Издание Fast Code Design представило необычный рейтинг книг. Они отбирались по принципу красочности исполнения именно обложки, а не контента внутри. Редакция показывает, как выглядят «победители» необычной премии.

Paul Rand: A Designer's Art

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The Origin of (Almost) Everything

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Vintage Classics Woolf Series

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Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stepahi Posavec

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Whiplash by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Visual Editions) 

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Sunday Sketching by Christoph Neimann 

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The Well-Tempered City by Jonathan F. P. Rose

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The graphics standards manual for the Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial

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Never Built New York by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin

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Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? by Metahaven

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