AIGA Design Archives: Metric Style Guide

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Design Category

Book design, 1975

Art director

Stuart Ash

Collection

(1976) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

Reference guide to Metric usage and conversation in Canada.

Credits

Designer: Gottschalk & Ash
Illustrator: Fredy Jaggi
Production manager: Roslyn Eskind
Author: Metric Task Force
Size: 8.25 x 11.5 inches
Pages: 104
Quantity printed: first printing of 280,000
Price: $3.00
Typeface: Text in 11/13 Monotype Univers 55, Display in Monophoto Univers 75
Typesetter: Carswell Printing Company
Printer: Carswell Printing Company
Printing method: sheet-fed by offset
Paper: offdet, 50 lb. Britewhite plus tint
Paper manufacturer: Rolland Paper Company
Paper supplies: Kruger Pulp and Paper
Binder: Reliable Bookbinders
Binding method: perfect bound
Publisher: Council of Ministers of Education, Canada