Mapping Boston
MIT Press Design Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999
Description
It was a definite challenge to select cover art from an array of wonderful maps. The colors and feel of the cover reflect those found on old maps.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- MIT Press Design Department
- Art director/designer
- Yasuyo Iguchi
- Illustrators
- Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Captain John Smith
- Photographers
- Alex MacLean (cover and back flap), various (interior)
- Production coordinator
- Terry Lamoureux
- Editors
- Alex Krieger, David Cobb, Amy Turner
- Trim size
- 12 x 11 1/2 inches
- Quantity printed
- 20,000
- Compositor
- Yasuyo Iguchi
- Typefaces
- Garamond 3, Snell Roundhand
- Printer
- Meridian Printing
- Jacket printer
- Meridian Printing
- Paper
- 80# Pheno Star
- Binder
- Acme Book Binding
- Binding method
- Smythe sewn
- Binding materials
- Brillanta 4197
- Endpapers
- 65# Champion Carnival Cover
- Publisher/client
- The MIT Press
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