First edition, first printing of this landmark document in the history of twentieth century graphic design and environmental wayfinding. 4to (8.5” x 11”), printed wrappers, 228 unnumbered pages, b/w and two-tone illustrations. Prepared by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for the U.S. Department of Transportation and published in November, 1974 as DOT-OS-40192, Symbol Signs codified the now-ubiquitous system of passenger and pedestrian pictograms used in airports, railway stations, and public facilities throughout the world. The report presented the initial set of thirty-four transportation symbols that would become the foundation of the internationally recognized AIGA/DOT symbol system. Committee members included Thomas Geismar, Seymour Chwast, Rudolph de Harak, John Lees, and Massimo Vignelli, with additional research and development by Roger Cook and Don Shanosky. Although no individual design credit is given, the publication itself stands as an exemplary artifact of 1970s American modernist information design, its austere typographic program strongly recalling the visual language associated with Vignelli and Unimark during the period. An increasingly desirable primary source for collectors of graphic design, signage, and modernist visual culture. From the library of NYC-based graphic designer David Leigh, with his stamp on the title page and the bottom edge of the text block, and his nomenclature on the spine (Symbol Signs/DOT). Creasing to spine. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities, with chipping to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities. Content NF.
First edition, first printing of this landmark document in the history of twentieth century graphic design and environmental wayfinding. 4to (8.5” x 11”), printed wrappers, 228 unnumbered pages, b/w and two-tone illustrations. Prepared by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for the U.S. Department of Transportation and published in November, 1974 as DOT-OS-40192, Symbol Signs codified the now-ubiquitous system of passenger and pedestrian pictograms used in airports, railway stations, and public facilities throughout the world. The report presented the initial set of thirty-four transportation symbols that would become the foundation of the internationally recognized AIGA/DOT symbol system. Committee members included Thomas Geismar, Seymour Chwast, Rudolph de Harak, John Lees, and Massimo Vignelli, with additional research and development by Roger Cook and Don Shanosky. Although no individual design credit is given, the publication itself stands as an exemplary artifact of 1970s American modernist information design, its austere typographic program strongly recalling the visual language associated with Vignelli and Unimark during the period. An increasingly desirable primary source for collectors of graphic design, signage, and modernist visual culture. From the library of NYC-based graphic designer David Leigh, with his stamp on the title page and the bottom edge of the text block, and his nomenclature on the spine (Symbol Signs/DOT). Creasing to spine. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities, with chipping to bottom edge of rear wrapper. Moderate bumping and rubbing to extremities. Content NF.
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