Massin

Robert Massin (b. 1925), the celebrated French graphic artist, art director, typographer and writer, has made a remarkable contribution to the history of book design. He has worked as a graphic designer in Paris since the 1950s, and spent and twenty years as art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first comprehensive monograph published in English to explore Massin's impressive body of work. It present an essential portfolio of his career to date, examining in detail the milestones of his professional life. Laetitia Wolff charts his wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects. The book is a result of many conversations between the author and the artist, and is richly illustrated with almost five hundred images, many of which are taken from Massin's personal archives and published here for the first time, including books, layouts, posters, preparatory sketches and letters.