Archive for June, 2012


The Enchanted Ring, 1982

Second printing, looks like it was designed earlier.

Credit reads: Rendering of beta-lactam by Elizabeth Sheehan Watkins. Design by Celia Wilson.

Worth a zoom in (click) to see how they used green as one of the colors to get this odd overprint.

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Oddly, this book is mostly text.

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Existence and Being

No indication of the year on this one.

heidegger, gateway editions, abstract book covers 60s 70s, sixties design, seventies graphic design, circles


Srdce Nechodí Samo, 1968

A beautiful Czech book, with the design carried through to the case.

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I particularly like the texture of the jacket stock:

czech book jacket 1968

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yale university press, geometric book cover, abstract graphic cover sixties, 60s book graphics, 1960s graphic design, squares


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