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July 17th, 2008
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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Woah, coincidence - I have that copy of Seneca right next to keyboard, having pulled it off the shelf a couple of days ago.
It's a beautiful design. I am a big fan of the Stoics but I haven't read that yet.
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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