Five pound note, 1971

Harry Eccleston worked for more than 25 years as a banknote designer at the Bank of England and was best known for the series D notes, issued in 1978 and the first fully pictorial series. Eccleston’s portrait of the Queen was on the front of the notes and his drawings of Isaac Newton (£1), the Duke of Wellington (£5), Florence Nightingale (£10), Shakespeare (£20) and Christopher Wren (£50) were on the reverse. He also designed a 50-pence note bearing the figure of Sir Walter Raleigh but it was judged that, in a time of galloping inflation, the life of such a low-denomination note would be short and so a coin was minted instead. His original drawings of the Queen and of Wren were presented to her and in the same year he was appointed OBE.

Reverse Five Pound Note

The five pound note seen here features on the obverse the Queen’s portrait with the reverse featuring the first Duke of Wellington and a scene from the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro (1811) during the peninsula war.

A Book of Scripts

A Book of Scripts

First published in 1949, in the King Penguin series. The cover design is an adaptation by Jan Tischichold from a design by Juan de Vicar, 1547.

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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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.

Panic Crown

One of the many derivative of the posters made famous by Barter books, who are the people who found and brought to light one of the few surviving originals, which were printed in 1939 never used, and now 70 years later have found a new resonance.

Now you can make your own version with the George VI crown (third row from the top, second from left in the pdf file). The font used on the original is the legendary sans serif font design developed by Edward Johnston for the London Underground system in 1916. Our version uses a similar face by a pupil of Johnston’s – Gill sans.