The Devil’s Larder
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 2001
Description
The challenge in designing books is always the same for me: exercising restraint in my text layout to allow the author’s words to emerge without sacrificing overall design “oomph.” My choice of ornamentation reflected the “devil’s appetite” theme of the 64 short fictions. With a limited budget, I worked closely with my production manager to juggle costs, thus enabling us to afford a second color for the first signature and colorfully printed endpapers. My favorite design element is the naughty red “s” in the title.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 2001
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book
Credits
- Design firm
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Designer
- Susan Mitchell
- Cover art
- “The Vegetable Gardener” by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Production coordinator
- Peter Richardson
- Trim size
- 5 x 7 1/2 inches
- Pages
- 176
- Quantity printed
- 19,000
- Compositor
- Stratford Printing Services
- Typefaces
- Berthold Script, First Grader, Granjon, Kuenstler Script, Rococo Ornaments #1
- Printer
- RR Donnelley
- Paper
- Glatfelter B-18 Cream 55 lb. text
- Binding method
- Notch binding
- Jacket printer
- Phoenix Color Corp.
- Author
- Jim Crace
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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