Posted on Oct 6, 2011
Publication date: June 2011.
Softcover, 144 pages, 8.5" × 11".
Display type: Burgues Script and Whitney.
Body type: Akagi.
Recovering Beauty; produced for the Blanton Museum of Art by Marquand Books, designed by Zach Hooker. Available from D.A.P. and Powell's. This book is a wonderful introduction to the exciting work being made in Argentina in the 1990s, much of which is not well-known here in the US. The work has an exuberance that allowed for a pretty aggressive design approach, with lots of color and prominent use of Alejandro Paul's elaborate Burgues Script. (A typeface by an Argentinian, based on the work of an American calligrapher.)
