The most beautiful book recently encountered (by chance at a friend's place) – looking for the designer I discovered that it was Aicher. Aicher himself had been closely linked to the German student resistance group 'white rose' that actively opposed the Nazi regime. Sophie and Hans Scholl were both shot in 1943, these are correspondences and letters written by the siblings from their teens until their execution. The beautifully and subtely used white space, the way the contents of the pages meet in a middle line as the paper lets the words shine through, the way Aicher lets the type sit extremely close to the edge of the paper – everything about it makes one wonder in awe.
The book was published in 1984 by S. Fischer Verlag.
