Public Design
Design commissioned by states and municipalities for everyone at once, where a public requirement, whether a road sign standard or resistance to forgery, dictates the form.
Dictionary entry
- WPA Poster 1935–1943 / Style
Carries a public purpose broadly and forcefully through simple imagery and few printed colors.
- Festival of Britain Style 1951–1950s / Style
Postwar Britain's bright modernism spreading from the 1951 festival site: thin legs, molecular patterns and light script faces turning post-austerity optimism into a national visual language.
- Mexico 68 Identity 1966–1968 / Style
The Olympic identity Wyman built for Mexico City: concentric lines radiating from the logotype into venues, uniforms and stamps, fusing Op art with folk art and wrapping a whole city in pulsing imagery.
- Banknote Guilloche 18th century– / Technique
The banknote style in which lathe-cut guilloche curves and engraved portraits refuse forgery while making credit visible. America's 1896 Educational Series raised the banknote to allegorical masterpiece.
- U.S. Web Design System 2015– / Style
A shared system for accessible, mobile-friendly and trustworthy U.S. federal web services, built from tested public-service patterns.
- NHS Design System 2016– / Style
The NHS system makes urgent health information and services calm, direct and consistent through plain language, strong focus states and tested clinical patterns.