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The Back of My Head

Published February 11, 2009

The Caustic Cover Critic has posted some amazing book covers by the legendary Saul Bass that are just too good not to share:

I love the covers adapted from Bass’ movie posters for the Penguin editions of Saint Joan and Anatomy of a Murder, but this cover of Preminger: An Autobiography (pictured) is less well known. And it was nice to be reminded of the movie Yi Yi in which 8-year-old Yang-Yang makes it his mission to lovingly photograph the back of people’s heads…

…And in looking an image for Yi Yi, I came across a rather lovely post by designer Eric Skillman about creating the DVD edition for Criterion Collection:

The actor who played Yang Yang was obviously no longer available, so we had find a back-of-head double. We found a photographer (the talented Andre Constantini), who led us to a young model named Brian, the back of whose head was a fine match for Yang Yang.

Eric also designs books as it turns out. His blog looks great! A day of nice finds.

Published in Design and Film

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    […] Like the cover for The Orenda, Terri’s design ticks a lot of necessary “literary fiction” boxes, but does it so with great deal of style. It also looked great on a subway poster too. (And yes, I like back of the head close-ups apparently). […]

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    […] Like the cover for The Orenda, Terri’s design ticks a lot of necessary “literary fiction” boxes, but does it so with great deal of style. It also looked great on a subway poster too. (And yes, I like back of the head close-ups apparently). […]

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