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series from 1963. He recruited a number of leading designers of the day, and one of his important achievements for Penguin was to impose a consistently high standard of cover design.
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in Milan. He was invited to join the team by his friend and editorial director Giorgio Giulio Savorelli, with whom he had worked in the past. He collaborated with
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By the late 1950s he was art director at Aldus Books and working as an interior designer, working briefly in Paris. It was his interior for the Poetry Bookshop in
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In November 1971 Facetti traveled to Chile to collaborate in the formation of the School of Graphic Design at the
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After leaving Penguin in 1972 Facetti worked for the publishing company
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in the early 1950s where he took evening classes in typography at the
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While at Penguin, Facetti wrote an account of his design philosophy,
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Facetti was also responsible for the black cover designs of the
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on the 1962 groundbreaking experimental new wave film,
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printing and photography to their paperback covers.
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Identity kits: A Pictorial Survey of Visual Signals
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