Pl. 10
Editorial
Slow Press
A series of eight book covers for a small press’s reissued classics.
Client
Slow Press, Bath
Role
Book covers, series design
Year
2022
Discipline
Editorial
N° 01 — The brief
Eight out-of-print novels reissued as a set, on a budget that allowed one colour per cover.
N° 02 — The approach
A strict typographic system: title, author and a single pattern made from one letter of the title. Printed in one Pantone colour each on uncoated board.
N° 03 — The outcome
The set sold out its first printing in four months and is now in its third.
The set of eight
Cover detail
Spines
Pattern system
Endpapers
Bookshop table
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The covers made the books collectable again.
Martin Hale, publisher
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