7.05.2007

Vitra catalogue







Client: Vitra
Design & Art Direction: Cornel Windlin

For any of you who missed the hype, Cornel Windlin gave new meaning to what catalogues could be in 2005. I could give you a full description of how fantastically inventive it is and its significance to the genre, but Rick Poynor has already done that in issue 56 of eye magazine.

3 comments:

anti said...

Great post, hadn't seen this. Really like Windlin's work, has a kind of playful and light quality and his spreads never settle for being comfortable at the expense of interesting (I'm most familiar with Tate magazine)

What's the cover typeface? Has a lovely g. I'd have had some sleepless nights over where to have a line break in the final sentence though...

Kuchar Swara said...

I think he's great as well. He has a font foundry:
www.lineto.com

Not sure what the font is though, wouldn't surprise me if he made it specially for Vitra.

Its interesting, I think the way it ends is a typical Windlin thing, seamlesly ignorant of all the rules.

Anonymous said...

Simon, the cover typeface is ITC Grouch, a 70’s and 1 style only font designed by Tom Carnase.