Lucky Last: Wolf Hall
Aug. 2nd, 2010 01:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdhead Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall. London: Fourth Estate, 2009. No designer information available, but typeset by G&S Designs. Collected 30 June To finish off, I wanted to remind myself that book design doesn't have to be, and probably shouldn't be, eyecatching, dramatic, innovative or even visible to be good book design. I thought going through this book, a large trade paperback (very thin glossy card, uncoated book paper stock) from 2009, would be a pretty good opportunity to demonstrate that. Even though I've praised books with complicated design, that can go wrong more often than it goes right. ( read more ) |
