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Design Category
Book design, 2004
Design firm
Chip Kidd Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(2005) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2004
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This is basically the first assignment everyone gets in Typography 101 (or at least the one I got): “Give a piece of typography appropriate form based on its content.” Very simple. Since it’s a book about engineering, I included a graph-paper pattern to enhance the effect. I like best that it looks like a boil longing to be lanced.