Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers
Headless Males Make Good Lovers

Headless Males Make Good Lovers

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2005

Description

The book is a collection of stories about bizarre animal behaviors. I hoped to match the lively and engaging style of the narrative in the design. A challenge with this project was finding the best way to weave the many charming illustrations into the author’s text. I was glad to have a fine typesetter composing these pages.

Juror Notes

Another stellar example in the category of maximum effect with a minimum of means. With black text only and small line illustrations, the designers had to do everything right here—primarily the details of the page typography—to make the book stand out, and they did. The cover, with its almost rubber-stamp aesthetic, is playful and engaging (ditto the book’s title), and the whole project is a winning, almost winsome, package that more books of this type should aspire to.

Collections: 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2005
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Design firm
University of Chicago Press
Creative director
Jill Shimabukuro
Designer
Matt Avery
Jacket designer
Matt Avery
Illustrator
Alan Crump
Production director
Sylvia Hecimovich
Production coordinator
Phyllis Kingsland
Author
Marty Crump
Editor
Christie Henry
Trim size
6 x 9 inches
Pages
216
Quantity printed
3,000
Compositor
G&S Typesetters, Inc.
Typefaces
Vendetta, Clarendon
Printer/binder
Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Jacket printer
Phoenix Color
Paper
50 lb. Nature’s Natural, 440 ppi
Binding method
Smyth sewn
Publisher/client
University of Chicago Press
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