Title & Author:

The Pentagram papers / created by the Pentagram Partners ; edited by Delphine Hirasuna, designed by Kit Hinrichs.

Publication:

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2006.

Description:

215 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
"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."
Avery Library copy: "Marks of Africa" (32 p.), Pentagram Papers 36, rendered by Fernando Medina, issued in pocket, has been removed and is housed in Avery Rare.
NNC
The Pentagram partnership -- The beginning -- Cultural phenomena -- Personal passions -- Collections -- Retrospection.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

0811855635 (hbk.)
9780811855631 (hbk.)

Subject:

Pentagram Design.
Commercial art.
Design.
Art publicitaire.
commercial art.

Added entries:

Hirasuna, Delphine, 1946-
Pentagram Design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254511
Call No.: BIB 184549
Status: Available