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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. Knitting Rules. Massachusetts: Storey Publishing, 2006. Design by Mary Velgos and others. Illustrations by Diana Marye Huff. Collected June 14

Knitting Rules is a book of knitting tips and knitting humour in a fairly ordinary paperback with a fairly flimsy glossy cover and a standard white book stock. I don't really like the cover, but it's pretty to the point: a woman, (the author, who is a well-known knitter and author)knitting and dropping a ball of wool, with quirky typography and an exclamation mark. It might not be the world's greatest design, but it gets the job done. However, unusually, the book was printed in a maroon ink rather than in black. The first time I took notes on this book I found the entire concept so offensive that I fairly trashed it! However, on review, I don't feel quite so strongly. (For some reason, this text mostly scanned as black and white - take my word for it, it's maroon.)
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Ed. Michael Hoskin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Design by Stuart Macready and various others. Collected 30 July

Apologies for the scans for this one, guys, it's a big heavy book and difficult to get on the glass. Hardback, gloss laminated pages, four colours throughout.( read more )

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Dieter Bachman & Daniel Schwartz. So Many Worlds: A Photographic Record of Our Time. London: Thames and Hudson, 1996. Design by Adam Hay. Collected July 29 30

With this deceptively simple book, it's all about yellow! ( read more )

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Rowan Bishop & Sue Carruthers. The Vegetarian Adventure Cook Book: Menus from Home and Abroad. Lower Hutt: Mills Publications, 1988. No design info. Collected 30 July.

I sat down to trash this design, but I found that it had really grown on me. What I like about it is that it has a really distinct sense of the time it was written, while still being legible, useful, and even attractive twenty years later. (Also, remember when a cookbook cost $20?) Paperback. ( read more )

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Michael Haag. Cadogan Guide to Egypt. London: Cadogan Books, 1993. Illustrations by Sophie Morrish. Design by Animage. Cover illustration by Povl Webb, cover design by Ralph King. Collected 28 July

Floppy cover, very thin stock but laminated stock - this is a guidebook densely crammed with information and designed to be lugged round with minimum effort and maximum efficiency. Design-wise, where to start with this book? Like Soon I Will Be Invincible, the Cadogan Guide to Egypt is characterised by a holistic design sensibility. Unfortunately - especially since the book itself is great and, I am assured, useful - this design is not so good! I seized on it the moment Elaine brought it out for indexing practice.

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Knitting Rules!

Astronomy: Cambridge Illustrated History

So Many Worlds (giant yellow book tyvm!)

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