Daily Book Graphics #253 / The Cinema as Art

©1969 / Design: Germano Facetti

Daily Book Graphics #243 / German Today

I wonder what the cover for German Today Two looks like. ©1976

Daily Book Graphics #162 / Dying

Another classic Germano Facetti cover. ©1967

Daily Book Graphics #110 / Bruno Munari

I just bought this Penguin Modern Classics 2008 reissue of Bruno Munari's Design as Art. The book was originally published in 1966 by Editori Laterza, and then by Pelican in 1971. The cover of this edition is by YES, I think it's really cool, but it's hard to beat the original:

Daily Book Graphics #71 / Brains

These books seem to relate to one another. The top one was designed by Rudolph De Harak (see DBG #3, DBG #9, DBG #58) and the bottom by Germano Facetti. Facetti was in charge of design at Penguin Books from 1962 to 1971. His obit is here. Flickr set of Penguin and Pelican covers here.