Posts Tagged ‘Nikola Tesler’

Posted by
Julian Gratton
April 15th, 2010

Letterheads of the rich, famous and… infamous!

by Julian Gratton

Hitler's letterhead design. Imagine opening an envelope and seeing this at the top of the communication!At Red C we love letterheads. Which is probably a good thing since we’ve designed quite a few over the years. In some cases, a letterhead is the first thing that many a customer or client sees when dealing with a business, so having one that is aesthetically pleasing, impactful, memorable and professional is incredibly important. It’s safe to say, though, that designing a letterhead for a business is relatively a straightforward design challenge.

So imagine, for example, if instead of a business, we were tasked with designing the letterhead of say… the leader of the Third Reich. Or maybe a scientific genius, a film director, an animation company, a master magician or the Prime Minister. I wonder how we’d go about designing then.

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