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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Carin Goldberg Design (Stanfordville, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997

Description

This book is the biography of a very brilliant, yet very eccentric mathematician whose entire existence revolves around numbers. The title is no exaggeration. The connect-the-dots vehicle is meant to imply the literal notion that, in this case, numbers make the man.

Credits
Art directors: Victor Weaver, Carin Goldberg
Graphic designer: Carin Goldberg
Illustrator: Neil Flewellen
Author: Paul Hoffman
Typefaces: Helvetica, Clarendon
Publisher/client: Hyperion