The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) published the fifth edition of its HVAC Systems Duct Design Manual, which is available digitally and in print. This ...

Ever wonder about the NYC’s subway signage? Most New Yorkers who use the subway daily have probably never heard of the design firm Unimark. In 1970, designers Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda of ...

Before the Internet, printed graphics standards manuals were practical tools for designers. Today, they sell for $80 a pop. In 2012, Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, along with their ...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has adopted a new standard that provides much-needed guidance to manufacturers for meeting their "duty to warn" for the content of product and safety ...

Many companies are reproducing old graphics standards manuals, like NASA’s 1975 graphics standards manual. As part of the movement to revitalize the past, Canadian graphic designer and art director ...

Perhaps it’s the contemporary obsession with nostalgia, but somehow, just like Brutalism, dated design manuals have made a comeback. Thanks to a few within the design industry—notably “typomaniac” ...

Standards Manual is an independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reedand Hamish Smyth to archive and preserve artifacts of design history and make them available to future generations.

NASA may have just thrown some serious shade at the creators of a newly launched Kickstarter campaign. Last week, New York-based graphic designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth started a Kickstarter ...