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Vintage Feminism

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Earlier this month Vintage UK published new editions of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecroft.

As CMYK, the Vintage design blog, revealed, these new editions were designed in-house by the talented Mr. Matthew Broughton, and feature black and white photography by Anton Stankowski on The Beauty Myth and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Joy Gregory on my personal favourite, The Second Sex.

Interestingly, Vintage have also published  smaller format ‘short editions’ of the same three books — The Second Sex, The Beauty Myth, and  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — featuring key extracts from the main texts.

In contrast to the sharp photographic covers above, the short editions feature illustrated covers designed by Gray318 with something of retro, E. McKnight Kauffer or Alvin Lustig, feel:

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3 Comments

  1. Cate

    Seems like a missed opportunity for Vintage to get one of their talented female designers on this series?

    • Dan

      Thanks for your comment, Cate. I like these designs, particularly the cover of The Second Sex, which uses a photograph by Joy Gregory. But the same thought did occur to me — why not a female designer for the series? I don’t blame Matt or Jon, who I think did a really nice job here. This is a wider problem within publishing as a whole. Women should have more (and better) opportunities to design interesting, and challenging covers across the board.

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