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Design Category
Book design, 2000
Design firm
doubleu-gee (Petaluma, California)
Collection
(2001) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2000
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We wanted to create a beautiful book to sit within the Rumi gift box. Using traditional Islamic pattern design elements as our source, we drew icons and created a sun for the book cover as well as the box cover. Roman capitals circle the sun against a regal purple inset in midnight blue, lending a ruglike simplicity to the flat colors. The two-color interior of rust and dark blue on uncoated stock presents a rich, tactile feel.