The solution began with filling the box with old photographs under vellum, but an accidental test shot by designer Katie Barcelona that left out the photographs altogether was deemed more evocative.
Faced with the task of designing 21 new covers for the works of Vladimir Nabokov, art director John Gall decided to ask 20 other designers for help. To create a series look鈥攁nd to pay homage to Nabokov's passion for butterfly collecting鈥攈e sent each of the participating designers a collector's specimen box to serve as the centerpiece of the cover.
Pentagram was assigned Nabokov's 1951 memoir . The solution began with filling the box with old photographs under vellum, but an accidental test shot by designer Katie Barcelona that left out the photographs altogether was deemed more evocative.
The whole series, timed to the publication of Nabokov's last work, , with cover design by Chip Kidd, can be seen .
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