Type Casting

I recalled this book cover design in Timothy Samara’s Typography Workbook. The design is attributed to Stephen Doyle of Doyle Partners but I think the type is Stefan Sagmeister’s work. The bookcover is for The Druid King, a novel by Norman Spinrad. The type is formed from twigs and acorns.

Check out Sagmeister’s website, http://sagmeister.com/, he has some unusual ways with type. In one ad, he used disposable coffee cups to form type. Some are empty and upside-down, others are filled with coffee-with and without cream. Another—Work 5—he used his own body as a canvas. He was scheduled to speak in Chicago on the painful process of design. He had his intern Martin carve the event particulars into his skin with a scalpel, photographed the result and used enlargements as event posters.