Tray StoneDec 11, 2024
These came out of the creative kitchen like a warm plate of chocolate chip cookies 🍪. I used my paintings to illustrate the titles or changed the titles to fit the illustrations. I also used a Penguin Classic Cover Generator to produce these faux Penguins. #bookjackets #bookcovers
Show threadFonts In UseAug 15, 2024

The article includes a selection of jacket designs that hint at Ursula Suess’s wide range of lettering styles: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/62531/as-we-are-now-book-jacket#comment-887351
Note that these are all custom-drawn letterforms, not fonts in use.

#UrsulaSuess #lettering #BookJackets

As We Are Now book jacket

A homage to Ursula Suess on the occasion of her 100th birthday

Fonts in Use
Fonts In UseAug 14, 2024

New on the Blog:
A homage to Ursula Suess on the occasion of her 100th birthday:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/62531/as-we-are-now-book-jacket

The German-American artist designed many book jackets for publishers in NYC. In 1971/72, she created a typeface derived from her lettering, named Book Jacket.

@fhardwig shows examples of Book Jacket in use, including two by the designer herself.

#UrsulaSuess #BookJackets #FontsInUse #fonts #typography

As We Are Now book jacket

A homage to Ursula Suess on the occasion of her 100th birthday

Fonts in Use
Letterform ArchiveOct 31, 2023

Jan Tchichold, Contemporary Typography, New Laboratory Press, 1961

And the same booklet with Jack Stauffacher’s custom dust jacket from his personal library. (Stauffacher established the New Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)

More of Jack’s jackets: https://letterformarchive.org/news/jack-stauffacher-studio/#jackets

#JackStauffacher #BookJackets #BookCovers #JanTschichold #Typography

This Just In: Jack Stauffacher’s Studio - Letterform Archive

For over 50 years, Stauffacher lived a singular life at the heart of San Francisco’s creative community. Now, his legacy lives on at the Archive, and his prints are the subject of our third book.

Letterform Archive
Letterform ArchiveOct 26, 2023

Jacket for The First Book of Jazz by Langston Hughes, pictures by Cliff Roberts, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1955.

#LetterformArchive #LangstonHughes #CliffRoberts #JazzMusic #Lettering #BookJackets #BookCovers

BookJacketJackpotJul 15, 2023
Two mid-60s editions of early sci-fi novels involving human-alien love arcs: one (left) between a human man and an alien female, the other (right) between an alien male and a human woman. A six-armed lover could have advantages #scifi #paperbacks #bookjackets
BookJacketJackpotJun 23, 2023
Well-loved Agatha Christie paperbacks from the 70s. I like the pearls and gun theme on the Dell covers. Wonder if that’s consistent through all their Christie titles. #bookjackets #mysteries
BookJacketJackpotJun 7, 2023
Is he a man or a horse? Who cares? He’s 100% stud. #bookjackets @bookstodon
BookJacketJackpotDec 23, 2022
A tagline about saving the world + a giant beatific sky otter + a sci-fi typeface + a man in a cowboy hat = a winning combination. This 1973 novel is about two people and an otter on an alien planet hauling an 1,100 pound sculpture (made by the otter) across the wilderness to sell to an alien buyer. Are those glowing mushrooms on the horizon? Mushrooms may have been involved in dreaming up the plot. 1978 paperback edition. #scifiart #scifi #otters #bookjackets #coverart