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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Lisa Billard Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first English publication of The Communist Manifesto, a new introduction was commissioned and the twenty-three-page pamphlet was reissued as an upscale edition. With Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid’s The Red Flag painting on the new cover, the Manifesto, according to Verso’s plan, is being “self-consciously marketed toward sybarites.” The sophistication achieved by the simplicity of image and typography makes the topic more accessible to an audience generally unaccustomed to reading political works.