Book Worship http://bookworship.com Book cover design from the 60s and 70s. Fri, 11 May 2012 14:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Essays in Existentialism, 1965 http://bookworship.com/?p=1878 http://bookworship.com/?p=1878#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 14:13:08 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1878 abstract graphics 60s, sixties book cover design, philosophy book 1965, sartre

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1878 0 Engineering Mechanics Dynamics, 1973 http://bookworship.com/?p=1865 http://bookworship.com/?p=1865#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:28 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1865 To think there was a time for me that textbooks only inspired a sense of dread…

textbook, 1973, houghton mifflin

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1865 0 A Method for Measuring Decision Assumptions, 1972 http://bookworship.com/?p=1861 http://bookworship.com/?p=1861#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1861 Diagonal type: Always a winner. Jacket designed by Bernie LaCasse.

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1861 0 The Captive Mind, 1955 http://bookworship.com/?p=1853 http://bookworship.com/?p=1853#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:21:03 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1853 Cover design by Paul Rand.

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1853 0 The Pyramids, 1969 http://bookworship.com/?p=1845 http://bookworship.com/?p=1845#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:27 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1845 sixties book cover design, 60s graphic design, 1960s graphic, pyramids, university of chicago press 1969

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1845 0 Managing in Times of Radical Change, 1971 http://bookworship.com/?p=1837 http://bookworship.com/?p=1837#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:58:44 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1837 Jacket design by Vincent Scotti.

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Nice color tie-in on the casewrap with the AMA logo.

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1837 0 Introduction to Matrices with Applications in Statistics, 1969 http://bookworship.com/?p=1830 http://bookworship.com/?p=1830#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:08:14 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1830 I could see spinning off a whole site of just textbooks. Although, this might not be a textbook, strictly speaking; I bet it had a jacket originally. Though I love it like this.

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And the table of contents is great, too:

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1830 0 Black Manhattan, 1968 http://bookworship.com/?p=1825 http://bookworship.com/?p=1825#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:38:46 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1825 Cover design: Chermayeff & Geismar Associates.
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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1825 0 Adaptational Psychodynamics, 1969 http://bookworship.com/?p=1815 http://bookworship.com/?p=1815#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:31:37 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1815 This one’s different. Lush photogram collages by (I’m not kidding) A. Maze.

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]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1815 2 The Unifying Moment, 1971 http://bookworship.com/?p=1803 http://bookworship.com/?p=1803#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:37:36 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1803 Of course, I love the front of this, geometric shapes, overprinting, oddball colors…
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But I also really love these two aspects of the jacket.

1.) the back is just white:
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2.) They overprinted the green and pink to get a dark brown for this halftone of the author on the flap:
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No design credit unfortunately.

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