Peter Mendelsund’s faultless redesigns for the Vintage editions of Foucault…
Stunning.
New Vintage Foucault
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"THE BASIS FOR OPTIMISM IS SHEER TERROR" — Oscar Wilde
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- Was kind of hoping @gary_hustwit's next movie would be about book design. But hey, the design of cities is OK... :-) http://ow.ly/2iudF
- @john_self He has his own wikipedia entry of course: http://ow.ly/2im4E ;-)
- @john_self His old novels do as well (he's a character in Pattern Recognition and Spook Country).
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Faultless? They seem just a bit far too obvious.
Thanks for your comment Sara. But, needless to say I disagree. I think good design often seems like an obvious or simple solution after the fact. Surely that’s part of the brilliance?
Pierre Riviere is good, the other two are obviously designed by someone who hasn’t read the books. Needs some improvement. Screw? Seriously?