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Design Category
Book design, 2006
Design firm
Alfred A. Knopf (New York, New York)
Collection
(2007) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2006

Credits
Art director: Archie Ferguson
Designer: Peter Mendelsund
Jacket designer: Peter Mendelsund
Production director: Andy Hughes
Production coordinator: Romeo Enriquez
Author: Franz Kafka
Editor: Carol Brown Janeway
Publisher/client: Schocken Books
Juror Notes

“A surprise cover within a cover. A near-brilliant concept for a book on a book. Makes you want to read it—and that’s the point of book-cover design, isn’t it?”