The Nature of Recreation
Joel Katz, Gee! Group for Environmental Education, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973
Description
This is a handbook in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted, using examples from his work. There are three content levels, coded by type and color: 1. Basic text exploring the nature of recreation, providing projects and ideas, and accompanied by b/w photographs 2. Historical text accompanied by period photographs printed in brown 3. “appendix” notes along margins with additional notes of interest.
Collections:
Fifty Books of the Year (1974)
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Designers
- Joel Katz, Gee! Group for Environmental Education, Inc.
- Picture editor
- Howard Brunner
- Authors
- Richard Saul Wurman, Joel Katz, Alan Levy
- Size
- 12 x 9.5 inches
- Pages
- 76 pages plus 6 page die-cut insert
- Quantity printed
- edition of 20,000
- Price
- $4.95
- Typeface
- Linotype Helvetica Light and Baskerville Italic, various sizes and leadings, with display in Helvetica
- Typesetter
- Leon Segal Typesetting
- Printer
- The Falcon Press
- Printing method
- sheet-fed offset
- Jacket printer
- The Falcon Press
- Papers
- Mystery Opaque Smooth, 80 lb., White, Index offset on International Springhill, 90 lb.
- Paper supplies
- Wilcox-Walter-Furlong Paper Company
- Binder
- Bless Bindery Company
- Binding materials
- softbound in pre-printed Black & White Offset Enamel (mead)
- Endpaper designer
- Carnival Kraft Olive (Champion)
- Publishers
- The MIT Press, The American Federation of Arts
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