Verso is one of our favorite clients. They’re thoughtful and open to experiment, and if something’s not working they’ve got useful advice. It makes for a good relationship, even if some covers we design get killed. (Others are part of a larger series we show elsewhere.) Those shown on this page are the rest.
Boris Groys' The Communist Postscript. Not an easy cover to photograph.
Bruno Bosteels' The Actuality of Communism. For a number of reasons, the square is a shape we return to repeatedly when designing Verso covers. Here we played off the square's "actual" manifestation, the cube.
Alain Badiou's Pocket Pantheon, in which Badiou writes on a number of heavyweights from the canon of 20th century philosophy, some of whom are drawn on the cover.
For Marshall Berman's The Politics of Authenticity, we composed the type from a number of overlaying scraps of paper.
Detail of the cover shown prior.