{"id":21404,"date":"2022-03-14T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21404"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:32:51","slug":"covering-ishiguro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/03\/14\/covering-ishiguro\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering Ishiguro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro1.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like seeing an author&#8217;s works designed as a set, and so do the bigger publishers for whom redesigns are a useful way to freshen their back catalogue. This month the Faber edition of <em>Klara and the Sun<\/em> by Kazuo Ishiguro provides the template for a redesign of the author&#8217;s previous works, with new editions of the seven other novels plus a story collection, <em>Nocturnes<\/em>. I&#8217;ve not read any of these books so I&#8217;ll leave it to Ishiguro&#8217;s readers to gauge the suitability of the minimal illustrations, although the one for <em>Nocturnes<\/em> is the kind of visual pun that designers today often search for. The image is explained by the book&#8217;s subtitle, &#8220;Five Stories of Music and Nightfall&#8221;. I&#8217;d have been tempted to go the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyemagazine.com\/feature\/article\/the-rules-of-the-game-extract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Hardie<\/a> route with the illustrations, flattening the colours, adding outlines, and placing that cassette and shadow at forty-five-degree angles. But Hardie&#8217;s bold isometrics might seem a little too cartoony for Ishiguro. Faber designer Pete Adlington recounts the thinking behind his covers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/journal\/cover-design-klara-and-the-sun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro2.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro3.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro4.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro5.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro6.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro7.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro8.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ishiguro9.jpg\" alt=\"ishiguro9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like seeing an author&#8217;s works designed as a set, and so do the bigger publishers for whom redesigns are a useful way to freshen their back catalogue. This month the Faber edition of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro provides the template for a redesign of the author&#8217;s previous works, with new editions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/03\/14\/covering-ishiguro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Covering Ishiguro&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Covering Ishiguro","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[4706,10235,11331],"class_list":["post-21404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-george-hardie","tag-kazuo-ishiguro","tag-pete-adlington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}