We all learned from Tom Suzuki
Oh, textbooks. How we who no longer have occasion to flip through your dynamically designed pages miss your tables and graphs, your colour-coded sidebars.
Seriously.
It turns out though, that engaging design wasn’t always a part of textbook production. It wasn’t until Tom Suzuki, an art director and graphic designer in the U.S., “turned the [textbook design] process on its head” in the 1970s that the design of a textbook first began to relate to its content.
New York Times writer Stephen Heller’s obituary of Suzuki, who died on Sept. 3, features a discussion of Suzuki’s “mold-breaking” innovations in “a genre long strait-jacketed by outdated formats.”
Who knew discussions of textbook design could be so compelling?
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