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These include manuals for Canadian National Railways (1965); New York City Transit Authority (1970); Olivetti (1971); NASA (1976); PTT [Dutch postal\/telephone services] (1989); and RAC (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe photography is accompanied by a foreword by the late Massimo Vignelli, an afterword by designer Lance Wyman, and texts from Adrian Shaughnessy, Richard Danne, Martha Fleming, Greg D'Onofrio, and Patricia Belen. 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