"Some of my favourite covers this year were series designs. I loved the Julio Cortázar Vintage Classics editions with covers illustrated by Stephen Smith, AKA Neasden Control Centre. I was lucky enough to meet art director Suzanne Dean for coffee when she visited Toronto this summer, which was lovely. Her Haruki Murakami designs for Vintage Classics and Harvill are always a delight too."
"The typographic covers for the 'Penguin Archive' designed by Jim Stoddart triggered my curiosity. Published in April to celebrate 90 years of Penguin Books, the designs use typography to evoke the different eras of the publisher. You can read more about the series and the design process at Creative Review. But which historic Penguin covers inspired type choices in the first place?"
"There was some really nice series design from independent publishers this year too. I really liked Luísa Dias's covers for Wild Hunt Books' Northern Weird Project. I wanted to feature them here when the final book of the series, by Katherine Clements, came out last month, but time was not on my side. Fortunately, Zachary Petit talked to Luísa about the series for PRINT in April."
Series cover design featured prominently across major and independent publishers, emphasizing both illustration and typographic approaches. Stephen Smith (Neasden Control Centre) illustrated Julio Cortázar Vintage Classics, while Suzanne Dean shaped Haruki Murakami editions for Vintage Classics and Harvill. Jim Stoddart's Penguin Archive covers used typography to evoke different publisher eras for Penguin's 90th anniversary. Independent efforts included Luísa Dias's Wild Hunt Books' Northern Weird Project and Matt Dorfman's loop- and repetition-driven New Directions covers for Solvej Balle's septology. Designers Anna Morrison, Jaya Nicely, and Jenny Volvovski produced bold, inventive, and economical small-press designs.
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