Catalogs - Ramirez

The three exhibition catalogs that I picked up at Alkek Library are Klimt’s Women, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfredo Häberli: Design Live. 

Klimt’s Women features a rich, detailed background over Gustav Klimt’s relationships, specifically those that lead to a female portraiture.  The book is densely packed with text, supported by color photographs of his paintings as well as miniature grayscale photos that supplement the reading.

The typeface for the main bodies of text is a san-serif font resembling Trade Gothic. Titles of chapters or sections use a serif font, and an attractive thin san-serif at the beginning of chapters for the name Gustav Klimt.

Oskar Kokoschka features paintings by the Austrian artist, each having its own caption with details and history. The type is laid out in square grids of information with numbered paragraphs assigned to each painting that lies in a different page.

The main body type is a serif font resembling Georgia. 

Alfredo Häberli: Design Live is the brightest catalog, most filled with photography and supplemented with essays written in German. The photos are different genres, ranging from still lives to industrial design portraiture.  The serif type is presented in a very large, easy to read manner.