Manuals : Design and Identity Guidelines, Hardcover by Vignelli, Massimo (FRW), ISBN 0500028826, ISBN-13 9780500028827, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

In today's landscape, designers rely on templates to implement brand identities—fast, accurate, and easily updatable, these manuals are now obligatory. But we have lost something in the transition to style guides, and the great printed standards manuals from the pre era deserve a better fate than to be junked. This comprehensive study of corporate design manuals from the golden era of identity design makes a compelling case for their survival and continued forty-two manuals featured have been expertly photographed, retaining all essential details, and are presented in a spacious and functional layout, allowing readers to fully appreciate these wonderful examples of sophisticated information photography is accompanied by a foreword by the late Massimo Vignelli, an afterword by designer Lance Wyman, and texts from Adrian Shaughnessy, Richard Danne (NASA designer), Martha Fleming (daughter of Allan Fleming, designer of the Canadian National Railway logo), Greg D'Onofrio, and Patricia Belen, alongside interviews with Armin Vit, Sean Perkins, John Lloyd, Michael Burke, Sean Wolcott, Liza Enebeis, and John Bateson.