John McConnell's list of
collaborators includes many household names - Boots, Faber & Faber,
Halfords, Clarks, John Lewis. The man behind the Biba logo (for which he
won the D&AD Silver in 1969), the logo of the National Grid and the
covers of a Penguin student textbook series from the early '70s has
exerted a quiet influence over British design since the sixties. His
awards alone speak to his prowess: the Prince Philip Designers' Prize
(2002) and the title of RDI (Royal Designer of Industry, 1987) among
them.
Part biography, part showcase for some of McConnell's most
celebrated designs, this book gathers McConnell's exclusive redesign for
Faber & Faber - a revolutionary new approach to book covers from
the early 1980s.
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
123
13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 123 farbige Abbildungen
13 Halftones, black and white; 123 Illustrations, color
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 145 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-78884-087-3 (9781788840873)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Robert McCrum
was the editorial director of Faber &
Faber from 1979-1989, where he worked alongside John McConnell. He has
written six novels, and co-authored
The Story of English
(1986). A regular contributor to the
Guardian
, he was also the literary editor of the
Observer
between 1996 and 2008.
