#bookjackets — Public Fediverse posts
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The article includes a selection of jacket designs that hint at Ursula Suess’s wide range of lettering styles: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/62531/as-we-are-now-book-jacket#comment-887351
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A homage to Ursula Suess on the occasion of her 100th birthday:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/62531/as-we-are-now-book-jacketThe German-American artist designed many book jackets for publishers in NYC. In 1971/72, she created a typeface derived from her lettering, named Book Jacket.
@fhardwig shows examples of Book Jacket in use, including two by the designer herself.
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Jan Tchichold, Contemporary Typography, New Laboratory Press, 1961
And the same booklet with Jack Stauffacher’s custom dust jacket from his personal library. (Stauffacher established the New Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)
More of Jack’s jackets: https://letterformarchive.org/news/jack-stauffacher-studio/#jackets
#JackStauffacher #BookJackets #BookCovers #JanTschichold #Typography
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Jacket for The First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes, pictures by Cliff Roberts, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1955.
#LetterformArchive #LangstonHughes #CliffRoberts #JazzMusic #Lettering #BookJackets #BookCovers
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Two mid-60s editions of early sci-fi novels involving human-alien love arcs: one (left) between a human man and an alien female, the other (right) between an alien male and a human woman. A six-armed lover could have advantages #scifi #paperbacks #bookjackets
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Well-loved Agatha Christie paperbacks from the 70s. I like the pearls and gun theme on the Dell covers. Wonder if that’s consistent through all their Christie titles. #bookjackets #mysteries
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Is he a man or a horse? Who cares? He’s 100% stud. #bookjackets @bookstodon
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A tagline about saving the world + a giant beatific sky otter + a sci-fi typeface + a man in a cowboy hat = a winning combination. This 1973 novel is about two people and an otter on an alien planet hauling an 1,100 pound sculpture (made by the otter) across the wilderness to sell to an alien buyer. Are those glowing mushrooms on the horizon? Mushrooms may have been involved in dreaming up the plot. 1978 paperback edition. #scifiart #scifi #otters #bookjackets #coverart