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Ben Wiseman | Chekhov

by Dan on January 11, 2010

I really like these Chekov covers for W.W. Norton by Rodrigo Corral Design‘s Ben Wiseman:


But I think the alternates are pretty special too:

There is a very short interview with Ben at idsgn.

(via FormFiftyFive and Cosas Visuales)

Update:

The good folks at W.W. Norton have just added Ben’s Chekhov covers to their Flickr design archive (thank you!).

These new editions are available in July 2010.

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Hunger

by Dan on August 6, 2009

At the risk of this turning into W.W. Norton Week on The Casual Optimist, I wanted to re-post this gorgeous cover for Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang designed by High Design, with art direction by Albert Tang. It was originally included with my Q & A with Norton’s Ingsu Liu earlier this week, but removed when I updated the post.

W.W. Norton Book Design Archive on Flickr

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Q & A with Ingsu Liu, W.W. Norton

August 4, 2009

Having spent a lot of my life in the UK, I wasn’t particularly familiar with venerable New York independent publisher  W.W. Norton and Co. until my stint at Toronto’s (now doomed) Pages Books and Magazines where their books were frequently on tables. Although I left Pages a few years ago, I was recently reminded of [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, June 17th, 2009

June 17, 2009

Claustrophobic and Irrational — I love these elegantly understated designs by Rodrigo Corral and Christopher Brand Jason Ramirez for Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley books published by W.W. Norton. A Strategy For Authenticity — Don Linn, prolific Twitterer and publisher at The Taunton Press, on O’Reilly’s Twitter Boot Camp and Twitter as a marketing channel: I’m relatively [...]

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Something for the Weekend, May 22nd, 2009

May 22, 2009

Das Boot — David Drummond’s cover for Canadian Water Politics Edited by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller has been selected for the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers this year. The book is published by McGill-Queens University Press who clearly take pride in the look of their books and have some other rather nice [...]

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