Publisher: Stedelijk Museum
Language: Dutch/English
ISBN-10: –
ISBN-13: –
Release Date: 1966
Product Dimensions: 27 x 27 cm
Price: sold
Book design: Wim Crouwel, Josje Pollman (Total Design)
27 loose pages in printed folder and inner sleeve. 4 loose color screenprints by Ellsworth Kelly, Bob Bonies, Georg Karl Pfahler and William Turnbull, 4 sheets with introduction text by Wim Beeren and Eddy de Wilde. 19 loose sheets with black & white illustrations introducing the 37 contributing artists. Screenprints in good condition.
The project of the book and its methods
Wim Crouwel: mode en module attempts something new: to document and discuss at length and with full historical and critical consciousness the work of a living graphic designer. Even dead and safely ‘in-the-past’ graphic designers have not yet received this treatment. By comparison with the present book, other monographs are slight affairs or, where less than slight, tend to be overblown and uncritical. On a first encounter with it, the Crouwel book certainly gives an air of thoroughness: a solid squat paperback, weighing 1250 gm, pages packed with text and many photographs, a seemingly exhaustive illustrated catalogue of work that extends to almost 200 pages, a lengthy ‘biographical overview’, full bibliography, two indexes. The design of the pages tends to agoraphobia, with very narrow margins and column widths, and notes to both pages on a spread placed in the far left column of the left page. But the book’s marvellously strong and flexible binding lets this work: pages can open out flat, providing a single field of information.
via hyphen press
本書はオランダのグラフィックデザイナーであるWim Crouwelをほぼ完璧に描き出し、多くのエッセイや解説つきの作品集です。
本のデザインはKarel Martensデザインによるものでコンテンツだけでなく本そのものが非常に高い価値を生み出していて、グラフィックデザインブックの中で世界的に人気があり高い価格での相場となっています。