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Design Category
Book design, 1970
Design director
Muriel Cooper
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The book examines the use of computers to aid the designer and planner. It looks several machine generations ahead to a future in which genuine man-machine dialogue is achieved. The author, particularly sensitive visually, with a background of design and spatial organization, developed the modular system in close coordination with the Design Director. The book was cheaply produced.

Special Features: Silver foil stamping on front in same module as interior text; blind stamping on spine.

Credits
Designer: Nicholas Negroponte
Size: 7.25 x 7.25 inches
Pages: 168
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $5.95
Typeface: Linoflim Quick Helvetica, 10/12 with display in Linofilm Quick Helvetica
Typesetter: The Lane Press, Inc.
Printer: The Lane Press, Inc.
Printing method: offset
Papers: Mead Publishers’ Matte Offset, 70 lb., White
Binder: Robert Burlen & Son, Inc.
Binding materials: bound in 17 pt. Holliston Lexotone Vellum White, paper covered
Binding method: adhesive bound, square-backed
Publisher: The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)