Covering the fifties

Beneath the glossy, time-worn veneer of these 1950s book covers is a wealth of absolutely nothing. The books exist only as covers that designer Dan Parry and I put together for a slideshow promoting the FilmoType font collection. Choosing books as the medium let us steer clear of diner culture, greasers, and rock & roll, and delve a little deeper into the era. An homage to The Hardy Boys made the cut, and my visit to the Atomic Testing Museum turned up as a fallout shelter manual for “living forever and ever with your nuclear family”.