This is the book jacket cover, designed by Peter Mendelsund, for the book Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam. The typeface is Baskerville, which is a transitional serif font. The book is a collection of short stories that follow the same post-apocalyptic timeline. Reviews have said that it is wonderfully subtle and humanistic science fiction. This makes the jacket cover so well designed. By "wrapping" the text around the spine to simulate the future gaining on the present without the present's knowledge, the cover artfully conveys the nature of the book. This is not a book that has aliens dropping out of the sky, but neither is it unexciting. This is what good type design is. Something that is so simple, yet still conveys so much meaning is an inspiration to me going forward in this program.
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