Treasures from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Treasures from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Larsen Design & Interactive, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1998

Description

Treasures from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was commissioned to salute the Institute’s 115-year history and celebrate its collection. Larsen added a qualifier: we would not permit the book design to interfere with the art. Treasures succeeds. Each page isolates a masterpiece. Special care was taken to reproduce each work in its original colors. Working with existing transparencies, many of them over thirty years old, was a challenge. But the printer brought proofs to the Institute, and color was checked alongside the original art. It was this attention, this detail, along with the collection’s vibrant pieces, that gives the book its richness.

Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 1998
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Design firm
Larsen Design & Interactive
Creative director
Richelle Huff
Designers
Todd Nesser, Elizabeth Kaney
Photographers
Gary Mortensen, Robert Fogt, Alec Soth
Typeface
Centaur
Printer
Diversified Graphics
Binding
Midwest Editions
Paper
Sappi Warren Lustro Dull
Author
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Publisher
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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