BOOK DESIGN OF GRAPHIC DESIGNERS IN THE WORLD
Mikado Koyanagi
Mikado Koyanagi: BOOK DESIGN OF GRAPHIC DESIGNERS IN THE WORLD. Tokyo: PIE Books, 2007. First edition. Text in Japanese. Small quarto. Decorated glossy wrappers. Printed dust jacket. 213 pp. 119 color plates. Text illustrations. A fine copy. Rare.
6 x 8.25 softcover book with 240 pages and 119 full-page color plates of international modern book design and typography. If you want to own just one book on modern book design, this is the one to have on your shelf. Beautifully designed and produced volume on modern book design and typography-- my highest recommendation.
- Imagination: 10 pages of Champion paper promotion
- U.S.A.
- Paul Rand: 10 pages
- Saul Bass: 4 pages
- Leo Lionni: 6 pages
- Pushpin Studios: 6 pages
- Ivan Chermayeff: 8 pages
- Antonio Frasconi: 8 pages
- William Wondriska: 8 pages
- Herb Lubalin: 8 pages
- Alexey Brodovich: 2 pages
- Herbert Bayer: 6 pages
- Lou Dorfsman: 2 pages
- Tomi Ungerer: 5 pages
- Italy
- Bruno Munari: 12 pages
- Enzo Mari: 4 pages
- Eugenio Carivi: 2 pages
- Giovanni Pintori: 2 pages
- Ag Fronzoni: 2 pages
- Heinzwaibl: 2 pages
- Ricardo Manzi: 2 pages
- Tantibambini Series: 10 pages
- U.K.
- Bob Gill: 8 pages
- Alan Fletcher: 8 pages
- Marcello Minale: 4 pages
- Sweden
- Olle Eksell: 8 pages
- Stig Lindberg: 6 pages
- France
- Andre Francois: 4 pages
- Jean Michel Folon: 6 pages
- Switzerland
- Karl Gerstner: 6 pages
- Celestino Piatti: 4 pages
- Hans Hartmann: 4 pages
- Quadra Prints: 6 pages. Includes work by Bruno Munari, Willem Sandberg, Wim Crouwell, Timothy Epps, Buckminster Fuller, Dieter Roth and others.
- Imago: 4 pages
- About U. S. : 6 pages. Includes spreads from the ABOUT U. S. - EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY BY AMERICAN DESIGNERS published by the Composing Room in 1960, with work by Robert Brownjohn, Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar, Lester Beall, and Gene Federico.
- IBM and Olivetti: 4 pages. Includes spreads from the Mathematica Exhibition Booklet designed by George Tscherney.
- Interviews
- Ivan Chermayeff
- Bob Gill
- Shigeo Fukuda
- Aiko Yamada
- Yoshihisa Ushihara