Penguin and Pelican books, we all know them as the inexpensive paperback books that we used for our high school and college English courses.
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Some people in the design world have been drawing attention to those paperbacks that most of us didn’t think much about. As a start, a good website to take a look at a collection of Penguin covers spanning several years is designer Joe Kral’s flickr page. If you like what you see and want to know more, there are a few books devoted to the subject.
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