A show of my father's book designs opens at Columbia University on Monday, at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. During the last few years of his life Dad spent weekends going through his library, annotating the thousands of books he had designed (his career started in 1926 and he was still working on the day he died in 1980). He put down everything he could remember about the design decisions, the author's reactions... anything that came to mind.
My Father the Designer
My Father the Designer
My Father the Designer
A show of my father's book designs opens at Columbia University on Monday, at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. During the last few years of his life Dad spent weekends going through his library, annotating the thousands of books he had designed (his career started in 1926 and he was still working on the day he died in 1980). He put down everything he could remember about the design decisions, the author's reactions... anything that came to mind.