Stumbled on this excellent collection of vintage and minimal identity work created by Noel Martin. Noel Martin was a renown self-taught typographer and designer who studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Martin was celebrated for modernizing museum graphics and industrial trade catalogs. In 1953, he was featured in MoMA’s landmark design exhibition, Four American Designers, along with Herbert Bayer, Leo Lionni, and Ben Shahn.

Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70's edition of the book World of Logotypes. This Flickr set has done the rounds countless times, with views in excess of 4568. Time to include a link to it here.

Not often I just post one photo, but this is beautiful. See the original on Flickr.

Finding some real ace logo sets on Flickr or late, this one is no exception. Various logos, emblems, signs, letterpress blocks of 1950's and 1960's machinery and supply catalogues. Depression Press also has other Flickr sets of typography, design related images.

Had to share this. Commissioned this cartoon illustration of moi for my freelance business, prior to ImJustCreative. At this time, I was going by the name of DigitalSlave and was a multi-disciplined freelance designer.

I'm inviting a discussion on the risks of showing all your sketch ideas for a logo design process. Logo development and design process posts are becoming more popular and are a valuable way to show your work in context. Reading about how other designers reach their final logo designs can be very enlightening to say the least, often showing the rest of us new ways to approach our own logo development.

Lineto is a beauty of a website, leaves you in no doubt the attention to detail lavished on their creations. The website deserves a good rummage around, check out all their fonts, specifically the LL Replica type family for which this specimen book has been created and the focus of this post.