Zig Zag

The Zig Zag company was founded in 1879 by Maurice and Jacques Braunstein. Based in Paris, in 1882 the company built the Papeterie de Gassicourt, a cigarette paper production plant near the town of Mantes-la-Jolie. In 1894 they invented the process of “interleaving” rolling papers.

They called their papers Zig-Zag, after the term used to describe the alternate interleaving process. In 1900, Zig-Zag was awarded a gold medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

The character portrayed on the front of Zig-Zag products, colloquially known as the “Zig-Zag man”, originates from a folk story about a Zouave, a French colonial soldier at the battle of Sevastopol during the Crimean war. When the soldier’s clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco into a cigarette using a piece of paper torn from his bag of gunpowder.

The Empire Strikes Back

Penguin - War of the Worlds

An imaginary Penguin book design based on the War of the Worlds original, more originals and re-workings can be found at
little pixel, and The Pelican Project and Joe Kral’s flickr set.

The design and the artwork you are about to download is the intellectual property of the copyright and/or trademark holder and is offered to you as a convenience for lawful use with proper permission from the copyright and/or trademark holder only.

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LE-H-17

World of Logotypes

This is a vector file made from a page of the out-of-print publication, World of Logotypes: Trademark Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 by Al Cooper (1978) Sourced from Eric Carl’s Design and Illustration blog where he has posted good scans also links at Scott Hansen’s ISO50.

L10-24 Logotypes.pdf

The Multinationals

A logo is a graphical element (ideogram, symbol, emblem, icon, sign) that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand.

Typically, a logo is designed for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images are usually different from others in the same market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.’ Extract from Wikipedia.org

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The file offered for download is a collection of vector logotypes relating to a classic Pelican book design, other examples can be found at little pixel, The Pelican Project and  Joe Kral’s flickr set.

The above logo designs and the artwork you are about to download is the intellectual property of the copyright and/or trademark holder and is offered to you as a convenience for lawful use with proper permission from the copyright and/or trademark holder only.