InDesign script

If you design book covers and use InDesign this script is a fabulous time saver:

see here

'New Improved button card'

Button card kindly sent by

Ellie Alexandri

http://ealexandri.blogspot.com

Robert & Dorothy Heritage sideboard

Designed in the early 1960s. Robert Heritage designed the piece and Dorothy Heritage, a textile designer, illustrated the panels. 

lino cutter tool box

old litho crayon box

The graphics of sewing

Graphis Diagrams

A spread from Graphis Diagrams, Graphis Press Corp (1983), The diagram represents a production plan for the manufacture of crankshafts.

Printed Ephemera

A spread from Printed Ephemera by John Lewis published by Faber and Faber (1969) the second spot colour changes every 32pp section, printing 1 back 2.

The Layton Type Specifier

A typeface specifier, the box is silk screened and the specimen sheets are all on newsprint. The bottom left pic illustrates a 'how to' colour mark up on tracing paper.

Evening class in lettering, Birkenhead, 1955

Pic taken from 'Signwriting Art' by AJ Lewery, published by David & Charles, sadly out of print.