To commemorate the first year of The Second Pass website, editor John Williams asked a few readers to recommend their favorite out-of-print book and he very kindly (some might say charitably) asked me to contribute.
I chose to write about Nova 1965-1975 by David Hillman and Harri Peccinotti, which I discovered in Jason Godfrey’s Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books (one of my favourite books of last year).
Don’t worry, lots of actual smart people also contributed.
(images courtesy of Jason Godfrey, author of Bibliographic. Full disclosure: Bibliographic is distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books).
[…] might not catch your eye in a title listing, but if you like anything Swiss, you’ll love this; Nova: 1965-1975 (1993) is a shocking reminder that the 1990s style magazine wasn’t invented in the […]