California Video: Artists and Histories
Getty Publications, Los Angeles, California, 2008
Description
The design challenge was to produce a system that represents the diversity of voices—artist, curator, interviewer, archivist—while also representing the book’s diverse and disorderly visual imagery. The typographic material attempts to clearly maintain informational hierarchy and strictly adheres to the grid while the images move freely on the page to give the book a more open and fluid feel.
Juror Notes
The design challenge was to produce a system that represents the diversity of voices—artist, curator, interviewer, archivist—while also representing the book’s diverse and disorderly visual imagery. The typographic material attempts to clearly maintain informational hierarchy and strictly adheres to the grid while the images move freely on the page to give the book a more open and fluid feel.
Jurors’ Comments:
One of the best examples of a video exhibition catalogue. Video is difficult to present in book form, but the designer has made the material accessible.
Wonderful use of paper changes.
Putting contributors on the spin is a clever addition.
Credits
- Design firm
- Getty Publications
- Designer
- Stuart Smith
- Production coordinator
- Elizabeth Kahn
- Authors
- Meg Cranston, Rita Gonzalez, Kathy Rae Huffman, Glenn Phillips (editor), Robert R. Riley, Steve Seid and Bruce Yonemoto
- Editor
- Tobi Kaplan
- Publisher
- Getty Publications
- Trim size
- 9.5 x 11.75
- Pages
- 328
- Quantity printed
- 5,500
- Compositor
- Stuart Smith
- Typefaces
- Freight Sans, Freight Text
- Printer
- Asia Pacific Offset Inc.
- Papers
- IKPP woodfree, 140 gsm
- Binder
- Asia Pacific Offset Inc.