Our new ‘Book of the Month’ feature provides an opportunity to turn the spotlight on our back catalogue. Until 28 February we’re offering FHK Henrion: The Complete Designer at a special price of £58.50Our first choice for the retrospective treatment is FHK Henrion: The Complete Designer. Why? Because it’s our belief that Henrion has no equal in British graphic design. No UK designer – then or now – can match his depth of accomplishments and range of abilities. Born in Germany in 1914, he trained as a textile designer before becoming a poster artist. As a British citizen after WWII, he designed publications, exhibitions, household products, interiors and jewellery, and in the 1960s he became the most important figure in modern corporate identity...

Tony Brook: I was introduced to Ben Bos through Wim Crouwel. I had seen Ben’s fabulous book ‘Design of a lifetime’ published by BIS in the Spin studio and was blown away by his work. On a visit to Amsterdam with Warren Beeby, I asked Wim if it might be possible to meet Ben, he pulled out his mobile phone (a surprise in itself, though I’m not sure why) and 30 seconds later I had an appointment. I confess, I was daunted, however the welcome from Ben and his wife Elly was so incredibly warm and effusive that any nerves soon evaporated. They asked to see Spin’s work, their response was unadulterated enthusiasm accompanied by (frankly embarrassing) praise, if he approved...

After the wonderful support we received for our Manuals 1 Kickstarter campaign (120% funded), we’re delighted to be already half way through our next one – The Lance Wyman Visual Diaries: 1973—1982.  Throughout his long career, Lance has kept a daily record of his creative processes. These include working drawings for logos; detailed specifications for complex urban wayfinding systems; sketches for typefaces; notes to himself and records of conversations; details of his travel arrangements; colour swatches; photographic reference and other forms of printed ephemera. More than sketchbooks, more than scrap books, they reveal the creative processes of a graphic master – they are The Lance Wyman Visual Diaries. All the pages of Lance Wyman’s diaries have been photographed and made into a...

The Japanese magazine Idea is one of the most important and long-lived graphic design publications in the world. It began publishing in 1953, and since then it has consistently occupied a position at the forefront of the international graphic design scene. Initially the magazine functioned as a shop window for designers around the world: to be ‘showcased’ in Idea was to be acknowledged as a significant figure in world design. In more recent years, and now under the editorship of Kiyonori Muroga, the magazine has developed a more critical position. It is widely seen as having a sharp eye for significant and game changing developments in international graphic design. For designers in the West, to be featured in Idea is a badge of achievement to be worn with pride.Idea has always made high-grade reproduction and state-of-the-art printing as...

Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines sold out shortly after we published it in 2014. But now, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, we’re once again able to offer our readers this comprehensive study of corporate identity design manuals from the 20th century.

Unit Editions’ designer Rachel Dalton recently returned from a week in New York, shooting material for future publications. Thanks to the generosity of Sasha Tochilovsky, curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Rachel had access to some of the wonderful, historically significant non-Lubalin material held by the institution.