Bayer’s Atlas is serving as good inspiration for a current project, check out the atlas in it’s entirity on flickr thanks to Prof. Michael Stoll at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany (they have an awesome logo).

The amazing Piet Zwart. Read more for all images.

A pioneer of modern typography, designer Piet Zwart was influenced by Constructivism and De Stijl. His influence shows in his work and in this quote: …to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow… . Zwart worked as a designer, typographer, photographer and industrial designer in the Netherlands in the 1920s and 30s. Primarily working for the NKF Company, he created many works of graphic design before retiring from the company to spend the rest of his days as an interior and furniture designer. – designishistory.com

Image series gathered by David Karawan.

Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are the husband and wife team Tugboat Printshop. Since 2006, they have been working together, creating contemporary artwork through traditional printmaking. Tugboat Printshop’s goal is to use printmaking to bring original art to more people. Tugboat Printshop is based in Pittsburgh, PA. Learn more about them at tugboatprintshop.com, they have lots of photos of their process and works in progress.

This is an image set of Yale University Art Gallery covers.
Above image by Seymour Chwast.

More after the jump.

Here are some images from an ad campaign in the late 90′s by Emerica, a skateboarding and footwear company. This campaign was back when magazine advertisements were actually well designed. There are more years in the Ad Archive, but this group is the best by far.

Below is a selection of covers and spreads from various promotional literature for salesmen dated anywhere from 1950 to 1979.

Below is a collection of layouts from an old exhibition in Tehran showing various graphic design from Iran in the 1980′s. Enjoy.

Below is an image collection of the socialist magazine, The Masses.

Below is an image collection of various text book covers and spreads (writing, math, science) from Iran given to me by my parents.