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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
1 year
Projects: BrandArchive: BP&O: LogoArchive: LogoHistories: Monocle: Nomad Q&A: Brand New Brand
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Just found this delight, an early Dunkin’Donuts logo…
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JKR delivering the fun.
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A Japanese brand guideline from the 90s. Being added to this week.
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What computers did to logos in the late 80s.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Packing zines. Going out tomorrow. Order at
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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How 7UP used to look… Thomas Miller and Morton Goldsholl, 1975. More here:
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Does anyone know who designed the Volta logo?
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
5 months
I’ve been working on a small automated brand guideline maker for designers. This is really for designers working with small budgets and less time. It’s a one shot ‘good-enough’ automated tool, takes less than five mins to set up. Looking for beta-testers, drop me a DM.
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@RichBaird
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8 months
Some very lovely Japanese bird logos.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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😂
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Happy New Year!
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
11 months
Love this. Tiger Thermos by Kohito Obashira, GK Industries, 1983 Japan. Still in use.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Carlsberg plus Arabic version. Great transference of recognisable character, by Thorvald Bindesbøll.
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Rich Baird
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A logo I put together for a Japanese beach tennis pro.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
1 year
Knoll brand guidelines. Logotype by Massimo Vignelli. System Chermayeff & Geismar. #logos #branding #design #knoll #massimovignelli
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Getting technical…
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@RichBaird
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Logotypes got way more interesting in the last two years.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
11 months
Oooph. And this. Fuji by Kyotaro Iimori, 1982, Japan, Retail.
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Rich Baird
4 months
Pages from the 1987 Tiffany brand guidelines.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Today’s job description for a designer is frightening, I don’t have half the experience they want and I’ve been at it for 17 years.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
10 months
Konami by American designer James Cross, 1986 #logos #logo #branding #design
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
11 months
Saw a Western-centric list of graphic designers to study. So, here’s a list of Japanese designers to study as well: Yusaku Kamekura Ikko Tanaka Takenobu Igarashi Motoo Nakanishi Kazumasa Nagai Yasaburo Kuwayama Shigeo Fukuda Shin Matsunaga Tomoko Miho Who did I miss?
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
A little refresh.
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Rich Baird
1 year
Does anyone have any high res scans of the poster by Yusaku Kamekura for Tokyo ‘64?
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Rich Baird
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Made in Italia! A book on Italian logos.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Just come across this ‘environmental poster’ by Paul Rand c.1977. Lovely.
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British Rail Design, 1986
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New • Packaging Coconut Milk by Grinning Face. Packaging by Leo Burnett, Toronto • •
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This set came in today. Beautiful colours. The orange is 🔥 More references materials for
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Rich Baird
2 years
Do you see it?
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LA ‘84 brand guidelines. Logo, colours, pictograms and mascot. By Jim BerteRobert, Miles Runyan & Associates, Keith Bright Associates. Japanese version. Assets coming to very soon. #logos #branding #design #olympics #graphicdesign #logoinspirations
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Love the architectural-typographic posters of Japanese designer Takenobu Igarashi.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Fun logo. More of these please…
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Rich Baird
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Logos.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Lou Dorfsman on 25 years of looking out for CBS. Love. love. love. A poster for a lecture on CBS by Lou Dorfsman. Art direction, design and writing by Jim Donahue.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
1 year
My latest project project @brandarchivexyz is growing. See more at We’ve used a structured data model so you can filter individual assets from all the brands on the site. #logos #branding #logodesign #designhistory #graphicdesign #designtwitter
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Rich Baird
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Added some spares to
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Nagano 1998 Winter Olympics Brand Manual, Part 1 #logos #branding #design
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Rich Baird
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Olivetti headed paper. Adding this and lots of other assets to soon.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Nice work, mid-80s JEAN MARCILLINO
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
10 months
Now have over 100 individual stories of logo design of the past, and now reached 10k newsletter members. Join at #logos #branding #design #history #logo
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Rich Baird
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Daiko by Ikko Tanaka. Brand guidelines, 1982. #design #branding #logos #designtwitter
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Projects: BP&O: LogoArchive: LogoHistories: Interviews: Monocle: Nomad Q&A: Book: Brand New Brand
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This is a gem. One logo from the first round entries to the Electrolux logo redesign competition from the 60s.
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I’m selling a couple of brand guidelines from my collection to make way for a few more. #design #branding #logos #designtwitter
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Put together a little image of some design studio favicon while researching for BP&O. Can you name the studios? A1: Bibliotheque
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Rich Baird
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Recent work.
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A bit late, but just realised the figure is made up of boomerangs…
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Rich Baird
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Daiko Graphic Manual by Japanese designer Ikko Tanaka, 1982. Find these assets on #logos #branding #design #ikkotanaka #japan
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
10 months
Going to work, or going to space? Either way, want.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Graphic Design Issue 17, 1964 with a special feature on the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. Beautifully illustrated with logo variations, typography, colour palettes, pictograms and icons.
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Rich Baird
1 year
Picked up some absolute delights for my next project @brandarchivexyz
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Breaking down Norman Moore’s 1988 logo for Filmstar Motion Pictures for the LogoArchive School of Design lecture / workshop tomorrrow.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Love this new Magnum campaign.
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Love these.
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Rich Baird
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Louis Dorfsman. Finish this sentence. This is…
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Rich Baird
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National Grid by John McConnell & Justus Oehler, Pentagram, 1990, Great Britain. Discover more British logos at #logos #branding #logodesign #designhistory #graphicdesign #logodesign
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An invitation…
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Just digging through old work. This was an idea for a modular family home builder.
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Rich Baird
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Safety posters for industry by Italian designer Eugenio Carmi. Eyes, hands and head. Silk-screened on to metal.
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Rich Baird
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Trump Corp, 1975. By Roger Ferriter. Mind-boggling, in more ways than one…
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Rich Baird
2 years
Love this bit of self-promotion by British poster designer and teacher Tom Eckersley.
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Rich Baird
5 years
Symbol concept for a design studio.
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Rich Baird
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Love the Italia 90 poster series. Spectacle, history, modernity. All together. Nice.
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Rich Baird
2 years
Some recent logo work.
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What’s the typeface?
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Rich Baird
1 year
Does anyone know which studio was responsible for this little bit of fun from 2003? #branding #ebay #designtwitter
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
This is what the changes in the Instagram algorithm has pushed me from and to in the last year. I’m actually quite glad. Change is difficult, but it’s necessary.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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The Marks & Spencer rebrand,2000 by, I think, @FutureBrand ? Can anyone confirm?
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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New Logo for Steve Currie Design, a commercial kitchen designer and spatial specialist.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
10 months
Zines and things for @typocircle later today with @Neue_Miller at St. Brides. Tickets
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Rich Baird
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Working with a healthcare tech start-up atm.
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Rich Baird
4 years
The Geology of the Billboard.
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Rich Baird
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Well this is sweet. Only in Japan. #logodesign #logos #japan
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KLM assets, by Henrion Design Associates, 1961
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Rich Baird
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Just added this to the library. Logo by Massimo Vignelli, guidelines by Chermayeff & Geismar. Coming soon to #logos #branding #design #vignelli
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Rich Baird
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Do remember this? Tomy by Seiichi Ichigoku & Minoru Taniai, 1981.
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Billboard Landscape Series.
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Rich Baird
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Just added Whitney by Experimental Jetset, 2013 to Looking back, you realise what a pioneer this was for a museum at the time. #branding #design #logodesign #logos #museums
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Rich Baird
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Enjoying my adventures into 1980s Japanese corporate identity design. Slowly adding these to
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Landor Associates, 1999.
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Delighted to have been able to design a symbol for Marx Design / @ryanthemarx Pencil striking a notebook.
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Time Survey by Seldon Dix and Walter Lefmann, 1973. Nice.
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Version 1 of Brand Basics’ automated Brand Guideline maker. → More updates coming soon. No subscription, one-off fee £10
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Rich Baird
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Knoll fax layout guideline, 1993 Full set of assets going up on soon.
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
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Anyone know who designed the Zelman Meats logo?
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@RichBaird
Rich Baird
2 years
Didn’t know there was a colour version of Ian Dennis & FHK Henrion’s National Theatre logo. Was this an ‘official’ colour way, or just pulled from a campaign?
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Rich Baird
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Advert for Neiman-Marcus by Ann Vaingre and Don Clark-America. Nice.
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I don’t understand this tweet.
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The B Series covers the design elements of historical brands such as Mazda, Spar and Blue Circle. These cases are broken down into type, colour, logos and applications #logos #logo #icon #design #branding #graphicdesign
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Rich Baird
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Love! Cover: Communication Graphics, AIGA, 1969 by Peter Bradford & Gary Fujiwara. #design #posters #designhistory #graphicdesign
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Interesting. Pentagram updates Westinghouse, keeping the logo and developing Rand’s custom typeface.
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If a classic logo isn’t broken, why fix it? #PaulaScher & team have collaborated with @W__Home on a brand refresh that extends Paul Rand’s iconic Westinghouse logo into a contemporary identity system, complete with custom typeface
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Wow. You don’t get more minimal than the logos of Japanese designer Rei Yoshimura - discover more minimal logos at
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Rich Baird
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Another one, this time by John Massey for ‘Montaigne on living the point’.
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Volumes 1 & 2 are pretty definitive, most later books are derivatives of these tomes. Pioneering work by Kuwayama to document as much as possible. #logos #graphicdesign #branding #brandarchive #logoinspiration #brand #design
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Rich Baird
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Design of a Ikko Tanaka. Now on eBay:
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Just added these delightful Expo 75 postcards to the Brand Archive page:
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