»We’ve always been interested in the crime novels of Chandler, Hammett and Cain and wanted to design a FUEL incarnation of those works,” says FUEL’s Damon Murray. “The elements for the cover [above] were taken from half-remem­bered 50s and 60s crime novels and films and then constructed into a ‘scene’. We bought a replica gun and then photo­graphed several scenarios before settling on ‘the lady in the gutter’.«

Crime ist ein Buch, halb Fiktion und halb Realität, aus der Feder von Alix Lambert. Gestaltet wurde es von FUEL.

»Inside, we chose a stock close to the ‘pulp’ of the early crime novels. For typefaces we looked at newspapers from the 1940s and 50s, like the LA Times. [Quotes are set in Geometric; body copy in Baskerville]. Overall, we wanted to make an object that was seductive in a hard-boiled way.«

Schon allein das Cover beeindruckt, hinzu kommen stilvolle Fotografien und schöne Typografie im Inhalt.

Crime kostet 20£ im FUEL Shop, eine Special Edition in der Box für 150£ ist ebenfalls erhältlich und auf 100 Exemplare limitiert.

Quelle: Creative Review Blog