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The Helmet of Horror | Angus Hyland

by Dan on July 21, 2011

As a follow up to yesterday’s Design Matters post, I just wanted to share Angus Hyland’s extraordinary design for The Helmet of Horror by Victor  Pelevin, published as part Canongate’s Myths series a few years ago:

The illustration is by Sara Fanelli.

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Angus Hyland | Design Matters

by Dan on July 20, 2011

Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed book covers for Canongate, Penguin and others. On the latest Design Matters podcast, Hyland discusses childhood brand recognition, Tintin, music, dyslexia, book design and his new book Symbol, co-authored with Steven Bateman, with host Debbie Millman:

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Disclosure: Symbol is published by Laurence King and distributed in Canada by my employer Raincoast Books. 

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Incognito

June 2, 2011

I love this cover for the Canongate edition of Incognito by David Eagleman. It looks like something from the brilliant Fontana Modern Masters series by way of Bridget Riley and Wallpaper* magazine. Stunning. Can anyone tell me who the designer is? Thanks (via This Isn’t Happiness) Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

June 23, 2010

Tom Gauld‘s cover illustration for Death at Intervals by José Saramago, who died last week, aged 87. From The New York Times obituary: [T]he critic James Wood wrote: “José Saramago was both an avant-gardist and a traditionalist. His long blocks of unbroken prose, lacking conventional markers like paragraph breaks and quotation marks, could look forbidding [...]

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Gil Scott-Heron Redesigns by Stuart Bache

June 8, 2010

Born in Chicago, April 1, 1949, poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron is perhaps best known for the politically infused bluesy soul and proto-hip-hop he created with Brian Jackson in the early 1970′s. Although recently troubled by drug addiction and in and out of prison for drug possession, an apparently resurgent Scott-Heron released his first studio [...]

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