I’ll be the first one to admit that I have a problem. I can’t control myself around used book stores. Their pull is magnetic, and it clouds my judgement. I can spend hours in one. First I look for old logo books. Then I start wandering aimlessly looking for raw material for my collages, which could be anything from cookbooks to ornithology textbooks. Inevitably, I find myself buying a few books simply because of the covers. Generally, they discuss arcane topics and have extremely abstract graphic cover art. They were almost always penned in the 60s or 70s. I never read them. I prop them up casually but conspicuously on our book shelves or endtables until the next one comes along.

These two are favorites. I like the layout applied to the series. And the way the type color coordinates. I’d love to find a couple more. The art is extremely abstract–its relationship to the subject matter very oblique.

Another science title. Nice clean type with a more dominant image. This graphic is really unique and, though abstract, feels like it somehow relates to the “dynamic” subject matter.

The designer of this one was probably thrilled to get to do something so stylistically 70s that actually fit the subject matter.

More from my collection to come!

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