Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971
studio blue, Chicago, Illinois, 2001
Description
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.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2001
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- studio blue
- Creative directors
- Kathy Fredrickson, Cheryl Towler Weese, Gail Wiener
- Designers
- Jake Gardner, Inga Naden, Kayo Takasugi, Sue Walsh, Cheryl Towler Weese, Gail Wiener
- Typographic photography
- Matt Simpson, Gail Wiener
- Production coordinator
- Sarah Guernsey
- Trim size
- 8 1/2 x 12 inches
- Pages
- 272
- Typefaces
- Gothic 13, HTF Champion, News Gothic
- Printer
- Amilcare Pizzi
- Paper
- Larius
- Binding method
- Flexi-bound, paper over thin board
- Authors
- Elizabeth Siegel, David Travis
- Publishers
- The Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago Press
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