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Tuesday November 10th, 2009

Great(ly Bad) Moments in Book Design

On Wednesday, Nov. 18, comedian Patrick Borelli is putting on a show called “You Should Judge a Book By Its Cover” at the UCB Theatre in New York. Borelli will be sharing and discussing (making fun of) 30 of the craziest book covers he’s come across. (You can make reservations here.) He also interviewed a trio of terrific designers — Steven Heller, Chip Kidd and Rodrigo Corral — and videos of those conversations will be shown throughout the night. Here’s one of them (semi-safe for work, depending on your workplace’s policy about scatological humor):