Cette mer qui nous entoure, Rachel L. Carson
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Credits
- Jeanine Fricker 4 Designer
- Rachel Carson Author
Format
- Book 880
Type of Work
- Book 128
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Techniques
- printing 666
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Locations Made
- France 76
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Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
Cette mer qui nous entoure (The Sea Around Us) is a prize-winning and best-selling book, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings. Often described as “poetic,” it was Carson’s second published book and the one that launched her into the public eye and a second career as a writer and conservationist; it is counted the second book of her so-called sea trilogy.
In this book Jeanine Fricker makes use of semitransparent coloured paper with illustrations of different sea creatures to create a deepness in her design. The cover of the book has a plastic dust jacket that is printed with black lines making it look like the movement of water and on the cover, sea creatures in different colors are silkscreened all around.
This book is published by the book club ‘Le club du meilleur livre’ in France. The books from this book club could be mail-ordered directly home, and they were not available in bookstores.
Jeanine Fricker is a French graphic designer, very much hidden from graphic design history books, even though she had an incredible career as a book designer and art director.
