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Bread

Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director
Cipe Pineles Burtin
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

“Bread” was Parson’s Yearbook for 1974. It was designed by a group of eleven students to demonstrate a new approach to the yearbook concept. The book was produced on a strict budget. It was subsequently published by Harper & Row as a trade book under the title, “Parsons’ Bread Book.”

Credits
Designer: Senior Class of Editorial Design
Photographer: Senior Class of Editorial Design
Editors: Senior Class of Editorial Design, Parsons, Cipe Peneles Burtin, faculty
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 72
Quantity printed: edition of 1,500
Price: $2.95 (Harper & Row edition)
Typefaces: IBM Typositor Press Roman, 10/10, with display in Janson, Jacket: over 30 typefaces, Monotype and foundry
Typesetters: Nancy Conboy of T. Bexar, O’sullivan Typographers, Inc.
Printers: Aquarius Industries, Inc. , TMQ Lithographers, Inc.
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Paper: Kilmory #1776 (Weyerheauser), 70 lb., Natural
Paper supplies: Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead
Binder: G. & S. Industries, Inc.
Binding materials: softbound in pre-printed Trio Bristol C1S, 12 pt., White, supplied by Saxon Paper, New York.
Binding method: Perfect bound
Publisher: Parsons School of Design (New York, New York)