book (design) story #409
lin taiyi:
das leben ist stärker
büchergilde gutenberg, zürich, 1945
size: ?? x ?? cm
designer: richard paul lohse
richard paul lohse (1902-1988) used a variety of design styles for this büchergilde book: while the photgraphic jacket employs akzidenz-grotesk, the trademark typeface of the "swiss style", ...
... an eastern ornament adornes the cover, ...
... while the asymmetric title spread combines a chinese ink drawing with garamond type – with vertically arranged words, like traditional chinese writing.
this is a german translation of the 1943 novel "war tide" by young chinese-american author lin tai-yi (=anor lin/lin wu-schuang, 1926-2003), the daughter of the famous writer lin yutang (see story 476).
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