Porcupines
Edited by Graham Higgin
Penguin, 2000

The cover of Porcupines, by an uncredited Penguin designer, is an exhilarating response to the question of how to package a philosophical anthology. It features a photograph of a snowbound pine forest (by American photographer Rod Planck) which is so abstract it barely looks like a photograph at all. The colour palette is too limited – black, white and brown – and the formal structure too rigidly geometric: a cross-hatch of vertical and horizontal lines and bands.