How book designer David Pearson made Penguin dance

By Susan Wyndham
Updated August 31 2015 - 10:13am, first published August 25 2015 - 10:22am
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
David Pearson's cover design for <i>Why I Write</i> by George Orwell, from the Great Ideas series.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
The cover design for <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> by George Orwell, by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Penguin book cover designs by David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
Book designer David Pearson.
The rainbow Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.
The rainbow Pocket Penguins designed by David Pearson.

The cheekiest of David Pearson's designs for Penguin, the venerable British book publisher, was a 2013 edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Pearson's only tweak to the famous Penguin orange-and-cream cover was to black out the title and author's name, as if Big Brother had got to it.

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