In Issue 22 of Logo Histories’ Research Archive I have picked out assets from a newly found document on the DSB identity, which includes some lovely rolling stock drawings. Also, assets from the Sony brand from 1973 and Otl Aicher’s work for lighting design and manufacturing business ERCO designed in 1974.
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DSB
Jens Neilsen & Niels Hartmann
1970, Denmark
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Sony
Yasuo Kuroki (Logo, 1953)
1973, Japan
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ERCO
Otl Aicher
1974, Germany
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