Behind the cover of 'An Object of Beauty'
JA
January 25
Designer Darren Booth has written a great little post on the making of An Object of Beauty (the latest from actor-author-comedian-at-large Steve Martin), which nicely combines my dual obsessions of excellent covers and excellent typography.
[T]here were basically two directions that I refined. The first one, a clean and bold direction inspired a bit by Ed Ruscha … From the start of the project, I aimed for it to be on a solid white background to ensure it would stand out against other covers. The other direction is more script-like and now that I’m looking at it, I don’t know what I was thinking because it’s not very sophisticated at all. Since imperfections help make things unique and beautiful, I felt it was important that the final lettering contained imperfections, ie: the R and N in Martin. The T in Object is slightly off kilter, etc… For the end papers, the only direction I received was to create something inspired by Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting.
More photos here.
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