Content includes:
Book Arts Reporter: The Oxford Conference,
On Type: Robert Bridges, Poet-Typographer
Recent Press Books
The Featured Bookbindings: The Fourteen Faces of Ourika
Reference Shelf
The Book Art of Valenti Angelo: An Homage,
The First Printing Press in America
Cover design by Abe Lerner, New York. Interior typography based on a design by Linnea Gentry, Amaranth Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Composed in Jan van Krimpen’s Monotype Spectrum by Mackenzie-Harris Corp., San Francisco. Engravings by Bill Bratt, Bauer Engraving Co., San Francisco. Letterpress by Wesley B. Tanner & Will H. Powers, Berkeley, California. Offset lithography by Helicon Press, San Francisco.
Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Regional Histories, Studios & Collectives
The identity manual consisted of 130 pages of information and brand usage with Arie J. Geurts heading up the project as design director, (who later headed up his own design studio in Los Angeles). The identity uses minimal colour and focuses on a consistent brand blue in all communications.
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Design Archive Feature, Corporate Identity & Branding, Members Only Content
Paul Rand, one of the most acclaimed American designers is known for his iconic corporate identities, playful illustration and commercial art. Paul wrote the preface for Yusaku Kamakura's book, Trademarks of the World, 1958. He states his influence of Japanese art and design, trademarks as a universal language and his struggles with English grammar.
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Corporate Identity & Branding, Design Archive Feature
Systematic Surface Design eliminating the hindrance of searching for strategies and starting points, allowing designers to quickly find optimal solutions.
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