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Designers & Books Launches a Kickstarter to Reprint "Visual Design in Action"

Pioneer of information design Ladislav Sutnar's iconic 1961 book is slated for a comeback

April 28, 2015

June 4, 2015: Successfully funded! Watch for updates. We’ve launched a Kickstarter to help bring back into print Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action. If we’re successful, this 1961 graphic design classic will be reissued in a facsimile edition, with the first copies going to our Kickstarter backers this October. To support this project, visit our page on Kickstarter, where it's a Kickstarter Staff Pick.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1204158310/ladislav-sutnar-visual-design-in-action-facsimile

The Kickstarter runs through June 3, but Early Backer discounts are limited. Back this project and receive a copy of the facsimile edition, edited by Steven Heller and Reto Caduff (to be published by Lars Müller Publishers); your name featured on a special acknowledgments page; a full-size silk-screened reproduction of the poster for the exhibition on which this book was based; vintage Ladislav Sutnar catalogues, and more.

For a preview of the the book and to learn more about Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action:

This Kickstarter is the first in a series of projects by Designers & Booksto bring back into the public eye important out-of-print design books and to introduce them to new audiences.

We look forward to seeing you on our Kickstarter page!

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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 by Andrew Blauvelt

Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986

by Andrew Blauvelt
Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
Published: June 1, 2018

Explores the printed matter—posters, flyers, zines, and album covers—produced by and for the punk and post-punk music scenes in the United States and UK. Printed as a special, oversized, 52-page color newspaper, the catalogue has been published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Andrew Blauvelt, on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum through October 7, 2018.

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