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Design Category
Book design, 1973
Art director
Tom Suzuki
Collection
(1974) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

This college text relates the subject with graphic analogy, historical examples, and visual materials. Four different second colors were used for variety with controlled imposition. (Budget limited to 2 color with minimum commissioned art).

Credits
Designer: Nat Antler
Photo research: Nancy Sjoberg
Author: Editors of CRM Books
Size: 8.5 x 10 inches
Pages: 648
Quantity printed: edition of 32,500
Price: $12.95
Typeface: CRT Linotron Palatino, 10/11.5, with display in Neo Palatino (film)
Typesetters: Black Dot, Inc., The Headliners of New York, Inc.
Printer/binder: W.A. Krueger Company
Printing method: web offset
Papers: Dependoweb (Oxford), 50 lb., White, Hobart-McIntosh Paper Company
Binding materials: bound in Kivar 5 (Scott) Cinnamon, Antique Finish on 88 pt. Chestnut board , silkscreened in two colors
Binding method: Adhesive bound, round back
Endpapers: Special Alpaco Brown
Endpaper supplies: Hobart-McIntosh
Publisher: CRM Book (Del Mar, California)