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Design Category
Book design, 2001
Design firm
Doubleday (New York, New York)
Collection
(2002) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2001
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I was approached with the problem of designing a jacket for a noir thriller, that wasn’t supposed to look like a noir thriller. I chose strong title typeface, Trade Gothic, to illustrate the title’s image, rather than creating a separate and literal illustrative translation of the title—since all that needed to be “seen” was in the words of the title itself: disappearing.