Four Winning Designs

Among the "Fifty Books of the Year" chosen for excellence of design and manufacture by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Alvin Eisenman '43, typographer for the Yale University Press, designed four of them, the largest number by any one individual to receive such recognition. The Yale Press, with six books picked by the judges, led the 35 publishers represented in the fifty selections.

Opening in New York, Boston and Chicago on April 5, the Fifty Books of the Year exhibition was held for a month in each city. More than 600 volumes were submitted to the judges who had the task of choosing the fifty best. The Eisenman designs honored were: An Armada of Thirty Whales by Daniel G. Hoffman, The Dancing Bears by W. S. Merwin, Early Victorian Architecture in Britain by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and Lyric Poetry of the ItalianRenaissance collected by L. R. Lind.

Eisenman, who has been Typographer for the Yale University Press since 1950, was given the additional honor of having three of his designs listed among the fifteen receiving special praise by Publishers' Weekly in its review of the exhibition.