Jesse Marinoff Reyes:
LIFE DURING WARTIME: A selection of my WWII (and one WWI) cover designs. In many cases history books (especially military or war) call for BIG type, and often big, generic type which to me is a shame. I was lucky in the examples shown here to skirt around this by arguing for period-authentic design and authentic type forms from the era (or at least type that we have that is unchanged) and being able to use BIG type the right way—to evoke wartime propaganda posters or newspapers and magazines that documented the times as they were unfolding and bring the viewer back to that experience.
JMR Design
Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris
Penguin Books, 1994
Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes
Photographs: Robert Capa/Magnum
Art Director: Paul Buckley
My first cover for Penguin Books. My insistence on period authentic design and typography here extended to the treatment (this is a pre-digital design). I set up the mechanical as I thought a WWII-era propaganda designer would, including hand drawing the stippled title-and-author type textured outline and banging out the support type on a 60-year old typewriter. The format was influenced as much by posters, as with pocket manuals and pamphlet designs.
JMR Design
The Emperor’s Codes
Penguin Books, 2002
Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes
Illustration: Marc Yankus (using archival documentation photographs via The National Archives; and the Japanese Rising Sun flag by Martin Plomer/(c) Dorling Kindersley)
Art Director: Paul Buckley
My rubber-stamp “dossier” title treatment might have worked a hair better if the red “misprint” had come through a tad darker.
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