Standards Manual is an independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in New York City in 2014.
Our mission is to archive and preserve artifacts of design history and make them available to future generations. From reprinted graphics standards manuals to new compendiums of archival work, our titles always aim to make great design available to all.
As designers ourselves, we value high quality books. As an independent publisher, we produce our books using only the finest papers, printing, and finishing methods. We don’t cut corners when it comes to quality.
Vanity Fair
The New York Times
Gizmodo
Human Being
Wired
A/D/O Journal
The Verge
Design Milk
Curbed New York
Designed by Massimo Vignelli
and Bob Noorda, Unimark
ISBN 978-0-692-49695-4
First published in 2014 as a full-size limited edition version.
Designed by Richard Danne
and Bruce Blackburn,
Danne and Blackburn
ISBN 978-0-692-58653-2
Published 2015
Designed by
Bruce Blackburn
ISBN 978-0-692-77468-7
Published 2016
From the collection
of Brian Kelley
ISBN 978-0-692-90255-4
Published 2017
Designed by
Steff Geissbühler, Chermayeff & Geismar Associates
ISBN 978-0-692-87830-9
Published 2017
ISBN 978-0-692-95523-9
Published 2018
From the collection of Brian Kelley
ISBN 978-0-578-46982-9
Published 2019
From the NASA archives
ISBN 978-0-578-70108-0
Published 2020
Co-published with
Gary Hustwit
ISBN 978-0-9895321-6-7
Published 2021
A Visual Language of
Two-Way Radio
ISBN 978-0-578-39052-9
Published 2022
For North American distribution (USA/Canada) please contact Standards Manual directly: contact@standardsmanual.com. For outside North America, please contact Thames & Hudson: sales@thameshudson.co.uk