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From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition

Contributed by Nick Sherman on Feb 2nd, 2014. Artwork published in .
From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition 1
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Hal Siegel’s jacket design for the first edition of Marshall McLuhan’s From Cliché to Archetype is an acute typographic interpretation of the book’s themes. With a progressive change in type styles, characters, spacing, and color, presents a literal transition from cliché to archetype.

From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition 2
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From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition 3
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The book without its jacket feels decidedly more flamboyant than the cover, imprinted with large initials set in Circus (minus a few usual flourishes from the upper half of the letters).
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The book without its jacket feels decidedly more flamboyant than the cover, imprinted with large initials set in Circus (minus a few usual flourishes from the upper half of the letters).

From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition 5
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From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition 6
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2 Comments on “From Cliché to Archetype, 1970 first edition”

  1. I can see Ultra Bodoni being used in one of the images.

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