Inspired by last year's tome on 70 years of cover designs at Penguin, this Flickr gallery attempts to collect examples of the last few decades' worth of Penguin/Pelican jackets. If anything, the starkly crude, mod, and/or trippy designs are testaments to doing a lot with relatively limited graphic resources. Of course, you've also got plenty of purely objectionable cases of crap abstraction for abstract subjects, such as the coma-inducing Psychiatry To-day.

Penguin Books [Flickr via Boing Boing]

Earlier: Penguin Classics Get Comical

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