AIGA Design Archives: Alberto Giacometti

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Design Category

Book design, 1974

Art director

J. Malcolm Grear

Collection

(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This volume presents the comprehensive Alberto Giacometti retrospective organized by, and first shown at, the Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition, pictured here in full, consists of sculpture, drawings and paintings on loan from worldwide sources.

Credits

Designer: David R. Chapman/Malcolm Grear Designers
Production manager: David R. Chapman
Author: Reinhold Hohl
Editor: Carol Feurstein
Pages: 204
Price: $9.75
Typeface: Linotype Sabon, 10/14, with display in foundry Sabon
Typesetter: Dumar Typesetting, Inc.
Printer: The Meriden Gravure Company
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Mohawk Superfine Text High Finish, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Carter Rice Storrs & bement, Inc.
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
Binding materials: softbound in pre-preprinted Rhododendron Cover (Strathmore), 65 lb., Antique White
Binding method: Smyth sewn
Endpapers: Cortlea (Mohawk) Goldensand
Endpaper supplies: Carter Rice
Publisher: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York