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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Evan Gaffney Graphic Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997

Description

The Ibis Tapestry is an intense and abstract thriller chronicling a bored writer’s accidental murder investigation of a troubled arms dealer plagued by horrific dreams of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great (and that’s the simple version).

Credits
Art director: Carol Carson
Graphic designer: Evan Gaffney
Photographers: Kate Swan, Jason Beaupré
Author: Mike Nichol
Typeface: Sackers Square Gothic
Publisher/client: Alfred A. Knopf