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Penguin Composition Book Design

A book-design study applying Penguin Composition Rules and illustrating the rules through typography.

Project type
Book design & typography
Practice / role
Editorial & typographic design
Source publication
December 14th 2017 · Behance
Publication date, not a creation-date claim.

Context & credits

Book design and typographic illustrations by Kacy George. Source text: Jan Tschichold. The cover credits “An excerpt from Jan Tschichold / Design by Kacy George.”

Source & provenance

Original project statement

The idea of this project was to design a book where the Penguin Composition Rules were applied and then create typographical illustrations as examples.

Originally published on Behance: December 14th 2017. This is the portfolio publication date, not a separately confirmed creation date unless stated in the project.

View the original Behance project

The source entry displays CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Incorporated third-party artwork, photography, text and marks retain their respective credits.