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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
studio blue (Chicago, Illinois)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996
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Awestruck by the Majesty of the Heaven is a small catalogue of the Adler Planetarium’s collection of celestial charts. The book’s spherical grid reflects the “flatland” of these Renaissance documents, and its typography combines contemporary and Renaissance forms of recording text.