Reclam “Universal-Bibliothek” (1988–2012)
Contributed by Stéphane Darricau
on Jul 19th, 2022. Artwork published in
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Reclam. License: All Rights Reserved.
Founded in Leipzig in 1828, German publishing house Reclam Verlag is notorious for its popular “Universal-Bibliothek” paperback series, whose brightly-coloured covers have been familiar to high-school and university students in Germany for more than fifty years.
The book series was redesigned in 1988 by Brigitte (1934–2020) and Hans Peter Willberg (1930–2003), which had retained the iconic Stempel Garamond introduced in 1969 by Reclam’s then-art director Alfred Finsterer (1908–1996).
After almost a quarter century, this design was superseded in 2012 by a new one conceived by Cornelia Feyll and Friedrich Forssman featuring DTL Documenta, see this post.
