Glad the last post was a biggy because this week is proving to be a slow blog week due to pressure from work (late nights etc). Perhaps a good time to put up a couple of random Penguins.
Not sure if either fit into any series but I think both show exceptional layouts.
He and She is by Bruce Robertson (seen here sporting a fine, William Morris-style beard) who designed many brilliant covers for Penguin's non-fiction sister brand Pelican (which is a rich source of currently loft-based blog stuff yet to be tapped). Robertson was a co-founder of the Diagram Group and, as you will see (one day) from his Pelican covers, was a bit of a pioneer of information graphics. He really did do some ground-breaking stuff and without doubt could knock up a good diagram, unfortunately the Group's current output, while very informative I'm sure, are less than stylish publications. He also wrote this.
I think this cover design is ace. It's so up. All that grass! And the old focal point picked out in black and white trick, which was relatively new in the 60's probably.
Nasser's Egypt isn't credited but reminds me of The Stagnant Society by Richard Hollis, so perhaps there's a link. Great, low position for the photo and interesting, at first glance random but probably hanging off some part a grid, your guess is as good as mine, position for the bird.
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