Acupuncture textbook – cover and typesetting

Cover design and internal typesetting for the English translation of Masakazu Ikeda’s Contempory Clinical Foundations of the Classics, a Japanese textbook concerned with interpreting the ancient Chinese texts on acupuncture.

Typeset in Bembo, Futura and Mincho.

The kanji on the cover is printed in PMS 874, a pinkish gold spot color that doesn’t show up too well here.