Editor: Frederike Huygen; Hugues C. Boekraad

Publisher: Uitgeverij 010, Rotterdam

Publication: 1997, First Edition

Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound

Pages: 428

Size: 175 x 230

Text: Dutch

Wim Crouwel: mode en module attempts something new: to document and discuss at length and with full historical and critical consciousness the work of a living graphic designer. Even dead and safely ‘in-the-past’ graphic designers have not yet received this treatment. By comparison with the present book, other monographs are slight affairs or, where less than slight, tend to be overblown and uncritical. On a first encounter with it, the Crouwel book certainly gives an air of thoroughness: a solid squat paperback, weighing 1250 gm, pages packed with text and many photographs, a seemingly exhaustive illustrated catalogue of work that extends to almost 200 pages, a lengthy ‘biographical overview’, full bibliography, two indexes. 

Date written in pen on the folded front flap, presumably by an unscrupulous previous owner (see images above).