"Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer" is one of those must-have books for design practitioners and design students, as well as anyone who is interested in design history and American modernism during the twentieth century. This full-color monograph documents de Harry's pioneering and prolific 50-year career in graphic design, exhibition design, environmental and experiential design, industrial design, furniture design, posters, books, and magazines for a wide range of clients including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cummins Engine Company, McGraw-Hill Publishers, and many others

"Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer" is organized chronologically into six major chapters that cover the life and career of Rudolph de Harak from 1924 through to 2002. While the first chapter examines a time period of approximately twenty-five years, the remaining five chapters each examine a period of ten years in his life and career, as well as influences and collaborations during those same timeframes. Each chapter and time period is represented with distinct characteristics and achievements, and are also intended to provide readers with a greater understanding of his evolution as a modernist designer within a broader cultural and design context. The narrative and visual content of each of chapter is also supported by sidebars on various designers, artists, architects, art movements, and typefaces that had a direct and major influence on his life and career.