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Design Category
Book design, 2004
Art director
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Collection
(2005) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2004
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The challenge was to design the new book by Francine Prose, whose last book of fiction was nominated for the National Book Award. The approach was to re-create a “Big Book” look, without its stodginess.
The book narrates the story of a young neo-Nazi, with Waffen SS tattoos under his shirt sleeves, who turns his life around by going to work for a human-rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor. The tattoos are the only physical link between these two strangers. On the jacket, blackletter and typographic ornaments were superimposed on a photo to create these tattoos.