8vo, Pentagram - Lot with 2 publications on design studio 8vo and Pentagram’s partners - 2005-2008

8vo and Pentagram. Lot with 2 publications on design studio 8vo and Pentagram’s partners – 2005 – 2008

Contains:

Mark Holt & Hamish Muir, 8vo On the outside. Baden / Switserland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2005. 536 p. Written and designed by Mark Holt & Hamish Muir.

Founded in London in 1984 by Mark Holt, Simon Johnston, and Hamish Muir, 8vo was one of the most influential design studios in the 1980s and continues to be significant in the design world today. The design studio used traditional, craft-based working methods but an experimental approach to design in order to anticipate the computer-aided aesthetic of the 90s. The magazine Octavo, published in eight issues from 1986 to 1992 has long held cult status and is thoroughly documented here, along with the background against which it emerged. 8vo's work pushed back the boundaries of commercial design, and was a key factor in preparing the way for many contemporary designers. Designed and written by two of the studio's partners, this attractive, chunky-format book will be a delight to students and practioners of architecture, design, and art alike. 


and

Pentagram: Marks: 400 Symbols and Logotypes: 400 Symbols and Logos. Pentagram 2008. Not paginated (c. 408 p.). ISBN: 978 1 85669 611 1.

The 400 marks reproduced within these pages represent the diverse array of identity work produced by Pentagram’s partners, past and present, since its founding in 1972. Over the past four decades, Pentagram has designed marks for large corporations and small businesses, government agencies and nonprofit institutions, clubs and societies, and even individuals, all of whom were seeking a representative symbol to appear on letterhead and books, buildings and websites, and everywhere else imaginable. 
Isolating them in black and white helps us appreciate these marks as unique pictorial or abstract symbols. But a logo is rarely a solitary commission. Often produced in conjunction with a unified graphics, architecture or product design program, it is only part of the work Pentagram does. But regardless of the nature of the assignment, clients all share the same desire to be identified, and the belief that the right mark is a crucial starting point for a comprehensive visual identity. 


Both books are in excellent condition and contain no underlining or notes.
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