Book Worship http://bookworship.com Book cover design from the 60s and 70s. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Urban Life and Form, 1965 http://bookworship.com/?p=1058 http://bookworship.com/?p=1058#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1058 urbanism 60s, sixties book cover graphics, flat, isometric, 3-color graphics, 1965, werner z hirsch, holt rinehart winston

detail, flat graphics, sixties, urbanism, 3-color graphics, holt rinehart and winston inc.

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1058 0 The Crime of Galileo, 1965 http://bookworship.com/?p=1047 http://bookworship.com/?p=1047#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:35:35 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1047 Simple and appropriate. Love it.

By Ed and Jane Bedno. Another husband and wife design duo!

60s design, sixties book cover design, 1065, abstract graphics, minimal jacket design

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1047 0 Amerika http://bookworship.com/?p=1036 http://bookworship.com/?p=1036#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:18:08 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1036 Umschlagentwurf von Hans Schaumberger. (I believe that means Hans Schaumberger did the cover design.)

sixties graphic design, 60s book cover design, germany, piper, hans Schaumberger

german graphic design 60s, 1960s book design

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1036 0 Introduction to Elementary Mathematical Logic, 1970 http://bookworship.com/?p=1028 http://bookworship.com/?p=1028#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:32:44 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1028 One of my favorite recent finds. (And more dots!)

mit press, 70s math book, seventies graphic design, abstract book cover design, 1970

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1028 0 The Founding of New Societies, 1969 http://bookworship.com/?p=1024 http://bookworship.com/?p=1024#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:41:04 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1024 …dots!

Cover design by Donald + Ann Crews.

louis hartz, founding of new socitieties, late 60s graphic design, sixties book cover design, 1969 paperback, anthropology, sociology, abstract graphics, dots

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1024 0 Design for the Real World, 1973 http://bookworship.com/?p=1017 http://bookworship.com/?p=1017#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:28:15 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1017 Here’s a good lesson: if they ask you to put a huge blurb on the cover, just make that the design.

type-driven book cover, 70s book design, seventies paperback, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, victor papanek
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, victor papanek, 1973

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1017 3 Handbook of Micromethods for the Biological Sciences, 1974 http://bookworship.com/?p=1014 http://bookworship.com/?p=1014#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:11:23 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1014 Love this one. Maybe mostly cuz it came out of the dollar bin outside the store, but still. So geometric. So abstract. So 1974.

70s graphic design, abstract seventies, 1974, keleti, lederer, biological sciences handbook, helvetica light

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1014 0 Uniqueness and Diversity in Human Evolution, 1975 http://bookworship.com/?p=1006 http://bookworship.com/?p=1006#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:25:15 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1006 seventies graphic design, design for science, 70s book design, 1975 molecule illustration, anthropology, charles oxnard, hard cover, book jacket design

1975, atomic illustrations, atoms, molecules, anthropology, science seventies, book design

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1006 0 The Uses of Disorder, 1971 http://bookworship.com/?p=1002 http://bookworship.com/?p=1002#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:48:33 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=1002 Dots.

seventies book cover design, sennett, psychology, purple, dots, halftone illustraition, 70s graphic design

]]> http://bookworship.com/?feed=rss2&p=1002 0 Equality, 1971 http://bookworship.com/?p=998 http://bookworship.com/?p=998#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:18:14 +0000 Shawn http://bookworship.com/?p=998 Love the simplicity of this—the idea and the execution.

Jacket design by Paul May.

equality, minimal design, black and white, 70s book jacket, seventies graphic design

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