Inspiration: UN Postage Stamps

Whatever you may think of the UN, when a huge organization commissions its image to be represented on a tiny surface you better believe that some very very careful thought goes into design.

Inspiration: the work of Herb Lubalin

From the 1940s to the 1980s Herb Lubalin worked as type designer, creative and advertising director. The essence of his aesthetics was letting the letter forms illustrate the message as much as the words for which he preferred the term "TYPOgraphics".

 

Inspiration: El Al Playing Cards from 1970s

1970s playing cards produced by El Al and illustrated by Jean David. ....The cards are indeed beautiful and are also nice depictions of the biblical characters - wise Solomon with his scrolls, Jonathan with his arrows, Samson with his jawbone, etc., and reflect the tradition of representing the legendary or historical characters on cards.