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Farnell Brand Guidelines: A 1939 Leeds Distributor, Newark, element14 & Avnet
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Farnell Brand Guidelines A Leeds catalogue house that took the name of silicon.…
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Mouser Electronics Brand Guidelines: A Teacher’s 1964 Parts Shop, TTI & Berkshire Hathaway
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Mouser Electronics Brand Guidelines A teacher’s parts shop that grew into a quarterly…
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DigiKey Brand Guidelines: A Ham-Radio Kit From Thief River Falls & a 2023 Rebrand
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide DigiKey Brand Guidelines A ham-radio kit from northern Minnesota that became a parts…
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Avnet Brand Guidelines: Charles Avnet’s 1921 Radio Parts Trade, Farnell & a Tempe HQ
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Avnet Brand Guidelines Charles Avnet’s 1921 radio parts trade, now a Tempe-based distributor.…
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Arrow Electronics Brand Guidelines: A 1935 Radio Row Store Grown Into a Global Distributor
Brand Guidelines · Field Guide Arrow Electronics Brand Guidelines A 1935 Radio Row store grown into a global…
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Gooch & Housego Brand Guidelines: The 1948 Ilminster Optics Shop That Became G&H
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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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