
Above: A new favorite book cover: Writings From the Zen Masters, from Penguin’s Great Ideas series. Cover design by Alistair Hall. You know you’re a designer with clout when you can convince a major publishing house to go with a book cover so minimalist that it has neither title nor author on it, or in fact any text at all. (And reduces that publisher’s iconic logo to an almost indistinguishable purple stamp.)

