Massin

ISBN-13: 9780714848112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

Laetitia Wolff

Opis

- Robert Massin (b.1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer and is one of the key figures in the development of post-war graphic design
- The first monograph published in English on Massin's career, which includes twenty years as art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard
- Charts Massin's wide-ranging work with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning The Bold Prima Donna (1964) and Letter and Image (1970)
- Research was carried out in close collaboration with Massin, and benefited from unrivalled access to the Massin collection in Chartre; and the designer's personal archives
- Includes preparatory sketches, letters and finished works, photographed especially for this book

O autorze

Laetitia Wolff is a writer, curator, and design consultant, who has had unrivalled access to the Massin collection as well as the designer's personal archives. Currently editorial director at Surface magazine, she is the author of the book series Design Focus (Gingko Press), and has also been involved with several graphic design exhibitions, including the first retrospective of the work of Massin at the Cooper Union Gallery, in New York (2002).