Time flies when you are having fun – and plenty of fun we have had during the first twenty years of Thomas Manss & Company. 1993 saw the advent of ‘Ordnung & Eccentricity’ – the blend of English wit and a German sense of order...
Working with clients all around the world we are frequently having to spell the Thomas Manss & Company name. While the English-speaking world happily converses using the nato Phonetic Alphabet – a collection of apparently random...
Welcome to the world of Thomas Manss & Company. A place where designers and developers are as diplomatic as the English, as precise as the Germans, as flexible as the Brazilians and as well turned out as the Italians. We hope you...
We were living and working ‘united in diversity’ long before the motto was officially adopted by the European Union in the year 2000. Nothing exemplifies the idea better than this collection of European landmarks. They invite you on a...
All typefaces have character. The challenge in logo design is to use that character to evoke personality – and then to communicate that in a way that transcends language. But how do you achieve that? Of course it helps if you can see it...
The web is everywhere. It not only replaces pub visits and your CD collection, but also encyclopedia and dictionary. In this little book, we have put the web’s translation skills to the test.
Colours are a universally understood part of the designer’s vocabulary, while words more often than not only make sense to the few who speak the same language.
Each diagram in this little booklet represents a national flag. The...
This little booklet includes examples of a special kind of harmony: a harmony of colour and sound. It is inspired by the peculiar phenomenon of multiple sensation or “synesthesia”. Synesthetic people can taste words, see sounds or hear...
Every organisation, every product, every installation and building has a unique personality. Our role as designers is to give this visual expression, with a little added magic to make it memorable. For the projects in this little book...
Not so much designers as storytellers, mythmakers, fabulators and tellers of tales. Thomas Manss & Company combine wit, visual subtlety and a narrative approach to create identities, literature, websites and environmental graphics...
As designers, we dedicate our lives to solving problems. Necessity is the mother of our inventions. For one reason or another, the ideas in this book never saw the light of day, which makes us wonder whether they were a designer’s...
'There is an untold pleasure in a sneak peek. A quick look through a stranger's curtains, a glowing window spotted on an evening walk or an opportunistic glance through an open door. You can't help it. Because what's...
This book celebrates London and Berlin, the two cities we first called home. Their flair and excitement continue to fuel our work. The blend of Ordnung & Eccentricity" – a German sense of order and a dash of English quirkiness...
As designers, curiosity is our driving force. The passionate desire to unearth the unusual fuels our ideas. Not all of our discoveries are usable or even useful, sometimes they are just curious. One such curiosity is this collection of...
The essays that provide the structure of Ordnung & Eccentricity, published by Die Gestalten, explores what makes design so compelling. It looks at wit and humour, design for business, colour, the role of stationery, the art of...
Some things are inextricably linked at Thomas Manss & Company: London & Berlin, Design & Typography, Ordnung & Eccentricity – the pairs in this booklet take a light-hearted look at who we are and what we do
On the arduous journey to a memorable design – or a sensible business decision – we frequently encounter situations where our mind is tricked by subliminal undercurrents: thinking traps. This booklet unveils the most conspicuous bumps...
While images are thought of as a universal language, words have wondrous ways of expressing cultural quirks: some are easily understood, some are adopted by everybody and others are linguistic gems that cannot be translated without...
