greene: Fashion and Portrait Photography
Quick answerMilton H. Greene (1922–1985) was an American fashion and celebrity photographer, and later a film producer, known…
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Marie Guillemine Benoist: Neoclassical Portrait Design
Quick answerMarie Guillemine Benoist (1768–1826) was a Paris-born portrait painter who trained with Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and…
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Marie Bracquemond: Light, Line and Plein-Air Design
Quick answerMarie Bracquemond was a French painter, printmaker and ceramic designer who died at Sèvres in 1916 and…
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Maria van Oosterwijck: Flower Painting Lessons for Designers
Quick answerMaria van Oosterwijck (1630–1693) was a Dutch painter of flower and vanitas still lifes whose bouquets glow…
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Tools & Software
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