8 Letterheads: The Howard Bond letterhead portfolio by eight contemporary designers

There are many reasons it’s great to get things from Steven Heller. The top reason is that he has great things. The second-top reason is that when we’re lucky, he’s written about an item, and it saves us a lot of work. He’s written about this particular item in Print. Here’s what he had to say on December 25, 2016:

With the veritable end of letter writing, the important job of designing letterheads may go the way of the wax seal. This artifact of letterhead virtuosity below is one of the choice items in the pantheon of designed stationery.

Alas, I could only scan a few of the eight Howard Bond how-to portfolio pieces by the likes of Saul Bass, Will Burtin and others. But enjoy what there is on this Boxing Day.

That was a little on the light-side, but it was Xmas Day. We’ll fill in the blanks by reporting that in this item you’ll see samples of letterheads alongside sketches and notes. It’s a good how-to, made in an effort to sell you paper. A rare thing hardly acknowledged by the Internet and databases.