Backstory
Penguin Group, New York, New York, 2003
Description
The book is a collection of the author’s work as media correspondent for the New Yorker. The brief was: “It’s a big book, Jon, please don’t mess it up.”
I liked the idea of creating an icon from newsprint and after several failed attempts at folding the Lady Liberty (she looked more like Hitler in a spiked wig) I hit upon the eagle idea.
After weeks of further painful finger-breaking research into the dark arts of origami, I realized that the camera always lies. The model is constructed from about 12 different bits of paper bodged together with adhesive tape.
Juror Notes
“Innovative use of illustration to create a multilayered visual experience. Both fresh and historically referential.” Archie Ferguson
“I feel this successfully conveys the content. Eye-catching and intelligent.” Isabel Warren-Lynch
Credits
- Design firm
- Penguin Group
- Creative director
- Paul Buckley
- Art director
- Darren Haggar
- Designer
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- Jacket designer
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- Illustrator
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- Photographer
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- Production director
- Bill Peabody
- Author
- Ken Auletta
- Editor
- Scott Moyers
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Trim size
- 6.125 x 9.25”
- Typefaces
- Baskerville, Birch
- Jacket printer
- Phoenix Color Corp.
- Book type
- Literature and nonfiction