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The Form of the Book Book - Occasional Papers 2009/

Designed by Sarah de Bondt & Fraser Muggeridge

A collection of essays on book design by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Jenni Eneqvist, Roland Früh, Corina Neuenschwander, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis, Chrissie Charlton & Armand Mevis

The following papers were first presented at The Form of the Book conference on 30 January 2009, at St Bride Library in London. The title is an homage to Jan Tschichold’s collected essays on book design, written between 1941 and 1975 and published under the title ‘The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design’ (Lund Humphries, 1991). Tschichold’s ‘The Form of the Book’ provides a set of recommendations to produce books that are well-designed and historically grounded…

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