Title: Designing books: Practice and theory
Authors: Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross
Publisher: Hyphen Press, London
Published: 1996, reprinted in 2004
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Available: At Powell’s, $30, in paperback
Designing books: practice and theory is as much a reference manual as it is a design text book or a collection of essays.
The book’s author, Jost Hochuli, is a Swiss typographer, book designer, writer, and editor. Reading Designing books feels like being told “the way things were and always should be” by a wise uncle who speaks in stilted blurbs. Perhaps this is a result of this book’s status as “in translation” sometimes replacing Hochuli’s “style and tone.” But these are really interesting, compelling stilted blurbs.
