About Logo Histories

Design history is on the decline, increasingly absent from our educational institutions or packaged up into simplisitic social posts. Logo Histories offers practicing designers, students and self-taught designers important contextual detail to the foundations of contemporary design practice. All in the convenient format of a newsletter! We focus primarily on logos but also cover corporate identity and the historical context that gave shape to these.

It isn’t a comprehensive design history, but subscribing will give you a better sense of how and why, and connect you to the thinking of the pioneering designers and studios of the past.

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Free is cool, if you have $5 to spend a month, consider upgrading to paid, this helps me source new materials and share stories with students and young designers for free. If you can’t, you can’t. No hard feelings!

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The LogoArchive Logo Histories newsletter goes directly to your inbox. If you miss one, all of the past issues are archived here on this site. We have some great Logo Histories coming, as well as some fascinating bonus stories. Join us! Please note, if you are a free subscriber, you will receive weekly previews of all newsletters, and once a month will receive a full Logo History.

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