Catalog Design Progress - Ladislav Sutnar and K. Lonberg-Holm

Catalog Design Progress: Advancing Standards in Visual Communication, facsimile edition / by Ladislav Sutnar and K. Lonberg-Holm, with a guide by Steven Heller / ISBN 9780262544023 / 138-page hardback in slip-case, 12.75 x 9.5 inches, from MIT Press *** A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today’s information design. Long before the internet and its vast stores of information in digital form, information in analog form needed to be organized so that it was legible and accessible. One designer who revolutionized the presentation of printed information was modernist pioneer Ladislav Sutnar (1897–1976). In 1950, Sutnar and architect K. Lonberg-Holm published Catalog Design Progress, a guide to modernizing the design of printed materials through typographic simplicity, compositional ingenuity, and navigational devices that signal the logical flow of information. This meticulously created facsimile of the original book illustrates and en