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Sometime design needs to be nothing more that just beautiful. These five Penguin book covers by Hans Schmoller in 1951, hit the spot. They follow styling created by Jan Tschichold post his years promoting the virtues of modernist typography.
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Yes Mike you are totally right! David Pearson former designer @ Penguin was probably inspired by Tschichold and created a similar collection a few yrs back. I love book design it's really fun :) x marea
Posted by: Marea Saldarriaga | October 10, 2011 at 01:26 AM
I've got a couple of those Mike. Beautiful work. Perfect. Seeing them here has brightened up my morning.
Posted by: Richard | October 12, 2011 at 09:15 AM
Hello Richard - Glad to cheer you up. Look out for my next post which you might find interesting.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Dempsey | October 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM