Books by Joseph Connolly
Eighty Years of Book Cover Design
by Joseph Connolly
The cliché that you can’t judge a book by its cover is wrong. You clearly can and all you need is a book of cover jackets to prove the nonsense of that phrase. Faber jackets have traditionally been very beautiful things because they’ve used a mixture of very good typographers and artists, as you see throughout this book, which itself has a beautiful jacket – a traditional Faber jacket but twice as big.
Interviews where books by Joseph Connolly were recommended
The best books on Typefaces, recommended by Simon Garfield
It used to be said that you could be parachuted into any country and know where you were from the typeface used on its road signs. The author of Just My Type tells us about the variety and meaning of different fonts.
