Will Burtin: Visual Aspects of Science Prints this one has got design

this one has got design history

Chermayeff calls attention to the parts with a brief essay on postage stamps and a selection of fourteen collages which use stamps and mail to the best possible effect

We’re sure he’s told us why the Beardsley’s poster is/was considered his first

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Will Burtin: Visual Aspects of Science Prints this one has got designWhile its always nice to see what can be done with few resources, it can be pleasant, too, to see what can be done when a book is funded by Kodak, IBM, Upjohn, and Union Carbide. Cha Ching! Still, Will Burtin did not go overboard. He still made a spectacular thing with graphic efficiency. Sure, photographs by Ezra Stoller made his work easy, but sixty years later when we can do anything they can do without nearly the effort or drama, this one shows