JAWS by Peter Benchley, Doubleday edition
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on May 4th, 2017. Artwork published in
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5 Comments on “JAWS by Peter Benchley, Doubleday edition”
Though the relationship isn’t as direct, it seems also worth mentioning a vague similarity between the title lettering for the book (and subsequent film) and Gill Kayo.
Cool to see another edition of that book!
Zachary Petit wrote an article about the making of Jaws’ iconic book covers for Print, and credits Paul Bacon for the jacket design of the first edition.
See also the cover of Bantam’s paperback edition.
Ray Cruz is credited as the designer of this JAWS lettering, at least according to this feature in Typographic i, Vol. 14, No. 1, Jan 1982:
Great find, thanks!