Lizards Don’t Eat Cheese: Vintage Cuban Book Covers
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These book covers originally appeared as part of a "centerfold" in Gratuitous Type, "the pamphlet of typographic smut." Gratuitous Type publisher Elana Schlenker donated her photos now that the issue is out-of-print (buy issue 2 while it's available).
Elana was originally turned on to Cuban cover design during a visit to Cuba several years ago. She later researched and photographed a number of book covers designed and published there in the sixties and seventies. She noted that the majority of the books are screenprinted.
Previously: Cuban film posters by Eduardo Muñoz Bachs
Y un día el sol es juez (And One Day the Sun is Judge)
design by Godfredo Granados, 1976
El fabulista (The Fablist)
design by Raúl Martínez, 1973
Punto de partida (Point of Departure), 1970
El astillero (The Shipyard), 1968
La sangre (Blood), 1978
Turcious Lima, design by Alfrédo Gonzalez Rostgaard, 1969
Recopilación de textos sobre Juan Marinello (Compilation of Texts on Juan Marinello)
design by Umberto Peña, 1979
Catalogo de imprevistos (Catalog of the Unexpected)
design by Raúl Martínez, 1963
Los lagartos no comen queso (Lizards Don’t Eat Cheese)
design by Darío Mora, 1975
La vorágine (The Vortex), 1966
Del barrio y las voces (On the Neighborhood and the Voices)
design by Jacques Brouté, 1968
De los años de siembra (From the years of the harvest)
design by Darío Mora, 1977
Ensayos (Practices), 1972
La busqueda (The Search)
design by Tony Évora, 1962
El crac del 29 (The financial crash of 1929)
design by Oscar Hernández, 1969
La pata de Palo (The Foot of Palo)
design by Umberto Peña, 1967
Versiones (Versions), design by Darío Mora, 1970
Muestrario del mundo o libro de las maravillas de Boloña
(Samples of the World or Book of the Wonders of Boloña), 1969
El barrio de las ranas alegres (The Neighborhood of Happy Frogs)
design by Darío Mora, 1969
La odilea (A satire of Homer’s Odyssey, Odisea in Spanish)
design by Jacques Brouté, 1968
Outtakes:
El fin del caos llega quietamente
design by Darío Mora, 1971
Para matar al lobo
design by Raúl Martínez, 1971
El octavo dia, 1964
Previously: Cuban film posters by Eduardo Muñoz Bachs
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