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Design Category
Book design, 2000
Design firm
Beacon Press (Boston, Massachusetts)
Collection
(2001) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2000
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This massive book is a compilation of new essays, excerpted texts from letters and novels, Nabokov’s lepidopteral findings and various images. A definite challenge was the quantity of different types of texts: lists, letters, doodles and essays; color images, black-and-white photos, captions and poems; scientific graphs, charts and illustrations. It all had to flow smoothly in a coherent, readable and comfortable text without appearing overwhelming. In the end, I had a pile of manuscript bits and pieces about four feet high in my studio. I am pleased I was allowed to keep the generous margins, which were designed to accommodate photos and captions; for many pages, however, they are simply empty, generous and spacious.