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John Gall: The Nabokov Collection

Nabokov Specimen Box Project: slide 4

Nabokov Specimen Box Project
The Enchanter: Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah

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ABOUT THE ESSAY

The Nabokov Collection
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov's book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes, the kind used by butterfly collectors like Nabokov, each created by a different designer.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Gall is the art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He is an instructor at the School of Visual Arts and currently serves on the board of AIGA/NY. He is the author (with Gary Engel) of Sayonara Home Run: The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card.
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