I freaking love this cover design done by Jez Burrows, who won second place at the 2008 Penguin Design Award in the UK. Love the condensed typography. I used to despise condensed fonts but now I can’t get enough of them. I love the confidence Jez showed by covering up a lot of the title. It definitely works. Most people associate Jack Kerouac with this classic anyway. I am actually working through the book right now (not this particular copy unfortunately, which I hope gets published). It is the type of book that somehow simultaneously stirs up this deep passion to travel and also kinda ef’s my brain up a bit. Either way I can’t put the thing down.
I’ve tried a number of times over the past few years to finish the book, but every time I get back into it I end up getting depressed that I’m not living then and riding the rails everywhere.
Subsequently, I am half of the way through 3 of his books. Forever.