22.2.11

Cormac McCarthy Picador Covers

As with many books now, they only gain world wide attention after they have been made into a film. When Cormac McCarthy's The Road was adapted last year, so too were his books given a new lease of life.

the entire collection

Commissioned by U.K. book publisher Pan Macmillan, British designer David Pearson redesigned the author's entire collection for the Picador reprint. After purchasing a copy of The Road (of course! The famous one! The one that is now a film populated by attractive film stars!) I can state my admiration for the design - it is both interesting, individual, striking, and above all, entirely appropriate. It sets the tone of the writing before one even lifts the front cover, which is a feat indeed considering the scale of the mammoth landscapes inhabited by McCarthy's hardy protagonists - from post apocalyptic urban decay to blood thirsty Mid-Western bounty hunters, all in complimentary fonts. Perfection.












And then I found this one, which must be by the same guy, right? RIIGGGHTT???


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  1. HENRY FRYOctober 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    I have copies of The Road and No Country For Old Men - both have fairly uneventful spine fonts unfortunately! A vague variation on Ariel or Helvetica. Perhaps they left all the excitement for the front??

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  2. UnknownMarch 5, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    Any advice on where to find these online? Live in California been searching avidly

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  3. HENRY FRYMarch 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM

    I think Amazon has nearly all of them. Of course it's a bit of a risk as sometimes the copy you receive isn't the one pictured. But that's my best bet!

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