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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Ian Summers
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Paperbacks

Description

This book is patterned after a high school yearbook. Photographs of celebrities were lifted directly from their yearbooks, as is most of the text. In some cases the actual typography was simply lifted from the original book.

Credits
Designer: Don Smith
Calligrapher: Richard Nebiolo
Production manager: Barry Larit
Author: Ian Summers
Picture editor: Susan Hoffman
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 152
Price: $5.95
Printer: Deven Lithographers
Printing method: offset
Paper: Southern Offset, 60 lb.
Paper manufacturer: Union Camp
Binding materials: 12 pt. Krome Kote
Binding method: adhesive bound, perfect bound
Publisher: Ballantine Books