Slate linked to an upcoming Taschen book titled Logo Modernism. As Taschen’s site describes it,

This unprecedented TASCHEN publication, authored by Jens Müller, brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity.

Seeing the Slate link reminded me that I’ve had Logo Lounge sitting in an open tab in my browser for, well, months…

I’ll never be a great graphics designer (I’d rather code), but anyone who works with graphics (even if it’s only coding a web framework that “consumes” graphics) ought to seek inspiration from others’ works.