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 C
atalog 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 enacts Sutnar's ideas, making clear their continuing influence on graphic design.
In the book, Sutnar contrasts his design style with the conglomeration of text and pictures that characterized earlier printed material. He identifies and illustrates visual features, including typography, pictures and charts, and covers, and shows how the arrangement and organization of visual units allows information to flow smoothly. For this edition, the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Art and Design at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, has carefully recreated the original, with redrawn figures, retouched photos, re-typeset texts, five-color printing, and spiral binding. A separate reader's guide by celebrated design historian Steven Heller accompanies the book. Both book and guide are packaged in a slipcase.
一本精心製作的經典設計作品複製版，出自當今資訊設計的先驅。
在網際網路及其龐大的數位資訊儲存出現之前，類比形式的資訊需要被組織，以便於可讀性和可存取性。一位徹底改變印刷資訊呈現方式的設計師是現代主義先驅拉迪斯拉夫·蘇特納（Ladislav Sutnar，1897-1976）。在1950年，蘇特納與建築師K. Lonberg-Holm共同出版了《Catalog Design Progress》，這本指南旨在通過排版簡約、構圖巧思和導航裝置來現代化印刷材料的設計，這些裝置能夠指示資訊的邏輯流動。這本精心製作的原著複製版展示並實踐了蘇特納的理念，清楚表明了其對平面設計的持續影響。
在書中，蘇特納將他的設計風格與早期印刷材料中文字與圖片的混合進行對比。他識別並展示了視覺特徵，包括排版、圖片和圖表，以及封面，並展示了視覺單元的排列和組織如何使資訊流暢地傳遞。對於這個版本，捷克共和國比爾森的西波希米亞大學拉迪斯拉夫·蘇特納藝術與設計學院仔細重製了原作，重新繪製了圖形、修飾了照片、重新排版了文本，採用五色印刷和螺旋裝訂。著名設計歷史學家史蒂文·海勒（Steven Heller）撰寫的獨立讀者指南隨書附贈。書籍和指南均裝在一個套盒中。
Ladislav Sutnar, a Czech-born designer who came to the United States in 1939, is considered the progenitor of today's information design. Danish-born K. Lonberg-Holm trained as an architect and was an influential exponent of modernism.
Steven Heller, a design historian, is Cochair of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts and former Art Director at the
New York Times.
