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
Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History
Penguin Books, 2001
Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes
Photograph: (c) Scott Swanson/Archive Photos
Art Director: Paul Buckley
This is the second of Prange’s Pacific War titles and since it too was a Pearl Harbor study, I shifted away from the 1940s poster “tilt” and display typeface style, but kept enough similar elements in common and treatment to maintain a non-uniform uniform.
JMR Design
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Penguin Books, 2001
Design: Jesse Marinoff Reyes
Photograph: (c) Scott Swanson/Archive Photos
Art Director: Paul Buckley
The first of a series of repackaged covers for historian Gordon W. Prange’s books on the Pacific War. Here, the look of 1940s war propaganda (posters, pamphlets, etc.) became my template for each book’s title-block matched with a significant image of the key event. This trio is a more streamlined take on the same approach I’d used on a title I’d done seven years earlier, Six Armies in Normandy .
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