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The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
Marie Mundaca is book designer who lives in New York City. She has designed interiors for books by James Patterson and David Foster Wallace.
Marie Mundaca is book designer who lives in New York City. She has designed interiors for books by James Patterson and David Foster Wallace.
This is essentially a homage to the cover of the novel The Portable Veblen: A Novel by Elizabeth McKenzie, a book about a bright underachieving woman who is trying to balance her relationships with her mother, her fiancé, and a talking squirrel. I think the squirrel is a very apt image for The Theory of the Leisure Class; we ascribe human traits of hoarding, conspicuous consumption, and carefree leisure to the squirrel, who is actually engaged in daily life-and-death struggles. I went for obnoxious pastel neon colors to evoke candy, a tremendous (and delicious) waste of resources. It's odd that we don't talk more about Veblen when "Veblen Goods" (luxury items) are so prevalent in our society that you regularly see people with $2000 handbags on the New York City subway — Marie Mundaca
