Massin

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category: print > books

author: Laetitia Wolff

publisher: Phaidon

genre: Design

format: hardcover

dimensions: 250 x 290 mm, 9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in

pages: 208

isbn: 9780714848112

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Robert Massin (b.1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer and is one of the key figures in the development of post-war graphic design

The first monograph published in English on Massin’s career, which includes twenty years as art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard

Charts Massin’s wide-ranging work with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning The Bald Prima Donna (1964) and Letter and Image (1970)

Research was carried out in close collaboration with Massin, and benefited from unrivalled access to the Massin collection in Chartres and the designer’s personal archives

Includes preparatory sketches, letters and finished works, photographed especially for this book