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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Art director
Rob Weisbach
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998

Description

The Polaroid refers to a box of seedy images kept in a shoebox under the bed of the main character of this provocative novel. I was asked to make the sexiest book jacket possible and was forced to use the least sexy of all the photos commissioned. I guess sex doesn’t sell.

Credits
Designers: Michael Ian Kaye, Rob Weisbach
Photographer: Jack Louth
Typeface: Distressed Helvetica
Printer: Coral Graphics
Paper: 100# Whitesheet C/1/S
Author: Ben Neihart
Publisher: Rob Weisbach Books, William Morrow and Company