Close-up of cover
AIGA Design Archives, 50 Books/50 Covers of 2007
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Designer: Peter Mendelsund
Font: Walbaum
I love how the black shapes draw your eye in to the type. The small font size enhances the concept of depth. And the title completely explains the image. At first, I thought this was just some abstract art but when you get pulled in to read the small font, there's an "aha!" moment when it becomes so obvious what you're looking at. The hint of the cloud is subtle enough to add interest and isn't really noticeable until you look again the second time.
The font is very "plain" - no pun intended. The font quietly announces the title but in a very dramatic way. The whole image seems to recall the enormity of the disaster.
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This image says so much with so little. It is an abstract, minimal, vertically symmetrical composition; it is the towers from a worms eye point of view; and it is also two menacing forms converging on and about to collide into the small central type. I always remember how perfectly blue and cloudless the sky was that day.
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