The Book Jacket Art of Chip Kidd

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was the most ambitious and intricate design for a work of fiction I'd ever attempted...While I'm usually loathe to go so literal with title and imagery, the idea was to make the device on the jacket so relatively large that it can't be perceived as a whole when wrapped around the book and so becomes completely abstracted."

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