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Published May 5, 2014

Triangles, Quadrangles, Shards, and Fragments

This is my last post on book covers and triangles — for the time being at least. I hope you’ve enjoyed this three-sided, three-post design diversion (you can see the previous posts here and here):

Adjacent
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest; design by Martin Stiff, Amazing15 (Titan Books April 2014) 1

book-of-heaven
The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon February 2014)

book-of-my-lives
The Books of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon; design by Jonathan Pelham (Picador February 2014)

box-of-birds
A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough; design by Dan Mogford (Unbound May 2013)

close-to-the-machine
Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman; design by Clare Skeats (Pushkin Press March 2013)

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Connectome by Sebastian Seung; design by Matthew Young (Penguin June 2013)

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Contradance by John Peck; design by Natalie F. Smith (University of Chicago Press October 2011)

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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage August 2004)

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Gun Dealers’ Daughter by Gina Apostol; design by Jaya Miceli (W. W. Norton August 2012)

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November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

Stories and Prose Poems by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux November 2014)

Design by Oliver Munday

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The Scandal of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; design by Matthew Young (Penguin

snowdrops
Snowdrops by A. D. Miller; design by Emily Mahon (Doubleday February 2011)

time-machine
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin May 2012)

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We Are Animals by Justin Torres; design by Gray318 (Granta March 2012)

your-face-mine
Your Face in Mine by Jess Row; design by Oliver Munday (Riverhead August 2014)

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Published May 1, 2014

Triangles Are My Favourite Shape Part Two

To paraphrase The Smiths circa 1987, I may have started something I can’t finish with this triangles on book covers thing. Typical me. This is my second post on the topic, and there is one more in the works, but then I think I will be done. Enjoy…

Antifragile (hardcover)
Antifragile (paperback)

Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb (Penguin hardcover November 2012)

Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb (Penguin paperback November 2013)

Design by Jim Stoddart

castle-kafka
The Castle by Franz Kafka; design by Peter Mendelsund (Schocken 2011)

dark-winter
The Dark Winter by David Mark; design by Jamie Keenan (Blue Rider Press October 2012)

dubliners
Dubliners by James Joyce; artwork Apfel Zet (Penguin April 2012)

generation-a
Generation A by Douglas Coupland; design by Jennifer Heuer (Simon & Schuster June 2010)


On Booze by F. Scott Fitzgerald (New Directions July 2011)

The Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol  (New Directions Oct 2011)

Design by Rodrigo Corral

persona-non-grata
Persona Non-Grata by Tom Flanagan; design by Scott Richardson (Random House April 2014)

Tenth-of-December
Tenth of December by George Saunders; design by Chelsea Cardinal (Random House August 2013)

mamet-war-stories
Three War Stories by David Mamet; design by Alex Camlin (Argo-Navis November 2013)

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Published April 28, 2014

Triangles Are My Favourite Shape

Let’s tessellate…

I’ve been thinking a lot about triangle patterns recently (that’s just how my mind works — don’t ask) and collecting together a few book covers (and related matter) that use them in their designs. I thought I’d share some of the things I’ve come across here…

MythOfSis
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus; design by Helen Yentus (Vintage Books 2007) harvard-review-35-full

Harvard Review #35 (Fall 2008), #39 (Fall 2010) and #41 (Winter 2011); design by Alex Camlin

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Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage edited by Robert Klanten, Hendrik Hellige and J. Gallagher (Gestalten February 2011) — collages by Jelle Martens

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Traveller of the Century by Andrés Neuman; design by Clare Skeats (Pushkin Press, January 2013)

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La Boîte aux lettres du cimetière by Serge Pey (Éditions Zulma February 2014)

Notre quelque part by Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Éditions Zulma February 2014)

Dictionnaire du parfait cynique by Roland Jaccard (Éditions Zulma March 2007)

La Troisième Balle by Leo Parutz (Éditions Zulma October 2014)

Design by David Pearson

(I also rather like the cover for Le Goût âpre des kakis by Zoyâ Pirzâd as well)

sounds good
Sounds Good 101 Poems to be Heard edited by Christopher Reid; design by Eleanor Crow (Faber & Faber, March 2012)

Herbert Scarf’s Contributions to Economics, Game Theory and Operations Research Volumes 1-3 by Edited by Zaifu Yang (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2013)

The Here And Now
The Here and Now by Ann Brashares; design by Natalie Sousa (Delacorte Press, April 2014)

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Cataract City by Craig Davidson; design by Kapo Ng (Graywolf, July 2014)


The Last Days by Laurent Seksik; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press, Nov 2013)

 

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Juxtapoz Psychedelic by Hannah Stouffer (Gingko Press February 2014)

( Unfortunately I’m not sure the image quite does justice to this cover…

Update:

A excellent addition to the list from UK designer Stuart Bache:

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Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead; design by Stuart Bache (Blue Door May 2014)

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