Designer Richard Eckersley worked with Derrida on the 1986 book Glas, written as a collage of literary, philosophical, and scientific fragments. With his design of Avital Ronal's The Telephone Book in 1989, Eckersley pushed the visual interpretation of theoretical texts even farther by generating typographic analogues for the author's speculations on electronic media. Eckersley attributes his interpretive license in designing these books to the permissive spirit of the writing as well as the flexibility engendered by desktop page layout systems, which shifted typographic control from the typesetter to the designer. [back] © Copyright 1996 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Glas Book, 1986, offset lithograph Designer: Richard Eckersley Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln Collection Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Gift of the designer The Telephone Book Book, 1989, offset lithograph Designer: Richard Eckersley (b. 1941) Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln Collection Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Gift of the designer