Books
• American Modernism -- Laurence King
  By R. Roger Remington
  280 x 215mm/192 pages
American Modernism is the third book we designed for Laurence King Publishing. As with the Monographics series, designing a book on design -- for an audience of designers -- is never easy, as a design retrospective for a modern audience requires recognition of the era in question, the 1920s, and acknowledgement of modern design practice.
  I decided on two key early 20th Century typefaces, a German Futura and an American New Caledonia, to reflect the book's content -- the arrival and impact of European Modernism into USA in the 1920s.
  A 6-column grid harnessed the variety of different design styles contained within; solid blocks of colour overlaid with black and white typography and key illustrations provided strong chapter openers.
  The book is co-published by Yale University Press in the USA.