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Verso Books
Category: Identity
Year: 2017
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Founded by the staff of London’s New Left Review in 1970, Verso Books is an independent, radical book publisher. Verso releases over 100 titles a year with a focus on politics, philosophy and culture. This identity proposal honors Verso's unabashedly leftist roots and positions the publisher at the intersection of politics and culture.
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Above: The slogan “the spine of the left” indicates Verso’s principled political perspective while alluding to the literal, physical output of a publishing house.
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Below: the mark’s tension calls to mind physical production and dialectic intellectual inquiry, as well as the physical form of a book.