That New York (Brownjohn,Chermayeff and Geismar)

In 1960 The Composing Room of 130 West 46th Street in N.Y.C. worked with Der Druckspiegel and a handful of American designers at the forefront of the bleed edge of the experimental downtown vanguard presented four 16-page booklets showing off what could be done with type and illustration and the latest technology which consisted of “cutting” and “pasting”—by which we mean literally cutting things and pasting things. This is the second in that series. That New York covers the electricity of the city as observed by Robert Brownjohn, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar. Also, FYI, it features a photograph by the father of the bass player for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. And it includes a photo by one of the Maisel Brothers.