Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Book cover design for the screenplay for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Consists of a rectangular photograph of a robot inside a white border, positioned slightly diagonally on the bottom half on the front cover. Printed in white ink, front cover, upper center: ff / METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang. The front cover text appears inside a clappberboard, outlined in white and with white and black diagonal stripes along the top. Printed in white ink, on spine: ff; printed in white ink, vertically, down spine: METROPOLIS / Fritz Lang. Printed in white, back cover, upper center: ff / faber and faber, London. Back cover also includes a synopsis, prices, and an ISBN label.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Jason Godfrey, British, b. ca. 1965
- Author
- Fritz Lang, Austrian, active Germany and USA, 1890–1976
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, London, England
- Date
- 1989
- Credit Line
- Gift of Steven Heller
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 in.)
- Type
- albums (bound) & books
- Object Name
- Book cover
- Type
- Book cover
