Church up the street had a rummage sale, and I found this great series. Uses overprinting to good effect.
Archive for 'Odd'
Who doesn’t love zooming boxes?
(The Hatier logo is pretty cool, too.)
Here’s something a little different—and older—than I usually feature. But still very graphic and abstract cover in its own way. The back (second shot, detail) retains more of the gold stamping it originally had.
Not a how-to book. Cover art by Johanna Sperl.
Strange one. The layout on the front is a little random, almost cool. The inside is totally typewritten, but the cover’s really printed—maybe done ahead of time and then quickly bound after the conference? Dunno. But I like the little graphic composition.
Something a little different. I know it had a jacket of some kind at one point (someone cut off the flaps and taped them inside!), but I like it this way, with the stamped water and blind-embossed rocks.
Published in Uruguay.
From Chile. Bad printing. Bad paper. So good.
This type is really nice, too:
“A theological essay on festivity and fantasy.” Whoa.
Though it’s clearly of its time, it’s still a tight design, and the total package is quite well done. Jacket design by Gretchen Rosengren.
Below: This is not some bit of RGB trickery: the end pages are crazy dayglow—hurts the eyes.
