Spotted in London at Foyles (which is moving into a newly constructed building next door in early 2014): Penguin UK’s brilliant and audacious reissue of Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four.’ It’s designed in the classic orange and white bands as mid-century Penguin paperbacks were, but it’s embossed and redacted.
No American publisher would have the courage to let a book’s theme drive the design so confidently that the title of the product would be obscured.
Great cover! I’d love it even more if they had gone completely bonkers and blacked it out on the spine too.