THE PENTAGRAM PAPERS: A Collection Of 36 Papers Containing Curious, Entertaining, Stimulating, Provocative, And Occasionally Controversial Points Of View That Have Come To The Attention Of, Or In Some Cases Are Actually Originated By, The Partners Of Pentagram Design

Hirasuna, Delphina., Kit Hinrichs

ISBN 10: 0811855635 / ISBN 13: 9780811855631

Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2006

About this Item

1st edition, 2006. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. 4to., 215 pp., bound in publishers black cloth with black dust jacket, $60.00. Minor signs of shelf wear, publishers sticker on front of dust jacket. Text is unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 33375

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE PENTAGRAM PAPERS: A Collection Of 36 Papers Containing Curious, Entertaining, Stimulating, Provocative, And Occasionally Controversial Points Of View That Have Come To The Attention Of, Or In Some Cases Are Actually Originated By, The Partners Of Pentagram Design
• Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811855635
• ISBN 13: 9780811855631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

Celebrated global design firm Pentagram has produced a series of signature annual documents, known as Pentagram Papers, exclusively for clients and colleagues since 1975. On the occasion of the firm's 35-year anniversary, these quirky and influential Papers are collected here together for the first time. Each Paper explores a unique and curious topic of interest to the Pentagram designersMao buttons, the Savoy ballroom, rural Australian mailboxes, and the pop architecture of Wildwood, New Jersey, have all been featured subjects. Included here are not only in-depth reproductions and detailed discussion of the Papers' origins, but also an exclusive new Paper created especially for the book and set into a tray inside its back cover.

About the Authors

Delphine Hirasuna is the principal of Hirasuna Editorial and the editor of the acclaimed design journal @ Issue. Author of several books, she has won numerous design awards. She lives in San Francisco.

Delphine Hirasuna is the principal of Hirasuna Editorial and the editor of the acclaimed design journal @ Issue. Author of several books, she has won numerous design awards. She lives in San Francisco.