Front cover : great book jackets and cover design / Alan Powers.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Mitchell Beazley, 2001Description: 144 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 1840004215Subject(s): Book jackets -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Book covers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Book jackets -- History -- 20th century | Book covers -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 741.640 POW LOC classification: NC1883.G7 | P68 2001Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Marium Abdulla Library Non-Ref | Communication Design | 741.640 POW (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 21466 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139) and index.
The evolution of the book jacket -- The impact of Modernism : the 1920s and 1930s -- The modernist jacket -- Designing in monochrome -- Graphic innovation -- Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious -- Victor Gollancz -- Classic novels -- Strange and surreal -- Barnett Freedman -- Penguin : the creation of a brand -- Early paperback series -- Colour and printing -- The author as artist -- Dutch graphic design -- The creation of style : the 1940s to the 1960s -- Lettering -- Edward McKnight Kauffer -- European writers -- Bond novels -- Science fiction -- Alvin Lustig -- Through the keyhole -- American classic novels -- Penguin and the paperback -- Kitchen-sink novels -- Discreetly scandalous : Lolita -- The pulp fiction jacket -- American graphic artists -- The American thriller -- The beat generation -- Playing with typography -- British classic novels -- A revolution in print : the 1960s and 1970s -- Psychedelia -- Exploring the erotic -- Len Deighton -- Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar -- Paul Rand -- The British crime novel -- The paperback explosion : Penguin -- The paperback explosion : other publishers -- Cold War paranoia -- The times they are a-changin' -- Poetry -- Classic novels -- Counter culture -- Agatha Christie -- Design in the digital age : the 1980s and 1990s -- Faber and Faber -- Picador -- Harvill Press -- Bloomsbury -- The postmodern novel -- Penguin : new designs -- Pocket canons -- Black Sparrow Press -- Andrzej Klimowski -- Granta -- Jeff Fisher -- Indigo -- Rebel Inc -- Grove Atlantic.
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