Beauty and the book - 60 years of the most beautiful Swiss books - Niggli 2004

This book accompanied the exhibition of the same name looking at 60 years of the national award for book design originally initiated by Jan Tschichold in 1944.
The exhibition, presenting a selection of winning books from the competition’s past sixty years, was on show until 20 November 2004 at Schweizerische Landesbibliothek in Bern, and features a number of book designs by Lineto founding member Cornel Windlin. The publication, designed by Julia Born, Amsterdam, is showing the Akkurat font family by Laurenz Brunner, and for the first time, beta versions of the italic and monospace versions of Akkurat.

152p - EN/FR/GER - 24.1x17.1 cm - paperback - great condition