ellery yahia

otl aicher + 1972 munich olympics

For this typographic exercise, the assignment was to pair a designer with a related topic and lay out a book using a separate text about each of them. The two texts needed to work together on each page but also look different enough so that the reader could tell which text they are reading and be able to read them together or separately all the way through. The book needed to be about 50/50 text to image. I chose to work with the 1972 Munich Olympics and the designer who created its visual identity, Otl Aicher. The larger text on the upper half of the spreads is about Otl's personal and design life and the smaller text on the bottom half is about his involvement in the Munich Olympics. The book is set in Otl's Rotis Serif and Rotis Semi Sans.

7 in x 10 in, hand-bound.

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