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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Kathleen DiGrado Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997

Description

To quote the author, “The reader is invited to hold this book, see it for what it appears to be, and then remove its surface layer to discover it is something else. This is exactly what the book is intended to do for its subject.”

Credits
Art director: Marjorie Anderson
Graphic designer: Kathleen DiGrado
Author: Patrick Smith
Typeface: Hanseatic (Swiss 924)
Printer: Coral Graphic Services, Inc.
Publisher: Pantheon Books