Romek Marber is a key designer in the shaping of post war book design. He arrived in the Uk in 1946, after narrowly escaping German concentration camps. A decade later his Penguin Crime paperback covers changed the course of book design.
“To launch the new Crime series I was asked to do twenty titles,” the designer recalled in a talk given to the Penguin Collectors Society in 2007 (later published in the book, Penguin By Illustrators). “The month was June and the books had to be on display in October. The ‘grid’ and the rather dark visual images, suggestive of crime, had an immediate impact.”
After these new designs were produced, many designers began to find inspiration in the style. Facetti commissioned more designers to adopt the style, such as illustrator Paul Hogarth, shown in the design below.
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