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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Beacon Press (Boston, Massachusetts)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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The Unknown City is a scholarly book about the forgotten generation of working-class urban America. The design nearly fizzled when Elizabeth had to switch photographs mid-job because of permission difficulties. She managed to find another with exactly the same fissure to accommodate the type and still succeed thematically. For a nanosecond, editorial felt that the new photo looked too much like Wall Street; fortunately, good design prevailed. The typography has this amazing interaction with the photo. If the title were in Russian, you would still get it.