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Design Category
Book design, 1975
Media director
Muriel Cooper
Collection
(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The theme of the book is a type of “throw-away architecture”; hence the design focused on a “throw-away book”.

Credits
Designers: Sylvia Steiner, Muriel Cooper
Production manager: Pat Mahon
Author: Herbert Muschamp
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 128
Quantity printed: first printing of 5,000
Price: $10.95
Typeface: text and display typed
Typesetter: MIT Press
Printer/binder: Clark-Franklin-Kingston Press
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Kraft paper, brown
Paper manufacturer: Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Binding materials: corrugated cardboard, brown, single-wall
Binding method: adhesive bound with brown tape back
Endpapers: Kraft paper, brown
Endpaper supplies: Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Publisher: MIT Press