For nearly 350 years the slide rule was considered the ultimate calculating tool. As beautiful and complex as fine pocket watches, slide rules are works of art and marvels of science.
For nearly 350 years the slide rule was considered the ultimate calculating tool. As beautiful and complex as fine pocket watches, slide rules are works of art and marvels of science. Lance Knobel's collection, published in Pentagram Papers 33: The Slide Rule Vanishes, charts the different variations along with some of their uses.
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Retrospective: London Design Festival
London Design Festival has been an annual celebration of the power of creativity for over 20 years. Since 2008, Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa has served as the LDF’s creative director, responsible every September for the design of a new visual identity. By inventively remixing a few key elements — typography, a signature red (“the colour of London”), and LDF's simple monogram — the program unifies hundreds of events while reaffirming London’s status as a global design capital.
Retrospective: London Design Festival
London Design Festival has been an annual celebration of the power of creativity for over 20 years. Since 2008, Pentagram partner Domenic Lippa has served as the LDF’s creative director, responsible every September for the design of a new visual identity. By inventively remixing a few key elements — typography, a signature red (“the colour of London”), and LDF's simple monogram — the program unifies hundreds of events while reaffirming London’s status as a global design capital.
