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Design Category
Book design, 2003
Design firm
University of California Press (Berkeley, California)
Collection
(2004) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2003
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The challenge was to present the distillation of years of scholarly research on Emma Goldman, a noted anarchist and crusader for women’s rights. The design had to accommodate texts originating from many different sources (newspaper articles, personal correspondence, surveillance reports) without seeming too cluttered and overwhelming. It also had to be flexible enough to work over several volumes and accommodate a large array of elements. Each document is cataloged in label style with document name and date. Since many of the newspaper sources of the time used many levels of subheads in titles, the document titles and subtitles were designed to echo those levels, but in a simplified and modern way. And those same styles worked beautifully for all the other documents as well.
“Carefully considered nonfiction for a book with complex typographical needs—yet its occasional clumsiness prevented it from winning over the entire jury.” Cheryl Towler Weese
“Nice object. All of the type is well considered and finer than you normally get in nonfiction. The type is so classical that it could be linotype, yet adds enough elements to keep it modern.”