Dennis Anderson is BPR’s consultant for fine typography and book design. Each book designed and produced at Book Production Resources will be evaluated and approved by Mr. Anderson. His book design awards are numerous. The variety of books he has designed includes everything from poetry, literary criticism, and history to the 14th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
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Dennis Anderson served exclusively for nine years as a book designer for the University of Chicago Press, with the latter half of that time as the senior book designer. His résumé of books designed at Chicago includes the 14th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, which was typeset in 1993 by Fred Thompson’s company, Graphic Composition, Inc., Athens, Georgia.
Since 1993, Anderson has been a freelance book designer. He counts as regular clients Book Production Resources, The University of Virginia Press, The University of Chicago Press, The University of Massachusetts Press, Northwestern University Press, Minnesota Historical Society Press, and International Marine.
An abbreviated list of the titles he designed may be viewed here.
Book Production Resources:
Astronomy in the Maya Codices, Harvey Bricker and Victoria Bricker; The Tower of the Winds, Pamela A. Webb; Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes, Vicent Ilardi; The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567), Jean Fernel, translated by John M. Forrester; Polar Hayes, Douglas W. Wamsley; Nature’s Bounty, Nations’s Glory, Martha W. McCartney; A Tiger Walk Through History, Paul Hemphill (University of Alabama Press); Critical Gestures, Ann Daly, (Wesleyan University Press).
University of Chicago Press:
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, Joseph Leo Koerner; The School of Prague, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann; The Place of Narrative, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin; Courbet’s Realism, Michael Fried; Tadpoles, Roy W. McDiarmid; Cetacean Societies, edited by Janet Mann, Richard Connor, Peter Tyack, and Hal Whitehead; Freshwater Fishes of México, Robert Rush Miller.
University of Massachusetts Press:
Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters, edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie; The Emily Dickinson Handbook, edited by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller; A Kind of Archeology, Elizabeth Stillinger; The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps, Fred Pelka; Meetinghouses of Early New England, Peter Benes; Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine, Kevin D. Murphy.
Minnesota Historical Society Press:
Cass Gilbert, Geoffrey Blodgett; Minnesota’s State Capital, Neil B. Thompson; Cap Wigington, David Vassar Taylor; Shining Big Sea Water, Norman K. Risjord; Minnesota Sports Almanac, Joel A. Rippel; Gopher Gold, Tim Brady; Wanda Gág, Gwenyth Swain.
Gallaudet University Press:
Surviving in Silence, Eleanor Dunai; Bug, Chistopher Jon Heuer; Listening Through the Bone, Willey Conley; A Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language, Emily Shaw and Yves Doaporte.
Northwestern University Press: Fort Dearborn, Jerry Crimmins; Drain, Davis Schneiderman; The Sickness Called Man, Ferdinando Camon; The House of Others, Silvio d’Arzo; Journey Toward the Cradle of Mankind, Guido Gozzano.
University of Virginia Press: Social Stories, Patricia Okker; Willa Cather, Janis P. Stout; When the Sun Danced, Jeffrey S. Bennett; Rhetorical Investigations, Walter Jost; Exhibiting Religion, John P. Burris.
International Marine / McGraw Hill: After the Storm, John Rousmaniere; The Last Prairie, Stephen R. Jones; At the Mercy of the Sea, John Krestschmer; Blue Horizon, Beth A. Leonard.