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Tim O’Brien Series Design by Jo Walker

Tim OBrien series

As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, designer Jo Walker recently redesigned the covers of Tim O’Brien’s classic Vietnam war novels If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato, The Things they Carried, and Northern Lights for 4th Estate in the UK. The series uses a single, searing photograph of a burning Vietnam village taken in 1965 by photographer Dominique Berretty spread over the four covers. The effect is extraordinary, and the design is an interesting contrast to Cardon Webb‘s (also brilliant) typographic covers for the US editions, published by Broadway.

You can read more about Jo’s design process for the series on the 4th Estate blog.

Northern Lights
If I Die in a Combat Zone
The Things They Carried
Going After Cacciato