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Wind and Sail

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Designer/illustrator
John Muhlhausen
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

This sailing primer uses color and geometric shapes as educational elements.

Special features: The book is printed with transparent inks using screens of process colors.

Credits
Author: John Muhlhausen
Size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches
Pages: 64
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Linotype Helvetica, 9/11 reduced with display in foundry Helvetica medium
Typesetter: Dayton Typographic Service, Inc.
Printer: American Publishers Press
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Georgia-Pacific Snowdrift Opaque, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Berkshire Paper Company
Binder: The Engdahl Company
Binding materials: bound in Holliston Roxite B Blubak on .80 binder’s board
Binding method: Saddle-stitched and square-back
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Blue
Jacket: Kimberly Shorewood Gloss, 100 lb. White
Publisher: Quadrangle Books, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois)