Design for Faber & Faber

For this gift hardback poetry series, with ten poets spanning the ten decades of Faber's history, I designed a series informed by the colour bars, blocks and fine lines of heritage Faber jackets. I selected existing prints and commissioned new work from eight different printmakers, a ceramicist and a textile designer who work in a Modernist idiom, with a strongly abstract quality to their work.

T. S. Eliot
The Wasteland
Commissioned artwork © Jonthathan Gibbs

Marianne Moore
Selected Poems
Commissioned artwork © Eleanor Pritchard

W. H. Auden
Another Time
Detail from Ard Neakie (Woodcut) © Jonathan Lloyd

Ted Hughes
The Hawk in the Rain
Commissioned artwork © Charles Shearer

Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Detail from La Central Jean Lesage I (Lithograph) © Bronwen Sleigh

Philip Larkin
High Windows
Commissioned artwork © Amanda-Sue Rope

Seamus Heaney
The Haw Lantern
Detail from Rain Window, Soft Sea II (Mokuhanga, 134 x 152cm) © Paul Furneaux

Wendy Cope
Serious Concerns
Detail from Blue Spectrum © Peter Green OBE

Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Detail from The British Architect (Linocut), originally commissioned by Pallant House Gallery © Paul Catherall

Jo Shapcott
Of Mutability
Detail from Underpass (Screenprint) © Emma Lawrenson

Published 2019