AIGA Design Archives: Robes of Elegance: Japanese Kimonos of the 16th-20th Centuries

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Design Category

Book design, 1988

Art director

Lida Lowrey

Collection

(1989) The Book Show

Credits

Designers: Lida Lowrey, North Carolina Museum of Art Design Department
Photography: National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura; National Museum of Modern Art
Typographer: Marathon Typography Service, Inc.
Authors: Ishimura Hayao, Maruyama Nobuhiko
Printer: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Papers: L.K. Color-220 kg (Cover), Satin Kinfuji Dull #89 (Text), Extra Black, NT Rasha-A/2 Mini Book, 150 kg (Endsheets)
Publisher/client: North Carolina Museum of Art