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Design Category
Book design, 1976
Art director
Muriel Cooper
Collection
(1977) The Book Show: Not Exactly Books

Description

The need to translate informal and interactive events into print is always present—and classic book typography doesn’t fill the need.

Credits
Designers: Muriel Cooper, Sylvia Steiner
Production manager: Pat Mahon
Editors: Douglas Davis, Allison Simmons
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Pages: 289
Quantity printed: first printing of 3,000
Price: $14.95
Typefaces: Text in various sizes and faces IBM Composer and IBM Selectric; IBM Composer, IBM Selectric
Typesetters: Tech Data Associates, Barbara Altman
Printer: Murray Printing Company
Printing method: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: 133-line screen
Paper: Spring Forge Offset, 60 lb. blue-white, wov
Paper supplies: Pratt Paper Company
Binding materials: Kivar #6 Antique, white, printed by Arlington Lithograph by offset in black only, on 70 pt. binders board
Binding method: Smyth sewn, round back
Endpapers: printed by Arlington Lithograph in four colors on one side and black only on the other side, from color transparencies supplied by the author
Jacket: copy for cover generated on video tape by Douglas Davis and retrieved onto film by Bruce Childs
Publisher: The MIT Press