Typophile

stationery / letterheads books ?

nlx

Libraries are full of crappy letterheads+stationery books; but i miss to have ever seen a good one.

I found only one to be somewhat usefull that is : Designer’s Sationery from Roger Walton.
Its not great but good.

Do you have any great references ?

So theres nothing ? its what i was afraid off !!!

Rockport has all sorts of books on that subject:

http://www.rockpub.com/

As i said I know theres tons of books about letterheads and i think 99% are crap.

So what i’m searchin is references of good ones.

define ’good’

easy :

good = not evil

seriously, i don’t think anyone can define ’good’ design

but i can show you what is evil :

what’s evil about this? It’s stylized approach for a

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