26/01/12 – Select illustrations from Le Corbusier’s The modulor: a harmonious measure to the human scale universally applicable to architecture and mechanics published by Faber and Faber (1954). Book design and typography based on the proportions of the modulor.

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19/09/11 – Selections from Imre Reiner’s Grafika: modern design for advertising and printing published in New York in 1947. English edition limited to 1000 copies.

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15/08/11 – Excerpts from Swiss artist and designer Karl Gerstner’s Kompendium für Alphabeten published in 1972 by Verlag Niggli AG.

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Related post: Karl Gerstner: The forms of colour (1986)

27/05/11 – Second installment of book covers, dust jackets, endpapers and title pages from Czechoslovakia circa 1960.

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20/05/11 – A selection of book covers, dust jackets, endpapers and title pages from Czechoslovakia circa 1960.

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Czechoslovak books collection on Flickr