COLOR CHART: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Matsumoto Incorporated, New York, New York, 2008
Description
This publication was a challenge because it represents the work of 40 artists from the early 20th century through today. The artwork varied greatly, so there had to be some element in the design to tie all the work together. The curator focused on art that has been influenced by industrial paint colors, so we used the colors from the offset printing process to reiterate the theme. Each section title (the artist’s name, birthplace and dates) was printed in magenta. Below that there is a quotation by the artist, which is printed in cyan. The divider pages were also process colors: solid pages of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The bookbinding cloth is cyan and the endpapers are process yellow.
Juror Notes
A well-balanced look.
A cover where the design plays a fantastic role in featuring the colorful art.
Credits
- Design firm
- Matsumoto Incorporated
- Art director
- Takaaki Matsumoto
- Creative director
- Takaaki Matsumoto
- Designers
- Takaaki Matsumoto, Hisami Aoki
- Jacket designer
- Takaaki Matsumoto
- Photographer
- Various
- Production director
- Marc Sapir
- Author
- Ann Temkin
- Editors
- Anne Doran, Stephen Robert Frankel, Emily Hall, Nell McClister
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Trim size
- 9 x 12
- Pages
- 248
- Typefaces
- Helvetica Neue, Jansen
- Printer
- CS Graphics Pte Ltd.
- Papers
- Gold East, 157 gsm, matte