Pelican book covers from the 1970s.
The always-fascinating Things Magazine has posted the Pelican Project, a visual archive of Pelican paperbacks from the 1930s to the 80s. Breathe in the stark clarity of geometric layouts, Helvetica variations, and ample white space.
The designs are definitely "from an era," but that era was also really interesting, a time when brainy little monographs flew off the shelves at independent bookstores, when information was shared and consumed en masse via organic materials, pressed vegetation, before we turned our economy over to the pixel and set fire to the past.
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