Penguin Collectors' Society - Penguin by Designers

            Penguin by Designers
Penguin Collectors' Society, 2007
Cover Design: David Pearson

Romek Marber was invited in 1961 to do two trial covers for Pelican books. He submitted quite different designs.

Their strong geometry foresaw his proportional ‘grid’; the manipulation of photographic images was repeated in many later pieces of his artwork.

Soon after, Marber was asked to propose a unifying ‘look’ for Penguin crime fiction. The resulting ‘Marber Grid’ helped the imprint signify the quality of the contents, maximised the space available for artwork and, with the Swiss clarity of the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface, put Penguin, and Marber, into the vogue of sixties style.

Other designers provided some artwork, but Marber himself produced it for roundly a hundred covers. His rigorous division of space was adapted for other Penguin series, and even when the grid itself disappeared, its shape still showed through in the cover layout of many Penguin books.

Taken on: April 11, 2012

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