Ootje Oxenaar Spines (Design Brief No. 4) gehennapress we asked our friend Erik

we asked our friend Erik van Blokland to design a small poster for this place—and

It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W

Recently we had to design a typographic cover

staying up all night to finish

books poorly crafted and tasteless

Ootje Oxenaar Spines (Design Brief No. 4) gehennapress we asked our friend ErikOn the whole, a books spine is its most prominent feature. One would be better advised to not judge a book by its spine, and forget the cover we hardly ever see. Alas, book spines often get little attentionunless they belonged to Ootje Oxenaar. Although renowned for his designs for Dutch banknotes and postage stamps (and the subject of our fourth Standing Room Only Lecture), Oxenaar was a prolific designer of book spines. This wasnt done for