Sorry for the poor image quality! A better one here.
Like the cover for white teeth, this jacket treats the typography with reverence and import; the custom(?) lettering is deeply debossed into the rough paper, making this book as tactile as Smith's last. The type is very, very beautiful and I'd like to know the typographer, as I'm still occasionally working type on the other blog even though I failed miserably at that project.
Also, in other very important news, a press release about the amazing group at Knopf:
On Wednesday, October 21st at 6:30pm, AIGA/NY is bringing together (for the first time on stage) the legendary Alfred A. Knopf design team of Carol Devine Carson, Barbara de Wilde, Archie Ferguson, and Chip Kidd.
Moderated by Peter Terzian, a contributing editor for Print magazine, the roundtable takes a look at the design group that redefined the art of American book packaging in the late 1980s. Two decades later, with the department continuing to set the bar for the trade publishing industry, the quartet will give a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of their most daring cover designs, discuss the process of collaboration, and describe the challenges affecting book jacket design today.
Peter is a great design writer and the team is my own personal pantheon. Please buy tickets
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, 2009-10-20 12:46:49 -0400
Wish i could go. should be fun.
The type on this cover is lovely. I'm all about that extra layer of tactile quality to the books finish. To me, it's equally important to the design and in some cases can even make a design more than it is...
Tactility certainly conveyed the concept in the previous White Teeth, and I feel like there might be some loose connection to hair or frilly 'beautiful' things given the typography?
By the way, just look at that A in 'BEAUTY'. *swoon*
On Beauty
Sorry for the poor image quality! A better one here.
Like the cover for white teeth, this jacket treats the typography with reverence and import; the custom(?) lettering is deeply debossed into the rough paper, making this book as tactile as Smith's last. The type is very, very beautiful and I'd like to know the typographer, as I'm still occasionally working type on the other blog even though I failed miserably at that project.
Also, in other very important news, a press release about the amazing group at Knopf:
On Wednesday, October 21st at 6:30pm, AIGA/NY is bringing together (for the first time on stage) the legendary Alfred A. Knopf design team of Carol Devine Carson, Barbara de Wilde, Archie Ferguson, and Chip Kidd.
Moderated by Peter Terzian, a contributing editor for Print magazine, the roundtable takes a look at the design group that redefined the art of American book packaging in the late 1980s. Two decades later, with the department continuing to set the bar for the trade publishing industry, the quartet will give a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of their most daring cover designs, discuss the process of collaboration, and describe the challenges affecting book jacket design today.
Peter is a great design writer and the team is my own personal pantheon. Please buy tickets
— , 2009-10-20 12:46:49 -0400
Wish i could go. should be fun.
The type on this cover is lovely. I'm all about that extra layer of tactile quality to the books finish. To me, it's equally important to the design and in some cases can even make a design more than it is...
— Ian B. Shimkoviak , 2009-10-20 13:30:47 -0400
Tactility certainly conveyed the concept in the previous White Teeth, and I feel like there might be some loose connection to hair or frilly 'beautiful' things given the typography?
By the way, just look at that A in 'BEAUTY'. *swoon*
— , 2009-10-20 14:40:32 -0400
I know. And the "S" and "H" are solid...
— Ian B. Shimkoviak , 2009-10-20 16:01:14 -0400