Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter - Softcover

Classic book jackets: the design legacy of George Salter / Thomas S. Hansen; foreword by Milton Glaser

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 200 pages: colour illustrations; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and indexes. Contents; George Salter's Berlin years -- From Berlin to New York: the 1930s and 1940s -- Designs of the 1950s and 1960s -- Appendix A. George Salter's German designs for the German book market, 1922-1934 -- Appendix B. George Salter's designs for the American book market, 1934-1967. Summary; It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn and lettered covers served as elegant windows onto the works of such revered authors as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Jack London, and Thomas Mann. Salter had the rare ability to reduce the illustrated dust jacket -- a new part of the book package -- to its essential elements. He could visually evoke -- with typography, calligraphy, and pictorial imagery -- the contents of any given book. Salter's life and work bridged two continents and cultures, and spanned the severest political turmoil of the 20th century. Through a tumultuous life, nothing halted his tireless and brilliant design work. Classic Book Jackets tells Salter's story and describes the innovative design thinking he brought to his design students (including his designation of seven different jacket types that are still valid today). It includes more than 200 reproductions of his finest works, and a complete catalog of his jackets, designs, layouts, and lettering jobs for the book trade. Subjects; Salter, George 1897-1967. Book jackets - United States - Design. Book jackets - Germany - Design. Book jackets - United States - History - 20th century. Book jackets - Germany - History - 20th century. Graphic design; Individual designers. DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General. 1 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 236962

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