Hollis in the Sixties

Found this in the surplus box in our local charity bookshop. Deserving much better I salvaged it even though I've already got it. Designed by Richard Hollis, in my opinion it's probably the second best Penguin Specials cover from that time. The best being Hollis's cover for The Stagnant Society from around the same time.

You might know Richard Hollis from his essential book Swiss Graphic Design from a few years ago but his website is superb with loads of examples of exceptional work.

Comments

[Ákos Polgárdi]

I just started reading his 'Graphic Design: A Concise History' and is struck me as a truly intelligent and serious introductory work. (The illustrations, however, are mostly useless, especially if one is used to reading blogs with high res images.)