Political Book Design

Ran across this last night while surfing events surrounding the presidential debate:

I’m posting it this morning because it occurs to me that few of the political titles fit within the “great design” mantra. After all, politics and the politicians themselves offer so many ideas for thoughtful, clever, dirty, or sad design, even when it’s regarding just the president. (Whomever that might be — Cheney Bush, Nixon, Clinton, even JFK.)

Further, it seems as it’s almost always a powerful image with a title overlay of some fashion. Problem is, it’s rare to be surprised by the image or impressed with the design. Given the season, anyone want to point to some of their favorite political and presidential title designs?

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Posted by Giles, Saturday, October 9, 2004, at 11:42 AM.
Posted to Book design

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Well, I just finished one — it got fairly watered-down during development because of lawsuit concerns.

Crossing the Rubicon

A punishing schedule, with three weeks from contract to off-the-press, and 696 pages… good thing I only had to do the cover!

I thought this one was clever:
Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents

Diane , October 9, 2004 2:49 PM (#)

America the Broke

A well crafted and concepted cover by “Keenan” who is this guy? Seen some good covers by him/her lately…

J.P. , October 11, 2004 7:34 PM (#)

I find that a lot of the titles from The New Press jump out at me, e.g. this one.

Joe , October 12, 2004 10:03 AM (#)

New Press covers are always great. Another example.

Isaac , October 12, 2004 7:24 PM (#)

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