{"id":660,"date":"2006-07-06T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T01:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-07-19T03:30:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T02:30:28","slug":"czech-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/06\/czech-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sil.si.edu\/ondisplay\/czechbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/czech.jpg\" id=\"image659\" alt=\"czech.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some nice jacket designs from the Twenties and Thirties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sil.si.edu\/ondisplay\/czechbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">at the Smithsonian<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been looking at a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructivism_%28art%29\" target=\"_blank\">Constructivist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suprematism\" target=\"_blank\">Suprematist<\/a> design recently and some of these come out of those styles. The Shaw jacket above was part of a series. Some of the companion designs can be seen in the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0500286043\/026-4160308-3455664?v=glance&amp;n=266239&amp;adid=0720Y6WTBN0J9VCN64MB&amp;camp=1406&amp;creative=6394&amp;link%5Fcode=as1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A2Z and More Signs<\/em><\/a> by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some nice jacket designs from the Twenties and Thirties at the Smithsonian. I&#8217;ve been looking at a lot of Constructivist and Suprematist design recently and some of these come out of those styles. The Shaw jacket above was part of a series. Some of the companion designs can be seen in the excellent A2Z and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/06\/czech-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Czech book covers&#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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-aE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}