it is not sutnar�s design
the design was created by petr babak, a czech designer. the exhibition was called prague - new york (now it is understandable, isn�t it?) and the picture is the cover for the book (and the poster as well as the billboard).
regards,
pavel

Hi, Pavel. Do you know if the catalogue is available internationally?

Congratulations on your great magazine, by the way. I'm a proud subscriber
thanks to a tip from Hrant.

The catalogue is in English and published by the Argo publishing house in Prague. The ISBN is 80-7203-515-0, I guess it should be available internationally.

I visited the exhibition in the Neues Museum Nürnberg. The exhibition there is very nicely done and I enjoyed it very much. I�d say about half of the exhibition deals with the graphic work of Sutnar and the other half displays products designed by him. The only complaint I have about the exhibition in Nürnberg is the guided tour I took -- the guide obviously had not much interest in typography and sometimes even referred to it as "typology".

Thanks a lot Jes�s!
Hrant is a big supporter of our modest project. :-)

To those who might be interested, there is a great web page www.sutnar.com prepared especially for the exhibition.

And if anybody wants to buy the book about Sutnar, please contact Argo Publishing House distribution manager at pavel.krummer@argo.cz

I am little busy now, but if you need more info on this topic I will gladly reply over the weeekend.


pavel

I took a trip to Prague just to see the Sutnar exhibition, and it was well worth it!

Recently received the English version of the exhibition catalogue via the ever wonderful Nijhof & Lee, but not had any free time to sit down and pour over it.

What was very nice to see was at the time of the exhibition in Prague, the posters of the exhibition were *everywhere* (bus shelters, billboards etc). You wouldn't see that in many cities around the world...

Pavel,

Thanks a million!
The mystery is solved!

Bob

In fact, it was the very first Sutnar's retrospective exhibition in Czech Republic. And yes, it was quite successful with a great media support - every newspapers and weekly magazine reviewed it. The curator, Iva Knobloch, had been preparing it for five years. I hope that ATypI Prague Conference attendees won't miss an opportunity to watch her talk on Sutnar! She is really an expert in Sutnar's life and work.

Pavel

Pavel,

One other question: Do you know the date Petr Babak created the design?

tia,
Bob

I do not know the exact date but sice we co-operated closely on the book I saw the first sketches in November-December 2002, I guess.

Pavel

Pavel,

Thanks again.
You've been very helpful.

Bob