Designing Books.

Early in his career, Jan Tschichold was a proponent of the extremely radical typographic style – using sans serif typefaces, always in asymmetric arrangements – most often associated with the Bauhaus, though Tschichold was never a member of that school. Sometime in the 1930s, Tschichold made a radical about-face, becoming a resolutely traditional designer working almost exclusively in the classical style. This volume contains a valuable essay on planning a book, together with 58 color plates displaying Tschichold’s work from 1939 to 1949 in his classical style, without an asymmetric layout in sight!