Penguin launches Little Black Classics series

To celebrate its 80th birthday, Penguin Books has launched Little Black Classics, a series of 80 titles priced at 80p each. The mini books feature short stories, poetry and dramas drawn from Penguin’s wider Classics list and their sleeves have a distinctive, black-and-white design. We talk to Penguin’s art director Jim Stoddart about how he devised the series’ look…