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Ambarella Brand Guidelines: Santa Clara Vision Chips From GoPro Cameras to CVflow
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Synaptics Brand Guidelines: Carver Mead & Federico Faggin’s 1986 Touch-Interface Company
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Lattice Semiconductor Brand Guidelines: Hillsboro’s Low-Power FPGA Maker Since 1983
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Silicon Labs Brand Guidelines: An Austin Wireless Chip Designer & a Pending Sale to TI
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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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Theodor de Bry: Ornament, Lettering and Print Design
Quick answerTheodor de Bry (Liège 1528 – Frankfurt 1598) was a Netherlandish engraver, ornament designer and publisher. For…
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Tarō Okamoto: Monumental Faces and Myth for Designers
Quick answerTarō Okamoto (1911–1996) was a Japanese painter, sculptor and writer who spent the 1930s in Paris and…
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Richard Anuszkiewicz: Colour That Vibrates, for Designers
Quick answerRichard Anuszkiewicz (1930–2020) was an American painter and printmaker, trained under Josef Albers at Yale, whose work…
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Raoul Hausmann: Photomontage, Type and Sound Poems
Quick answerRaoul Hausmann (1886–1971) was an Austrian artist, born in Vienna, who became a central figure in Berlin…
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Marcel Broodthaers: Words, Objects and Display Design
Quick answerMarcel Broodthaers (Brussels 1924 – Cologne 1976) was a Belgian poet who became a visual artist in…
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Jack Butler Yeats: Colour, Impasto and Late Paintings
Quick answerJack Butler Yeats (1871–1957) was an Irish painter who signed his work “Jack B. Yeats”. His late…
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