Germano Facetti
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Germano Facetti (5 May 1926 – 8 April 2006) was an Italian graphic designer who headed design at Penguin Books from 1962 to 1971.
Biography
Born in
He moved to
By the late 1950s he was art director at Aldus Books and working as an interior designer, working briefly in Paris. It was his interior for the Poetry Bookshop in
Facetti was also responsible for the black cover designs of the Penguin Classics series from 1963.[4] He recruited a number of leading designers of the day, and one of his important achievements for Penguin was to impose a consistently high standard of cover design.
In November 1971 Facetti traveled to Chile to collaborate in the formation of the School of Graphic Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso.
After leaving Penguin in 1972 Facetti worked for the publishing company
Publications
While at Penguin, Facetti wrote an account of his design philosophy, Identity kits: A Pictorial Survey of Visual Signals. It was published in 1967 and reprinted in 1971 and 2007.[5]
Death
Facetti died on 8 April 2006, aged 79.
References
- ^ Richard Hollis (2006-04-11). "Germano Facetti". The Guardian.
- ^ "Germano Facetti - Obituaries - News - The Independent". archive.is. 2012-07-11. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ^ Rick Poynor (2006-04-12). "Underneath the covers". The Guardian.
- ^ Martin Yates, ed. (2006). The Penguin Companion. Penguin Collectors Society.
- ^ Phil Baines and Steve Hare, ed. (2007). Penguin by Designers. Penguin Collectors Society. pp. 29–48.
