[Book design is the art of designing books.]
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Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice
Third in the heavily subsidised series ‘Graphic design in the Netherlands’, Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice takes on the difficult task of exploring and striving to elucidate the work of Jan van Toorn (JvT), a designer who is not always clear...
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Microtipografia: Il progetto dei nuovi dizionari Collins
L'Art Director di Collins descrive il procedimento seguito per il progetto di una nuova serie di dizionari, dal punto di vista storico, del layout e della scelta dei caratteri. Data la scala alla quale il contenuto del dizionario viene espresso, e il...
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Sandberg, Designer and Director of Stedelijk
Graphic designer Willem Sandberg became the director of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 1945. From that time until 1962 he designed almost all the printed matter for the Stedelijk and transformed the museum, introducing new ideas into the stuffy...
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Microtypography, Designing the new Collins dictionaries
The art director of Collins describes the process of designing the new set of dictionaries, their history, layout and choice of type. Due to the scale at which a dictionary’s content is expressed and the particular way in which the content is read,...
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Warren Chappell
Born 1904 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, died 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; type designer, book designer, illlustrator. Studied with Rudolf Koch in Offenbach, Germany as a punch cutter and type designer. Chappell produced much work with the...
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Jost Hochuli
Is a graphic designer and typographer working in St Gallen, East Switzerland. Brought up in the orthodoxy of modernist ‘Swiss typography’, his work shows a gradual diversification away from that single-track approach. This book is a fruit of...
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Irma Boom
Irma Boom (1960) is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specializing in book design.
She worked for five years at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office , which works nationally...
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Jaap van Triest
Jaap van Triest (1957) is a graphic and editorial designer. He designed numerous magazines (Forum, Vormberichten, etc.), publications in collaboration with visual artists, architects (Karel Martens Printed Matter, Wim Crouwel – Mode en module,...
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