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Notes from the Rough Front
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Alberto Hernandez
Spanish designer Alberto Hernandez has just recently finished his MA in Graphic Design at London College of Communication. His obsession is hybrid novels, a book where written text and graphic devices such as illustration, photography, information graphics or typographic treatments add interactiveness. You can also give the pages multidimensional visual surfaces, a bit like what you can see in the pictures here….Read more
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Alberto Hernandez | OEN
From time to time, I do read books from other houses. Be it on my Nook or in Trade paper back. But I have to point out, though, that if you get the hardcover version of the book, the dust jacket glows in the dark — something you won’t find on your ebook device. In addition, it’s fun read.
(via Penguin Drop Caps - Penguin Classics - Because what you read matters. - Penguin Group (USA))
A great gift gift for the production elf in your life
The author was similarly involved in the development of his latest feat of formatting, The Fifty Year Sword, a ghost story for adults. There are two pulp versions: the deluxe limited edition, specially stitched in Nepal and housed in a handsome box, and the standard edition, a beautiful object in its own right. Pantheon—an imprint of the design-conscious publisher Alfred A. Knopf—demonstrated a similar commitment to craftsmanship with the enhanced e-book edition of The Fifty Year Sword, a key project in the division’s strategic development plan and a category changer in the realm of digitized adult fiction.
Printed image on a mustard cloth case from 1925. So pretty!
(Source: leritas, via books-for-lunch)
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A font that will never be found in a Knopf book!
(via betype)
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
So Comic Sans walks into a bar…
and the bartenders says,”Hey, we don’t serve your type here.”
Yes, I like bad typography jokes too…
