Section
Brochures & Manuals
Sales catalogues, workshop manuals and the technical illustration that made them work.
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Issue 04
Collecting Paper Without Buying Rubbish
Motoring print is one of the last genuinely cheap collecting fields, which means most of what is offered is worth what it costs, which is nothing. -
Issue 01
Why Car Brochures Were Art-Directed Like Fashion Shoots
For thirty years the most expensive photography in Britain was not in magazines. It was in something given away free at a dealership. -
Issue 01
Paper Stock and the Feel of Money
The single clearest signal of what a car cost is not in the photography. It is in the weight and finish of the sheet it was printed on. -
Issue 01
The Exploded Diagram
The workshop manual invented a way of drawing that has since been borrowed by furniture makers, software documentation and everyone who has ever assembled a flat pack.