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Wikinomics

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One of the great things about being a designer is getting to work with fantastically talented people, be they illustrators, photographers, printers, or heck, even clients.

We recently got the chance to work on a book cover with one of our favourite illustrators, the magnificently talented Tom Gauld.
The book is the paperback version of the international bestseller Wikinomics. It's an in-depth analysis of the ways people and companies are using the web to collaborate in dazzling and revolutionary ways, and is really worth a read.

We gave Tom a thumbnail sketch of an idea for the cover, where lots of people group together to make up the title of the book, and asked him to make it better.
We're dead chuffed with the results.

posted: 9 June 2008
categories: Uncategorized
 
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