Mushrooms and Toadstools by Jacqueline Seymour
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Dec 12th, 2021. Artwork published in
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5 Comments on “Mushrooms and Toadstools by Jacqueline Seymour”
Windsor Mushrooms are a popular dish…
There is an incredible amount of mushroom books with cover typography in Windsor, certainly from the 1970s and 1980s! (And those that don’t show Windsor often use something similar.) I wonder why that is. I get that Windsor looks organic and a little buckled and all, but still …
I can’t help but imagine the use of Windsor for the Whole Earth Catalog series had an influence on the type choices for these DIY / counter-culture-adjacent guidebooks.
Full agreement. But there’s something mushroomy about Windsor’s design that made it a good match, too. The Krieger book was published in June 1967, more than a year before the first issue of Whole Earth Catalog came out.