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Design Category
Book design, 2001
Design firm
studio blue (Chicago, Illinois)
Collection
(2002) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001
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The seminal photography program at Chicago’s Institute of Design was begun by Moholy-Nagy in the 1930s and developed by photographic greats Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind into the 1970s.
We tried to capture the school’s philosophy of documentation and experimentation in this catalogue—pairing large documentary images of the school with graphic, straightforward typography, while using our own photographs of light and type for titles and chapter openers. Titles wrap the book’s spine and pages, and book boards are thin and flexible, referencing the school’s time- and motion-based work.