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Design Category
Book design, 1996
Design firm
Studio A (San Francisco, California)
Collection
(1997) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1996

Description

Our goal in designing this cover was to illustrate the three basic categories of Indian textiles: painted and block printed, roller printed, and woven. The typography was chosen to refer to the craft and lyricism woven into these fabrics.

Credits
Creative director: Sarah Bolles
Jacket designers: Sarah Bolles, Jana Anderson
Author: Kokyo Hatanaka
Typeface: Garamond
Publisher/client: Chronicle Books