Modern in the Middle — Alyssa Arnesen

Detroit-based graphic designer specializing in branding and editorial design. Open for freelance opportunities

Modern in the Middle
Book Design
2020

Bud Rodecker and I worked with architectural historians Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino to design their book Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975, published by Monacelli Press.

Modern in the Middle is the first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Accompanied by original and historical photography, this collection of essays explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century.

Client
Monacelli Press

Credits
Bud Rodecker: Design Direction
Alyssa Arnesen: Design
Logan Doyle: Design
Designed while at Thirst and Span

Recognition
Docomomo US: Modernism in America Award of Excellence