Ootje Oxenaar Spines (Design Brief No. 4) gehennapress Sometimes it can be paper

Sometimes it can be paper figures by graphic designers

Recently we had to design a typographic cover

built in 1877 for James Manter Hilton and George H

staying up all night to finish

books poorly crafted and tasteless

Ootje Oxenaar Spines (Design Brief No. 4) gehennapress Sometimes it can be paperOn the whole, a books spine is its most prominent feature. One would be better advised to not judge a book by its spine, and forget the cover we hardly ever see. Alas, book spines often get little attentionunless they belonged to Ootje Oxenaar. Although renowned for his designs for Dutch banknotes and postage stamps (and the subject of our fourth Standing Room Only Lecture), Oxenaar was a prolific designer of book spines. This wasnt done for