On the Shortness of Life, Penguin Great Ideas Contributed by Stéphane Darricau on Jan 21st, 2024. Artwork published in 2004. Source: www.penguin.com.au ©Penguin Random House. License: All Rights Reserved. “There was no way I was going to use Trajan”, Phil Baines once said of this cover design for the first “Penguin Great Ideas” series. He went for URW Grotesk instead. So very him. Phil Baines passed away last Friday, January 19th, 2024. RIP. Typefaces More about URW GroteskGet URW Grotesk Formats Books (6742) Topics Literature (3125) Designers/Agencies Phil Baines (5) Tagged withPenguin Books (87)Penguin Great Ideas (6)Seneca (1)paperbacks/softcovers (2056)book covers (6055)all caps (7930)outlined type (1289)one typeface, one size (416)only type (1303)embossed/debossed (652)two-color (1039)red and black (1160)Penguin Classics (10) Artwork location United Kingdom (3366) London (1861) Post a comment Name Email – will not be published Website Your response Submit Comment More URW Grotesk in use 15 Years Villa Aurora Catalogue2010Pauline AltmannContributed by Pauline Altmann Staff Pick Lettres libres book interiors2020Jolin MassonContributed by Jolin Masson Lettres Libres collection, Lux Éditeur2014Nouvelle AdministrationJolin MassonCatherine D’AmoursContributed by Jolin Masson Staff Pick Sponsor More in Literature The Black Stallion by Walter Farley1977unknownContributed by cassandra chambliss Staff Pick Gothic Violence by Mike Mac. 2021Mike MaContributed by Solid Snake Sin Doll by Orrie Hitt (Beacon Books, 1963)1963Contributed by Jeff Vorzimmer Crumbs Journal Nº I2019Ayse SismanogluMiza Ahmad Qadir FirdausContributed by Ayse Sismanoglu More in Books The Book of Yōkai by Michael Dylan Foster2024Kevin Barrett KaneContributed by Kevin Barrett Kane The Case of the Marsden Rubies by Leonard R. Gribble1930EContributed by Florian Hardwig A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir (Warner, 1977)1977M. HounerContributed by Florian Hardwig Staff Pick The Twilight of Briareus by Richard Cowper, Gollancz1974unknownContributed by Florian Hardwig More Fonts In Use Action Force figures by Palitoyc. 1982unknownContributed by William Kenny Staff Pick ballesterer magazine and podcast #175, Nov. 20222022LWZManuel RaddeContributed by tobias schererbauer Staff Pick “Fastest Night” event by Nike2017Rosie LeeNikeGoldenContributed by Gareth Hague Staff Pick Solomiya magazine, Nº 12022Sebastian WellsVsevolod KazarinKollektiv ScrollanContributed by Ivo Gabrowitsch Staff Pick