The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Feb 3rd, 2024. Artwork published in
September 1975
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A spectacular jacket design for the first British edition of The Forever War, published in fall 1975 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Designer Nick Sutton started with Tony Wenman’s Buster, a 1972 Letraset face with perspective caps. He inverted the shadow-only glyphs, gave them dimensional bodies, and rotated them by about 55 degrees to the left. Now they seem to float in space; an illusion that is intensified by the big overlapping “WAR” letters (backwards rotalics!) and the implied stars in the speckled background.
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The spine lettering is in all-caps Grotesque No. 9.
4 Comments on “The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)”
See also the earlier first US edition by St. Martin’s Press and Orbit’s 1976 paperback edition:
Here’s some more backslanted rotalics:
This is amazing!!! What a transformative use of Buster! Love this.
'Zit not the slightest bit of interest that Buster clearly used Grotesque as an inspiration?