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.

That’s just the kind of design challenge that designers in the past have been given, and thanks to the wonderful website that is letterheady.com you can now take a look and see exactly what Adolf Hitler’s letterhead looked like. You can even see the letterheads of Marvel, Speilberg, Einstein, Houdini, Tesler and Churchill… to name but a few.

Apart from the beautiful simplicity of Hitler’s letterhead, it’s interesting to see such letterheads from the likes of Nikola Tesler, an electrical engineer and one of the key contributors to the invention of commercial electricity. His letterhead has a wonderful illustration that conveys the sheer power and wonder of the mysticism that surrounded early perceptions of electricity. You also have to take your hat off to Disney’s 1961 letterhead, which has to be the most colourful letterhead I have ever seen!

Anyway, when you have some spare time, it really is worth taking a look at some of these fabulous letterhead designs.

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