Judge books by their covers.
The excellent design blog, Ace Jet 170, blog has posted his collection of Pelican paperbacks, featuring some very inventive cover designs.
While I got a pang of fear spotting W. J. Reichmann's Use and Abuse of Statistics (my grandfather gave me a copy once, I think expecting me to memorize it), there are some stunning minimal design covers well worth leaving at the top of your coffee table pile.
Check out Part One and Part Two of his All My Pelicans series
