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New book highlights how much graphic designers can learn from the small ads of yesteryear

Creative Boom

If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did. Now, they're returning to their publishing roots with their latest book, Classified: Local Ads from America's Small Towns.

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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has just found its perfect home

Creative Boom

This will be the largest and most comprehensive catalogue of a single British illustrator, promising to provide unique insights into the 20th and 21st-century worlds of storytelling and publishing. As a location, the atmospheric Grade II listed engine house is a fitting one.

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London Original Print Fair moves to Somerset House for its 37th edition

Creative Boom

Deborah Azzopardi, The Great Escape, 2014, Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Founded in 1985, London Original Print Fair is an unrivalled opportunity for people to view and buy original prints from top international dealers, publishers and studios. Picasso 'Grande Tête de Jacqueline au Chapeau'. Picasso 'Le repas frugal'.

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16 of the best online shops to buy original art prints for your home

Creative Boom

Jealous Gallery Founded in 2008, Jealous is an artist-led, fine-art print publisher and studio with a physical gallery space in east London. Prints published and printed by Jealous are in numerous museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum and the Whitworth in Manchester. in London in 2014.

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Order's Jesse Reed on launching your own design agency and following your creative dreams

Creative Boom

In 2014 he teamed up with fellow Pentagram designer Hamish Smyth to found the publishing imprint Standards Manual. We were already doing the publishing company Standards Manual together, and that was going really well and taking up so much of our spare time. But being somewhat of a restless spirit, he didn't stop there.

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10 pieces of advice from famous authors to make you more creative

Creative Boom

One of the most beloved American writers of both the 20th and 21st centuries, Maya Angelou (1928-2014) knew instinctively that this was wrong. But she continued writing for the rest of her life, publishing her last book at age 85. Her words should inspire all of us and empower anyone who fears the 'well' running dry.

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A Tribute To Nature: Standards Manual Releases Parks 2

Design Milk

Publisher Standards Manual returns with a brilliant green second edition of their first book, Parks , an anthem to graphic design in collaboration with photographer Brian Kelley , now in its fifth reprint. Standards Manual is a 2014 independent publisher founded by New York-based designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth.