book (design) story #146
zollikofer & co. ag:
schriften buchdruck offset
zollikofer & co. ag, st. gallen, 1962
printer: zollikofer & co. ag, st. gallen
size: 31 x 11 cm
designer: max koller
zollikofer is a 200-year old publishing house based in st. gallen, switzerland. here we have one of the company's type specimen catalogues.
it's a tall and slim slipcase containing booklets with colour-coded spines.
this design by zollikofer's in-house typographer max koller (*1933), who had been working for gerstner+kutter before, ...
... won a "most beautiful swiss books" award in 1962 (see "beauty and the book", isbn 3721205405).
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