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Design Category
Book design, 2004
Design firm
Integral Lars Muller (Wettingen, Switzerland)
Collection
(2005) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2004

Description

The challenge was to make a book that covered the complete spectrum of the state of human rights around the world today-a monumental and extremely serious undertaking. The book needed to be accessible to a general audience, suitable for scholars, and also relevant to people who work in the field at all levels-whether at an NGO or the United Nations. It was particularly challenging to make a book that could give a true picture of world human rights through found photographs, in addition to more traditional texts, graphics and charts. The book has been embraced by members of the United Nations, academic programs and even celebrities like Yoko Ono. There has never been a book like it—a visual primer—in the field of human rights.

Credits
Creative directors: Lars Muller, Walter Kalin, Judith Wyttenbach
Art director: Lars Muller
Designers: Claudia Klein, Lars Muller
Photographer: Various
Production director: Lars Muller
Picture editors: Lars Muller, Claudia Klein
Authors: Slavenka Drakulic, Carlos Fuentes, Walter Kalin, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Alexander Kluge, Sima Samar, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka, Magrit Sprecher, Judith Wyttenbach
Editors: Walter Kalin, Lars Muller, Judith Wyttenbach
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Trim size: 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches
Pages: 720
Typeface: Helvetica
Printer/binder: EBS Bortolazzi STEI
Paper: Handmade from recycled cotton fiber, produced by Salim’s Paper, Jaipur, Radjastan.