The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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A spectacular jacket design for the first British edition of The Forever War, published in fall 1975 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Designer Nick Sutton started with Tony Wenman’s Buster, a 1972 Letraset face with perspective caps. He inverted the shadow-only glyphs, gave them dimensional bodies, and rotated them by about 55 degrees to the left. Now they seem to float in space; an illusion that is intensified by the big overlapping “WAR” letters (backwards rotalics!) and the implied stars in the speckled background.

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The spine lettering is in all-caps Grotesque No. 9.

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