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Nabokov Specimen Box Project

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libraryland:

jasonpermenter:

So. Let me show you something I happen to love. John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, had this daunting idea to reinvent Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers (all twenty-one). As Nabokov was a famously passionate collector of butterflies, Gall went for that theme, quite successfully, with a little help from some friends. He explains his plan over at Design Observer:

Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects. Each box would be filled with paper, ephemera, and insect pins, selected to somehow evoke the book’s content.And to make it more interesting for readers — and less daunting for me — I thought it would be fun to ask a group of talented designers to help create the boxes.

Here’s who I asked: Chip Kidd, Carol Carson, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah, Rodrigo Corral, Martin Venezky, Charles Wilkin, Helen Yentus and Jason Booher, Peter Mendelsund, Sam Potts, Dave Eggers, Paul Sahre, Stephen Doyle, Carin Goldberg, Michael Bierut, Barbara de Wilde, and Marian Bantjes.

Please, please go take a gander at the entire slide show. My favorite? The Luzhin Defense, as designed by Paul Sahre.

So nice. All of them just so, so nice.