A Handbook for Drowning jacket
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The jacket cover design made by Alfred A. Knopf Inc's Barbara de Wilde, Chip Kidd and David Barry for David Shields' collection of stories, 'A Handbook for Drowning,' won a gold award in the packaging category of the 1992 I.D. Annual Design Review. The jacket cover features a photograph of a man hovering over water, the two elements arraged in a manner that leaves the viewer unsure as to whether the man is entering or leaving the water. The ambiguity of the image prefigures the disturbing nature nature of the book.
Publication Name: I.D.
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0894-5373
Year: 1992
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Series design for Everyman's Library
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The cover and title page designs for 'Everyman's Library' literary classics series made by Alfred A. Knopf Inc's Barbara de Wilde and Carol Carson won a gold award in the packaging category of the 1992 I.D. Annual Design Review. In keeping with the tradition of the literary works contained in each book, the designers took the traditions of classical bookbinding, and reworked them into a design that was modern and timeless at the same time.
Publication Name: I.D.
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0894-5373
Year: 1992
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Asya jacket cover
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The jacket design made by graphic designer Archie Ferguson and photographer Diana Klein for Michael Ignatieff's novel Asya won a gold award in the packaging category of the 1992 I.D. Annual Design Review. The jacket cover features a photograph of a woman's face. The title is in hand-lettered type and positioned in front of the face, contributing to the overall mysterious aura of the jacket cover.
Publication Name: I.D.
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0894-5373
Year: 1992
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