Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl
Surreal and controversial, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is a literary classic that most find hard to pigeonhole.
![Barbara Wilde](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/BarbaradeWilde.jpg)
And book cover designers have traditionally struggled to convey the nuances and themes of the work.
![Ben Wiseman](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/Ben-Wiseman.jpg)
Frustrated by this – and inspired by online archive of published Lolita covers, many of which fail to express the book’s themes – architect and writer John Bertram contacted designers around the world to see if they could do better.
![Ellen Lupton](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/EllenLupton.jpg)
The result is upcoming book Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl, edited by Bertram and Nabokov Online Journal editor Yuri Leving.
![Jamie Keenan](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/JamieKeenan.jpg)
Among the 60 contributors are Pentagram partners Paula Scher and Michael Bierut and Cooper-Hewitt curator Ellen Lupton.
![Paula Scher](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/PaulaScher.jpg)
As well as the new covers, the book will also feature essays on Nabokov and design, as well as submissions from an international Lolita cover competition Bertram ran in 2009.
![Rachel Berger](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2013/04/Rachel-Berger.jpg)
Lolita – The Story of a Cover Girl, will be published in August by Print. For more information and to pre-order a copy visit John Bertram’s website Venus Febriculosa.
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