Blackletter: Type and National Identity
Peter Bain Design, Paul Shaw/Letter Design, Brooklyn, New York, 1999
Description
We had to recreate the experience of the accompanying exhibition in printed form. Each case in the exhibition was devoted to a single theme. Each theme either became a single page or a double-page spread. The look and feel (including the large lowercase “n’s”) of the installation, the entire text and over half the images were all transferred to the catalogue. The large “n” is a visual key to the different themes, highlighting stylistic differences and allowing the reader to navigate the catalogue by typographic form.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firms
- Peter Bain Design, Paul Shaw/Letter Design
- Designers/compositors
- Peter Bain, Paul Shaw
- Production coordinator
- Jerry Kelly
- Authors
- Peter Bain, Paul Shaw
- Trim size
- 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
- Pages
- 80
- Quantity
- 400 (plus 1,200 as Printing History 37/38)
- Typefaces
- Zentenar Fraktur, Stempel Schneidler with custom old-style figures, Monotype Grotesque
- Printer
- The Stinehour Press
- Paper
- Mohawk Superfine text and cover
- Binder
- Mueller Trade Bindery
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn
- Publisher/client
- American Printing History Association
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