Catalogs: Ben Schmidt

Title: The Disposable Skateboard Bible

This is a catalog I already had laying around. It documents the history of skateboard shapes and design/art from pretty much the first board ever made to a couple of years ago.

Throughout the book it also gives a fairly detailed history of how skateboards progressed in shape and material and who all the big players in the early days of skateboarding.

It uses an old style font for all the heading tags and bold serif (something along the lines of garamond) for the body copy around 11px or so and a regular version for longer body copy.

It follows a pretty strict layout throughout, either having a two page spread be nothing but pictures of skateboards or  2 page spread with the 1/2 or 1/4 of the page saved for copy.

Title: Minimal Interiors

This catalog is all about different interiors that highly minimal and catalogs all the different ways people have made some pretty unique interiors out of almost nothing.

Given the title and subject matter of the book, the layout is super minimal, spacious, and allows for plenty of breathing space made possible by white space, leading, and not cramming the pages full of pictures and type. Only what is absolutely necessary is included each page and nothing more.

While the book follows a general layout for intros into each "chapter" per say, the contents of each chapter very slightly, but still feel cohesive overall, probably to show the different approaches to "minimalism."

There is never more than to "pieces" per page with occasional full bleed pictures.

The type a serif throughout, something along the lines of frutiger or univers maybe, and is fairly large for the heading tags, which gives the book the "modern" feel its going for

Title: A Glimpse of Brazilian Design

This book catalogs are the different types of Brazilian design from furniture, appliances, graphic design, to traditional fine art.

Each type of design is broken down into sections and categorized.

The book has plenty of white space. Two page spreads usually consist of one large/or several images that take up the whole page and are accompanied by type that is in two columns and a smaller image that "breaks" the grid.

Both the headings and the body copy are a sans serif