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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Columbia University Press (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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The target audience for this book is the general reader, one familiar with Umberto Eco and interested in a slim volume exploring the benefits resultant of misunderstandings. The designer explored, visually, the nature of surfaces as a vehicle for understanding. By laying the title over itself, she created a surrealist sense of a shadow not relating to the image that is casting it. An idea of beauty through confusion which seems to address Eco’s basic argument.