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"Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design" is a comprehensive survey of the very best of cover and jacket design from the 20th century. The most important and innovative designs are explored, including the distinctive yellow dust-jackets of the Gollancz novels of the 1930s, the colour-coded series design of Penguin paperbacks in the 1960s and the award-winning paperback designs by Canongate in the 1990s. Chapters are devoted to separate themes - the development of the modern book jacket in the 1920s and 1930s, the diverse styles that evolved in the post-war era, the paperback explosion of the 1960s and 1970s, and the recent revival in jacket design in the hands of design companies such as Pentagram. Revealing double-page features appear in each chapter on such tropics as the Cold War novel, classic novels of the period, and individual authors such as Len Deighton and Ian Fleming. With 300 jackets in full-colour, including rare first editions, innovative designs by leading designers such as E.McKnight Kauffer and Paul Rand, and newly discovered gems, together with an insightful text by leading design expert Alan Powers, this fascinating book will delight anyone with a passion for books.

Table of Contents:
Chapter One: The Impact of Modernism; The Modernist Jacket; Designing in Monochrome; Graphic Innovation; Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious; Victor Gollancz; Classic Novels; Strange and Surreal; Barnett Freedman; Penguin: The Creation of a Brand; Early Paperback Series; Colour and Printing; The Author as Artist; Dutch Graphic Design; Chapter Two: The Creation of Style; Lettering; Edward McKnight Kauffer; European Writers; Bond Novels; Science Fiction; Alvin Lustig; Through the Keyhole; American Classic Novels; Penguin and the Paperback; Kitchen-sink Novels; Discreetly Scandalous: Lolita; The Pulp Fiction Jacket; American Graphic Artists; The American Thriller; The Beat Generation; Playing with Typography; British Classic Novels; Chapter Three: A Revolution in Print; Psychedelia; Exploring the Erotic; Len Deighton; Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar; Paul Rand; The British Crime Novel; The Paperback Explosion: Penguin; The Paperback Explosion: Other; Publishers; Cold War Paranoia; The Times They Are a-Changin'; Poetry; Classic Novels; Counter Culture; Agatha Christie; Chapter Four: Design in the Digital Age; Faber and Faber; Picador; Harvill Press; Bloomsbury; Postmodern Novel; Penguin: New Designs; Pocket Canons; Sparrow Press; Andrzej Klimowski; Granta; Jeff Fisher; Indigo; Rebel Inc; Grove Atlantic.

About the Author :
Dr Alan Powers writes and lectures on architecture and applied art. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich School of Architecture and Landscape, and is actively involved in the Twentieth Century Society. He is the author of Living with Books and Living with Pictures, and contributed to the best-selling Elements of Design (Mitchell Beazley 1991). Dr Powers frequently contributes to magazines including, Country Life, Crafts and The Spectator. In 1999 he was guestcurator of the exhibition on British Modernism of the 1930s at the Design Museum, London. He lives in London.

Review :
A fascinating book" Literary Review "A treat for book lovers" Time Out


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845332426
  • Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Mitchell Beazley
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 672 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845332423
  • Publisher Date: 19 Oct 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design
  • Width: 230 mm


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