The third portfolio piece I chose to showcase by Jan V. White is his publication, “Designing for magazines”. Published by R. R. Bowker Company in 1982, “Designing for magazines” presents the concept of editing-by-design and how it can be effective and successful in publications. White presents design solutions and approaches for front covers, back covers,…
Another aspect of design that was important to Jan V. White was color and the use of color in print. Back in the seventies and eighties when bright colors were all the rage, White published another book in 1996 on the impact of color, which he called, “Color For Impact”. Color For Impact explains color…
Of his two hundred publications, Jan V. White published a couple very important books for designers and non-designers, which became key to understanding print design and publication. One of his most popular books, published in New York in 1988 by Watson-Guptill Publications, was “Graphic Design For The Electronic Age”. This piece was important for White…
For this assignment, I to choose to review the book ” I Seem to be a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller. My first impression of this book was neither overly enthusiastic or possessing feelings of detestation. My first impression of the outward appearance of this book was indifference. To me, this book seemed as though…
Les mots en liberté futuristes I chose Les mots en liberté futuristes as my piece. My first visual impression of Les mots en liberté futuristes is that it is very visually busy. There is no color present, except for the red on the cover page. There are many lines, shapes, and words going in all…
I chose to examine the book, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, which was published by The World Publishing Company in New York. It is a facsimile, or exact copy, of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with all 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. I went over to this book initially because the cover of it was…
When I first came to the special collections exhibit, I spent some time walking around, eyeing what was available, waiting for a book to speak to me. That book, it turned out, happened to be one that not-so-subtlety suggested I “Damn Everything but the Circus”. I think to begin with, the title peaked my interest…
Jakuchu Gajo, a series of prints by Ito Jakuchu, was bound in a foldable casing protecting two volumes of screen prints depicting nature scenes like flowers, leaves, and small animals and insects. My initial impressions of it were that it has a rustic and fragile quality, with some yellowing on its pages, but the prints…
Les mots en liberté futuristes, F.T. Marinetti Experiencing old books in person is quite a transformative experience. I didn’t realize how much of an impact actually handling Les mots en liberté futuristes would have on my interpretation of it but it was truly crucial to my understanding of the book and…
When I began this project I wasn’t exactly looking for a specific book to “judge.” As I wasn’t overly familiar with any of the books on the list, I really just wanted to pick one up and start exploring. I walked over the the reserved section at the Design Library, grabbed an off-white spine from…
In Judging a Book By Its Cover, I reviewed “Contemporary Furniture and Textiles” by Knoll Associates. I found this to be an interesting choice because as a design student interested in interiors, I am familiar with Knoll in the contemporary sense. Upon checking it out from special collections, my first inclination was that it was…
My initial visual impressions of the book were that the drawings looked very basic and unsophisticated. The figures of the people holding out their hands and attempting to touch appeared to be very basic sketches, like those drawn by kids. However, the second aspect that caught my eye was the black bird. The…
The visual impression of the book, Light Years, is immediately striking and has a very appealing visual design. When I saw this book on the shelf, my eye was immediately attracted to it, I have truly never seen another book quite like it. The design on the binding and the patterns on the outer edges…
The book I chose was The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. I chose it because it was really very visually interesting, what with being really thick, looking old, and the gold leaf or whatever substance the gold on the cover is caught my attention immediately in a way that the regular beige would not have.…
Boom! What can I say, Boom: Biography of Books by Irma Boom caught me completely by surprise. I went into the design library and their lay a plethora of books all different sizes, some in boxes and some not. I rifled through, and came to one that looked like the size of “To Kill a…