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On the Shortness of Life, Penguin Great Ideas

Contributed by Stéphane Darricau on Jan 21st, 2024. Artwork published in .
On the Shortness of Life, Penguin Great Ideas
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.

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