I'll let you into a secret (Noisy Decent Graphics)

Aug 08, 2011

I'll let you into a secret

I hate book jackets. Cumbersome, useless, unnecessary. The first thing I do when I get a hardback book is throw the book jacket away.

So it was nice to find a pub the other day where every single book jacket had been removed.

8 Aug 2011 15:04:14 | Examples of Bad Communication

3 Comments

I concur.

I've had heated debates with people about this very thing. I removed a particularly horrible one off Stephen Fry's book 'The Stars' Tennis Balls'. When I took it to the local second hand bookshop I was told that he couldn't credit me anything for the book because there was no book jacket.

Posted by: Logospotter | Aug 08, 2011 at 15:14

I haven't resorted to chucking the jackets away, but I do love peeking under them. I particularly dislike the irregular jackets that Chip Kidd seems to wrap around everything these days. They look nice, but are completely impractical, and get torn top shreds upon shelving/unshelving.

Posted by: Gray | Aug 09, 2011 at 13:30

A post about book jackets:
http://www.dubdog.co.uk/2011/11/underneath-cover.html

Posted by: Nigel Ball | Nov 26, 2011 at 10:23

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Noisy Decent Graphics

Written by Ben Terrett, a designer in London. This blog is about graphic design and the things I stumble upon in my life as a designer. More details about me down there on the right underneath the picture.

Aug 08, 2011