Look at America: The Country You Know—and Don’t Know

Look at America: The Country You Know—and Don’t Know

Howard Jensen, New York, New York, 1946

Description

Juror Notes

Here is a book that many Americans will want to own because it contains hundreds of excellent photographs. It is an exceedingly ambitious undertaking involving difficult problems of layout, since the photographs are of various sizes and a running text is woven in among them. The designer has done well, but the full text pages have to long a line for easy reading. The binding might have been more in keeping with the color of the endpapers.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1947)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Designer
Howard Jensen
Illustrations
Photographs, offset plates
Map/chart designer
R.M. Chapin (seven maps)
Endpapers
R.M. Chapin
Editor
the editors of Look magazine
Trim size
8.75 x 12 inches
Pages
341
Price
$12.50
Typefaces
Garamond #3 [Linotype] 14 pt., 2 pt. leading, Handlettered; subtitles, Futura Bold, 18 pt. (title page), Futura Light (other display), Type Measure: 40 x 43 picas
Compositor
Riegert and Kennedy, Inc.
Plate maker
Graphic Arts Corp. of Ohio
Printers
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., The Kellogg and Bulkley Co. (color)
Printing methods
gravure, four-color process
Papers
Trafalgar Offset Gravure [white], 38 x 50¬–120/500 (black and white section), Trafalgar Offset\, 38 x 50–120/500 (color section)
Paper supplies
Crocker, Burbank Papers, Inc.
Binder
The Riverside Press
Binding materials
Interlaken Arco [#8395], stamped IPI 48–42–4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
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