The Commissariat of Enlightenment
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publication date: November 30, 1999
- Genre: Fiction
- designer: Elizabeth Ackerman
- Typeface: Regency Gothic
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For Elizabeth Ackerman to call herself the "designer" of this book jacket is ridiculous. She's a graphic design plagiarists. This was stolen outright from an old Russian Revolutionary poster design. I have a reprint stored away somewhere. It's a personal favorite. Appropriated imagery has a long history in art and in current book jacket design, but to not even try and pass it off as "your" work is shameful. And for Book Archive to say it's one of the tops of the year is shameful too. Do some research before you honor thieves.
The font used used is definitely early 20th century Russian poster style. Prove your charge of plagiarism by showing us the "reprint stored away somewhere"
I agree with Seames. The image is exactly the same as a reprint I have framed in my home. I think I purchased it (for next to nothing) from a poster vendor outside MOMA. The text (and font) are different (on my print it is in Russian)but the image is the same.
This will probably shed some light on the question. (see link)
I have no idea who designed the original poster (left), but I'm pretty sure it was a Russian quite a few years ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24140210@N05/4389361105/
The Russian designer of the original poster was Nikolay Petrovich Prusakov (1929).