Showing posts with label John Alcorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Alcorn. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2022

Typography: Monocle

Volume 4, Number 1, Summer Fall 1960
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art Editors: Lou Klein, Phil Gips





















Volume 5, Number 2, Summer-Fall 1963
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by R.O. Blechman, Bill Charmatz, Marshall 
Arisman, Ed Sorel, Paul Davis, Louis Klein, Chas. 
B. Slackman, Lou Myers, Robert Grossman, Dave 
Levine, Dick Danne, Lionel Kalish, Phil Gips
































Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 1963–1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Bob Gill, Chas. B. Slackman, Philip Gips, 
Louis P. Klein, David Levine, Elton Robinson, 
Milton Glaser, Enos, Seymour Chwast, Tomi 
Ungerer, Lou Myers, Paul Davis




































Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Sam Antupit, Paul Davis, Lou Myers, Tomi 
Ungerer, Chas. B. Slackman, Robert Grossman, R. O. 
Blechman, Jim McMullan, David November, 
Seymour Chwast, John Alcorn


































Volume 6, Number 1, Summer 1964
Display type by the Morgan Press
Art by Dick Danne, Philip Gips, Ed Sorel, Randall 
Enos, Luis Camnitzer, Reynold Ruffins, Sims Taback, 
Paul Davis, Robert Grossman, Isadore Seltzer, Tomi 
Ungerer, Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser






































Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 1964
Art by Push Pin Studios


































Further Reading
Design Observer: The Other Monocle
Click “Play Slideshow”


(Next post on Monday: Comic Book Trademarks, Part 8)

Monday, April 22, 2013

Typography: John Alcorn’s Writing!


Dust jacket and selected pages from
Writing!
Murray McCain
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Simon and Schuster, 1964


(John Alcorn’s Books!; next post on Monday)


Monday, December 3, 2012

Typography: John Alcorn’s Books!


Dust jacket and selected pages from
Books!
Murray McCain
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Simon and Schuster, 1962


(John Alcorn’s Writing!; next post on Monday: New Testament)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Creator: Herb Lubalin, Part 4


Are you sure you love me?
Lois Wyse
Designed by Herb Lubalin
World Publishing, 1969

Dust jacket detail, endpaper and title page


Love Poems for the Very Married
Lois Wyse
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Michael Aron
Garret Press, c1979

Dust jacket detail, endpaper and title page


Love Poems for the Very Married
Lois Wyse
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Fran Elfinbein
World Publishing, 1969 (ninth printing)

Dust jacket detail and title page


My Mother & Me
Lois Wyse
Illustrated by Eugene Karlin
Designed by Herb Lubalin
Doubleday, 1972

Dust jacket detail, title page, and illustrated text spread


How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities
Judith Viorst
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Designed by Herb Lubalin
Simon and Schuster, 1976

Dust jacket detail, endpaper, title page, part title,
illustrated text spread, and part titles


It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty
and Other Tragedies of Married Life
Judith Viorst
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Designed by Herb Lubalin
Signet Books, 1970
Mass market paperback cover


Love & Guilt & The Meaning of Life, Etc.
Judith Viorst
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Designed by Herb Lubalin
Simon and Schuster, 1979

Dust jacket detail, endpaper, title page, part title,
illustrated text spread and part titles


People & Other Aggravations
Judith Viorst
Illustrated by John Alcorn
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Annegret Beier
World Publishing, 1971

Dust jacket detail, half title, title page and illustrated text spread

Signet Books, 1972
Mass market paperback cover


(Tomorrow: Part 5 of 9)