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Designing Dante

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Posted by Mark Sinclair, 18 April 2008, 14:07    Permalink    Comments (6)

Inferno
Cover of Dante's Inferno by Nicole Peterson

Nicole Peterson, a recent graphic design graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, designed these book covers for Dante's Divine Comedy. "I wanted to create a set of covers that didn't use images from the [Hieronymus] Bosch Hell painting, or any images of Dante and Virgil that are normally found on covers for the Divine Comedy," writes Peterson on her Flickr page. "I was inspired by Dante's use of mathematics and architecture in describing Hell, Heaven and Purgatory [and] employed simple geometric shapes and color to represent these places, while still keeping the design simple and allowing the reader to use their imagination when reading these vivid poems." Click through to see how the design was carried through to Purgatory and Paradise...

Purgatory
Cover of Dante's Purgatorio by Nicole Peterson

Paradise
Cover of Dante's Paradiso by Nicole Peterson

Series

Thanks to Armin Vit's Quipsologies for the original link.

6 Comments

Beautiful
Anthony
2008-04-18 21:59:10


I will also keep it succinct... fantastic!
CraigS
2008-04-18 23:39:11


Fucking gorgeous.
JT
2008-04-21 16:32:59


Wow, these are really nice.

They would also work brilliantly as typographic posters without the text at the bottom.
Shaun Tollerton
2008-04-21 17:34:03


Very very nice.
Congratulations!
Caio
2008-04-28 22:46:42


This is beautiful. Could not be simpler, or more effective.
Raymond F
2008-04-29 04:25:39


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