Designer

Mark Argetsinger

Mark Argetsinger, the paterfamilias of the family business, has been a celebrated book designer and copy-editor since 1990. Before his over two-decades-long stint as an independent designer, he worked as an assistant to a letterpress shop in a Cistercian monastery. After undergraduate study in Classics (Greek & Latin) and Ancient Philosophy, he studied calligraphy at a studio in New York City. He worked as a book designer at A. A. Knopf in New York City and at Princeton University Press, the latter from 1984 to 1987, and then, before setting up independently, served as a book designer for Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, from 1987 to 1990. 

Mark is the author of A Grammar of Typography: Classical Design in the Digital Age published by Godine in 2020, and has won awards in publication design competitions hosted by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Argetsinger is also the recipient of the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design (1998).