Last week I had the pleasure of attending the AIGA event Knopf: Then and Now and it was great to see some jackets I hadn't ever seen before, like this Barbara de Wilde cover. Note the complete lack of color on the first edition, and then the second edition and how it changed... not necessarily for the better. An oldie but a goodie, and the first time I'd seen it.
Also, thanks Knopf for sharing your experiences and stories!
Exquisite negative space, delicate dimensionality, and hand written text effortlessly united with lovely, understated typesetting. Gorgeous and an inspiration I will definitely be sharing with my typography students. Thank you so much for sharing this!
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Anonymous Coward
, 2009-10-28 09:58:54 -0400
Amazingly subtle. I wish all publishers would be open to this level of subtlety.
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Anonymous Coward
, 2009-10-28 14:49:11 -0400
hmm i don't know. doesn't seem particularly compelling-- has more of an illustrated look than a photo-realistic illusion of paper emerging into space. not that that is inherently bad (don't we all love illustrated covers) it's just that it seems to want to be more illusory than it succeeds at being...? i have not seen it in the flesh tho.
but god i know we can agree the second edition is a sin.
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, 2009-10-29 12:54:53 -0400
Well said, Shalls. I absolutely agree... it's stuck somewhere between realism and Photoshop. In that respect, I don't really get the end result of the treatment and the concept. The other version, though, fully embraces a graphic disaster.
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Last week I had the pleasure of attending the AIGA event Knopf: Then and Now and it was great to see some jackets I hadn't ever seen before, like this Barbara de Wilde cover. Note the complete lack of color on the first edition, and then the second edition and how it changed... not necessarily for the better. An oldie but a goodie, and the first time I'd seen it.
Also, thanks Knopf for sharing your experiences and stories!
— , 2009-10-26 10:22:19 -0400
stunning. love it.
— Ian B. Shimkoviak , 2009-10-27 17:28:35 -0400
Exquisite negative space, delicate dimensionality, and hand written text effortlessly united with lovely, understated typesetting. Gorgeous and an inspiration I will definitely be sharing with my typography students. Thank you so much for sharing this!
— Anonymous Coward , 2009-10-28 09:58:54 -0400
Amazingly subtle. I wish all publishers would be open to this level of subtlety.
— Anonymous Coward , 2009-10-28 14:49:11 -0400
hmm i don't know. doesn't seem particularly compelling-- has more of an illustrated look than a photo-realistic illusion of paper emerging into space. not that that is inherently bad (don't we all love illustrated covers) it's just that it seems to want to be more illusory than it succeeds at being...? i have not seen it in the flesh tho.
but god i know we can agree the second edition is a sin.
— , 2009-10-29 12:54:53 -0400
Well said, Shalls. I absolutely agree... it's stuck somewhere between realism and Photoshop. In that respect, I don't really get the end result of the treatment and the concept. The other version, though, fully embraces a graphic disaster.
— Chad , 2009-10-30 13:34:26 -0400
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