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Correspondence

Design Category
Book design, 1976
Designers
Richard Craven, Huston Blame, Gay M. Hertzman
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Not Exactly Books
Description

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art: a one-man show of some 550 letters sent by Ray Johnson, founder of the “New York Correspondence School” and foremost proponent of the “mail art” movement begun in the mid ‘50s. Catalog contains 350 facsimile reproductions of correspondence sent to 84 of the 104 lenders to the exhibition.

Special Features:  invitation:  designed by Elaine Sarao Beemer, on Hammermill Dura-Glo cover, 10 pt., printed by Theo. Davis & Sons

Credits
Editor: Gay M. Hertzman
Size: 8.5 x 11.5 inches
Pages: 200
Quantity printed: first printing of 1500
Price: $5.00
Typefaces: Text in Elite-Modern (Adler SE 1000 typewriter), Display in Bulletin Typewriter
Typesetters: Bernice Boylorn, Colad
Printer: Theo. Davis & Sons
Printing method: Text: offset lithography; Black/white illustrations: line shots and 150-line screen
Paper: Cougar Vellum Opaque, 60 lb. white
Paper manufacturer: Weyerhaeuser Company
Paper supplies: Snyder Paper Company
Binder: Colad
Binding materials: looseleaf pocket portfolio; designed by Gay M. Hertzman, on 18 pt. white C.1.S., laminated stock
Publisher: North Carolina Museum of Art