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July 17th, 2008

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03:59 pm - Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us
I think you'll like the cover designs for the Penguin Great Ideas series. A range of texts all of which are 'must-reads'. The covers combine lovely typography, beautiful design, and excellent choice of quotes from each text.

Series 1
Series 2
Series 3

My heading is from Thomas Browne's Urn Burial (full text here) That's a lovely quote but one of the least successful designs. Most of the others are a lot more elegant, eg. Darwin, Nietzsche, Woolf.

(Nabbed from the side-bar at Making Light)

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From:[info]altariel
Date:July 17th, 2008 03:04 pm (UTC)
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Woah, coincidence - I have that copy of Seneca right next to keyboard, having pulled it off the shelf a couple of days ago.
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From:[info]communicator
Date:July 17th, 2008 03:14 pm (UTC)
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It's a beautiful design. I am a big fan of the Stoics but I haven't read that yet.
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From:[info]iainjclark
Date:July 18th, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC)
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Those are really pretty. Some are a tiny bit unclear as to the title of the work, but the design is so beautiful I don't care!

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