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Book Review: Jan Tschichold’s The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design

Book Review: Jan Tschichold’s The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Designby Jan TschicholdIt is part of the Classic Typography series and is a non-fiction, business in a paperback edition that was published by Hartley & Marks on January 1, 1991 and has 191 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Non-fictional collection of essays that discuss typography and book layout. My Take Oh my god, what a pretentious twit! Albeit one with a lovely gift for words, so flowery in his discourse on the beauty of book layouts. I couldn’t decide if I was reading a critique on book construction or wine. Harmony is determined by relationships or proportions. Proportions are hidden everywhere: in the capaciousness of the margins, in the reciprocal relationships to each other of all four margins on the page of a book, in the relationship between leading of the type area and dimensions of the margins, the placement of the page number relative to the…and on and on. Tschichold’s use of the word “morality” as part of the title […]

Posted June 20, 2012 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments