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ANATOMY OF DESIGN
For the seventieth anniversary of the illustrious paperback publisher Penguin
Books, the idea to make a boxed set of seventy unusual short stories by
luminaries from their backlist, such as Anton Chekhov (“The Kiss”), F. Scott
Fitzgerald (“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”), H. G. Wells (“The Country of the
Blind”), Hunter S. Thompson (“Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson”), John Updike
(“Three Trips”), and Muriel Spark (“The Snobs”), opened a wealth of design
opportunities to draw from design history but also build a new legacy.
Penguin, founded in 1935 by Alan Lane to provide high-quality content
as inexpensively as possible, has enjoyed ...