“Good design is the process of solv­ing the prob­lem posed by the man­u­script.”
—Richard Eck­er­s­ley

Richard Eck­er­s­ley, an award-win­ning graph­ic design­er who intro­duced uncon­ven­tion­al typog­ra­phy to staid-look­ing uni­ver­si­ty-press books, died on Sun­day at his home in Lin­coln, Neb. He was 65. — New York Times