Urban Life and Form, 1965

September 3, 2010 | Filed Under Architecture, Non-Fiction | No Comments

urbanism 60s, sixties book cover graphics, flat, isometric, 3-color graphics, 1965, werner z hirsch, holt rinehart winston

detail, flat graphics, sixties, urbanism, 3-color graphics, holt rinehart and winston inc.

The Crime of Galileo, 1965

September 1, 2010 | Filed Under Husband/Wife, Non-Fiction | No Comments

Simple and appropriate. Love it.

By Ed and Jane Bedno. Another husband and wife design duo!

60s design, sixties book cover design, 1065, abstract graphics, minimal jacket design

Amerika

August 30, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | No Comments

Umschlagentwurf von Hans Schaumberger. (I believe that means Hans Schaumberger did the cover design.)

sixties graphic design, 60s book cover design, germany, piper, hans Schaumberger

german graphic design 60s, 1960s book design

Introduction to Elementary Mathematical Logic, 1970

August 24, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | No Comments

One of my favorite recent finds. (And more dots!)

mit press, 70s math book, seventies graphic design, abstract book cover design, 1970

The Founding of New Societies, 1969

August 19, 2010 | Filed Under Husband/Wife, Non-Fiction | No Comments

…dots!

Cover design by Donald + Ann Crews.

louis hartz, founding of new socitieties, late 60s graphic design, sixties book cover design, 1969 paperback, anthropology, sociology, abstract graphics, dots

Design for the Real World, 1973

August 17, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | 3 Comments

Here’s a good lesson: if they ask you to put a huge blurb on the cover, just make that the design.

type-driven book cover, 70s book design, seventies paperback, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, victor papanek
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, victor papanek, 1973

Handbook of Micromethods for the Biological Sciences, 1974

August 11, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | No Comments

Love this one. Maybe mostly cuz it came out of the dollar bin outside the store, but still. So geometric. So abstract. So 1974.

70s graphic design, abstract seventies, 1974, keleti, lederer, biological sciences handbook, helvetica light

The Uses of Disorder, 1971

August 6, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | No Comments

Dots.

seventies book cover design, sennett, psychology, purple, dots, halftone illustraition, 70s graphic design

Equality, 1971

August 3, 2010 | Filed Under Non-Fiction | No Comments

Love the simplicity of this—the idea and the execution.

Jacket design by Paul May.

equality, minimal design, black and white, 70s book jacket, seventies graphic design

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