Luke Judge

When children step into a Kiddsmiles Pediatric Dentistry office, they may temporarily forget that they are visiting the dentist. the multicolored game room, filled with televisions, Xbox and Playstation consoles, and various other games and toys, looks more like a Fun Zone room than a waiting room.

That is the vision that Dr. Michele Savel, 37, the owner of Kiddsmiles, had in mind when she opened her practice in 2006 in North Babylon. Savel has since opened two other offices, and in January, she will open her fourth location in Merrick.

“I just wanted it to be fun,” said Savel. “It’s not like going to the dentist as we remember it as kids, where it was a negative experience.”

The fun isn’t over when the children leave the game room. Each dental room is painted to convey a different theme, such as outer space, the jungle or under the sea. “Most of the kids, when they come in here, they ask their parents, ‘When are we coming back?’” she said.

Savel, who lives in Dix Hills, employs an all-female staff, which includes five other dentists, as well as hygienists. she and her husband, Scott, have two kids, Sasha, 3, and Scarlet, 5.

Savel said that she was inspired to become a dentist because of her childhood experiences. “As a child, I had a negative experience. I was phobic of the dentist until I was 18,” she said.

Finally, Savel said, she had a pleasant experience with a dentist named Dr. Thomas Shea, and realized that visiting the dentist needn’t be such a bad thing. “He just kind of changed my thinking,” she said.

Savel attended the University of Maryland, where she earned her bachelor’s degree, and completed her dentistry degree at the New York University College of Dentistry in 2002.

Initially, she worked as an associate in Roslyn, but then realized that she wanted to start her own practice. “Before, I was practicing at a practice that was a little more antiquated,” she said. “I just felt like I wanted to have my own practice so that I could incorporate new technologies,”

Those technologies, Savel said, include lasers, low-radiation digital X-Rays, quieter drills, and the STA system, which she calls a “wand.”

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S cientists in Pittsburgh can make footballs talk.

Priya Narasimhan, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and her team of 10 engineering students have developed a “smart football” with a miniature GPS unit and accelerometer, both contained in a half-ounce microchip inside the ball.

The chip can measure factors such as ball speed, spin, trajectory and — even when it`s buried under a pile of players — the precise location of the football.

The NFL is looking into the technology as a way to make officiating and game timing even more accurate.

Narasimhan and her team are not the only ones to have developed such a chip. according to a Reuters report, German manufacturer Cairos Technologies has been in talks with the NFL about putting its chips in footballs to determine, say, when the ball has crossed the goal line.

Cairos has done the same with soccer balls, creating a system of thin cables under the playing surface that generate magnetic fields that are picked up by sensors in the ball. That location information is transmitted to a central computer, which uses the data to determine when the ball has crossed the goal line. when a goal has been scored, the computer alerts the referee by transmitting a radio signal to his watch.

There are unique challenges to embedding a similar chip in an oblong football, Narasimhan said.

“You can`t change the weight, the spiral, the torque or the feel of the football,” she said. “It is really critically important, otherwise you`ve just ruined the whole purpose. and for that, it became really critical that we look at it from the mechanical engineering viewpoint.”

Some of the challenges aren`t immediately obvious to everyone. For instance, how do you charge a chip that`s depleted of power very quickly? The students in Pittsburgh have developed an inductive-charging system similar to the one used for electric toothbrushes.

Then, there`s fine-tuning the GPS to mark the precise spot, rather than within a few feet or yards. and the signal needs to be strong enough to pass through multiple bodies that might be covering the ball.

It also has to be done economically. The Pittsburgh engineering students say they could produce their chip for about $10.

Simply identifying whether a ball has broken the plane of the goal line isn`t necessarily enough. If the player`s knee touched the ground before the ball crossed the line, for instance, then it wasn`t a touchdown. Narasimhan raises the possibility of putting chips in kneepads, elbow pads and gloves. in other words, it`s all a work in progress.

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Having fairly bad peridontitis, I was getting scolded by my dentist because of my continuous high plaque scores. so I hopped onto Amazon to see if there was a device that would do away with my clumsy style of manually flossing with my fingers. I was convinced enough by the reviews of the Flossaid so I decided to buy 3 3-packs. I gave 8 to relatives and kept one for myself. this Flossaid is really great. Initially I had some difficulty manouevering it, but after practicing in front of a mirror, I have gotten the angles right. the Flossaid is sturdy and reaches all the spots. Mine is only about 3 weeks old. the only thing that could go wrong is if the wheel stops holding the floss tightly. With proper care, it should last years. I can really get down into the sulcus (gum between teeth), up and down the opposing sides of my teeth and with a bit of a twist, I get a fair amount of the cheek side and the tongue side. Don’t rush flossing. go slow. I takes me about 20 mins or more to make sure I do a thorough job. I know when my teeth are really flossed now. my only complaint is that they should separate the attachment points for both ends of the floss. sometimes the ends tangle up around the wheel, and takes a while to undo the floss and move it over. Attachment points near the end of each prong would save some floss and be easier to move it over. Overall a big boost to my oral care. my last plaque score three days ago was 17% and my dentist gave me a pat on the back. I think I can still do better than that. Don’t assume kids will floss properly, you need to use the mirror approach and make sure they scrape the full length up from the base of tooth surfaces and not just side to side scraping on the gum line. I definitely recommend this product. And remember to use it every night, after your last meal!

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The Maine Dental Association (MDA) recently endorsed Question #2, because they believe it is a key strategy to address Maine’s dental crisis. They understand that building clinic space and a dental school in Maine will directly address many of the dental shortages our state now faces.

The dental crisis in Maine is not new news. Year after year, studies done by state, federal and private health organizations have reached the same conclusion: Nearly 250,000 Mainers have no access to dental care. Each of Maine’s 16 counties has a federally designated shortage area. Perhaps even more troubling is that as 40% of Maine dentists, are nearing retirement age. So the problem is only going to get worse.

Every dollar of the $5 million bond issue on November’s ballot would be spent on increasing access through direct investment in community dental clinics throughout the state. One of these clinics will be a teaching clinic at a Maine-based dental school. From our experience with dental residencies, we know that students who are recruited from Maine, educated in Maine, and then participate in clinical rotations in Maine, are very likely to stay in Maine. In a similar program, over 60% of medical residents who participate in residencies in Maine decide to spend their professional careers in Maine.

Lack of access has a negative impact on our economy. Children who can’t get dental care have problems in school due to pain or low self-esteem. Adults with dental pain often have fewer economic opportunities, and have other health complications such as diabetes and heart disease. Health care costs are driven by the misuse of emergency rooms that can only treat people for dental pain and infection, but cannot treat the underlying cause of the disease. Even an alarming percentage of our soldiers are suffering and cannot be deployed due to bad oral health. One by one, these stories add up to create the statistics that are so shocking: nearly 1 in 5 Mainers go without access to a dentist.

Passage of Question 2 will result in real economic benefits as well. Construction jobs are estimated to generate $37 million in economic activity and perhaps even more importantly, the ongoing impact from employment at the clinics and dental school is estimated at $35 million. During these difficult fiscal times, it is extraordinarily important to have private public partnerships that will inject private economic growth in our state.

In your editorial the concerns you raise regarding population growth seem completely unconnected to this issue, unless you’re insinuating that we should not be providing care to our current population. We take the contrary point of view, unless we can maintain a strong health care workforce the likelihood that we will attract and retain new citizens is highly unlikely. Other policies, such as increasing MaineCare reimbursement or establishing tax incentives would be great, but as you likely know, they would also cost the tax payers much more on an ongoing basis than question # 2. Furthermore, unless we address the fundamental issue of a shortfall of available dentists in Maine and the rest of the country, incentives alone will never work.

To put it simply, we can let things stay as they are — no care for large percentage of our population — or we can invest a little to save a lot. Once we have built these clinics, students will work all over the state delivering tens of thousands of patient visits. Private and federal funds will more than double the bond funds used for the clinics to build Maine’s first dental school. Maine will have recruited and trained its own dentists right here in Maine and have experienced the economic benefits of both educating our dentists as well as having the benefit of new dental practices right here in Maine.

This bond is widely supported. It had broad bipartisan support in the Legislature. All five candidates for Governor have endorsed it, along with the Maine Dental Association, Maine Health, the Maine Medical Association; the Maine Chamber of Commerce the list goes on and on. The benefits of the bond have been clearly presented and can be seen on the web at dentalcareforme.org

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The number of patients seeking dental treatment abroad has been steadily rising for the past 10 years. As dental treatment prices rise and waiting lists grow longer, traveling abroad for dental treatment is becoming more popular as patients struggle to find the treatment they need at home.

According to statistics, more than 100,000 UK patients travel abroad for dental treatment every year and this figure is higher in the United States, with many patients taking advantage of the USA’s close proximity to Mexico to find cheaper dental care.

For many patients, cost is the number one factor when it comes to dental treatments. Without dental insurance many Americans and Canadians find they cannot afford extensive dental work in their home countries. Patients with dental insurance often find that advanced dental options such as dental implants with dental crowns are excluded from their policy and dental coverage rarely extends to elective procedures such as tooth whitening

Without insurance dental treatment is cost prohibitive, leading patients to postpone dental treatment which can lead to a further decline of dental health and more costly treatment necessary.

Patients traveling to countries where dental treatment is more affordable find they can save between 40-75% on reconstructive dental procedures and cosmetic dentistry work to enhance their smile. Dental tourism destinations such as Hungary, Croatia and Poland are increasingly popular with European patients while Mexico and Costa Rica are the dental treatment countries of choice for most Americans.

It’s not only the high cost of dental treatment that is driving more and more people abroad – the long waiting lists for dental treatment under national health services in the UK and Canada are major factors helping to boost the dental tourism market.

For UK patients, the privatisation of national health service dental clinics has meant that many patients wait up to 18 months simply to register with a dentist. The decreasing numbers of NHS dentists has increased the popularity of dental treatments abroad for UK patients and cross border dental treatment in European countries has risen almost 60% since 2001.

The shortage of government funded dentists affects not only UK patients but Canadians also who often have long waiting lists for dental treatment. It is not uncommon to hear of Canadian and British patients waiting for up to 6 months for a routine appointment before a second appointment for treatment can be scheduled.

Privatised dental care in the UK and many European countries is expensive and there is little dental insurance coverage provided by employees. The freedom of travel between European countries allows patients the freedom to extend their dental care options, travelling to European dental tourism destinations such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia for dental treatment with major savings.

As the number of dental tourism patients soars, the number of dental clinics worldwide offering substantial discounts to international patients increases. Dental clinics abroad offer translation services, price packages on elective cosmetic dental procedures and assistance in booking a vacation to complement the dental vacation.

Many of the dentists advertising services in Eastern European and South American countries – countries where the medical tourism boom is strongest – qualified in dentistry from top universities in the UK, Canada and USA.

As patients search for more affordable options, dentists are striving to provide them. For dentists, countries such as Bulgaria offer the opportunity to provide advanced dental treatments without charging patients excessive fees to cover the overheads of running a dental clinic. Lower rental costs, cheaper equipment and lower wage expectations allow dentists to absorb the practise costs without additional fees to patients.

The medical tourism industry is estimates to be worth over $20 billion USD and dental tourism makes up approximately 35% of this income. In 2010 an estimated 120,000 UK patients, over 300,000 Americans and many more patients from Europe and Canada will travel abroad for dental treatment. As these figures increase the more need there is for portals to help patients find the dentist and the dental tourism destination that is right for them.

Online directories such as WhereismyDentist.com

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We abuse our mouths mercilessly. We care for the skin around our eyes, exfoliate our noses, but we overlook the one feature on our face that is constantly in motion. Not only have we subjected our poor lips to the blazing summer sun, but we also torture them every day while drinking, eating, smoking and talking.

Some of us even unwittingly bite or pull our lips with our fingers when we are stressed out or while we’re thinking about something. The result? A rough and flaky mouth. Most women assume they can cover this up with lipstick or gloss, and if you’re one of them, you are doing yourself a great disservice. Drawing attention to your lips by layering colour over them is the last thing you want to do when they are peeling.

To salvage your lips, you must exfoliate them before you use any kind of balm. Until you remove the dead layer of skin, no amount of chapstick or lipstick is going to heal your mouth. Ensure your pout is soft and smooth by giving one of our favourite exfoliation methods a shot.

Begin by applying either a little Vaseline or olive oil to your lips. If your mouth is extra flaky or rough, add a little sugar to the base product. Next, using a toothbrush (preferably not one that is electric and definitely not the one you are currently using for your teeth), gently start brushing the entire surface of your lips in small, circular motions. Be gentle – your mouth is delicate and will be sore if you brush harshly.

After about thirty seconds to a minute (depending on your sensitivity level), wash your lips with cold water and clean the brush. Finish up by moisturising your lips with a moisturising balm. For best results, remember to exfoliate at least every two weeks.

Once your mouth feels butter smooth, you can fearlessly apply lipstick without drawing attention to flakes. Feel confident when experimenting with the flirty fall colours appearing on catwalks everywhere, such as purple, red, orange and even black (yes, now you can enjoy Halloween every day).

But before you reach into your make-up bag, did you know that the colour of the lipstick you wear affects how big or small your lips look? Different shades can either make your lips appear plump like Angelina Jolie’s or thin like Jennifer Aniston’s. Augment your newly exfoliated mouth with colours that are perfect for your lip size.

If you’re plagued by a large pout and want to make your lips look smaller, skip the nudes. Instinct may lead you to believe that dark colours actually attract attention and should be avoided. However, in reality, deep shades will help to minimise your mouths appearance. Choose your colours by avoiding light, bright colours and sticking to darker, earthy tones.

Those who want their lips to appear larger than they are should seek out light to medium shades, such as nudes and lighter versions of pink and coral. Steer clear from deep shades, they will cause your lips to seem smaller. If you absolutely must go dark, be sure to counter the effect with a little shimmery gloss at the centre of your pout. The reflective particles will give the illusion of plumpness.

Whatever the measurements of your pout, we can’t stress enough the importance of caring for your mouth first. Pair your lipstick with soft, cared-for lips and we know you will rock any shade you choose.

Maria Saadat is author of the popular desi beauty site Lipstick Masala.

QUESTION TIME

Do you have a question about make-up? Can’t figure out a hairstyle for an upcoming wedding? Do your attempts at smoky eye make-up leave you looking like a raccoon? Have no fear! E-mail your questions and issues to  and Maria Saadat will respond to them in an upcoming column.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 13th, 2010.

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Toothbrushes comes in many different shapes and sizes and it tends to be confusing to know which one is the best for you. As an example, latest manual toothbrush models can come with a head that will flex when you press harder as well as a handle that can be round, straight, flat or contoured.. All of them are marketed as being better than the rest for a number of reasons which just adds to the confusion.

However, you can do away with all of these endless features and confusion by investing in your first electric toothbrush. By spending your money on one of the leading brands, and these aren’t always expensive, you will usually find the brush has been made for optimum performance and deep cleaning. By spending a bit more you may get some neat features and add ons such as external display units but at the end of the day the main concern is that it gives your teeth a good clean.

A fairly common problem for many people is that they simply do not brush for long enough which means they miss parts and sometimes only brush for barely 30 seconds. Dentists recommend that you brush for a full 2 minutes. You will be able to tell with most electric ones when you have brushed for long enough, such as an Oral B electric toothbrush and they will either pulsate or show visually when you have reach the recommended time..

Be certain that you make sure that the model you want to buy also comes with a rechargeable battery pack. Nowadays, most of them do and it makes sure that you are never caught short with no spare batteries.

(Typically~Usually~Normally}, when brushing for the above recommended duration it should last about 1 – 4 before you will need to charge it again but you can also leave it on charge for good if it suits you.

Not only that but many will also come with dual cleaning features. This is usually done by a head that can rotate in both directions, aided by the user guiding it around their teeth and gumline or from the type of bristles in the head; some will contain more than one type of bristle to make sure every part or your mouth is cleaned thoroughly.

Dont forget that many will also let you buy replacement heads so you only need to pay for the unit once. You can also get different styles of head for the unit such as whitening and polishing, so you can have a fully clean mouth each and every day.

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Before using Glister, I was using Colgate from time immemorial. Later, I tried Close-up but didn?t like it. Tried Pepsodant for a brief period, but the taste of the paste, not a good feeling, remained in the mouth till the breakfast was over.
 
Then I came across Glister, which was recommended by a friend. Ahay! At last I have found the right toothpaste. I am using it for the last 22 months with great satisfaction. It leaves a minty flavour and the breath is fresh for many hours.

You get the real taste of coffee/tea after a brush with Glister. Glister is gentler on teeth than others. I think the flouride content is very optimal.

Of course, the price seems to be more at Rs.109/- (MRP). However, this is not really so when you look into the details. You need to use only 1/3 quantity of the requirement of other pastes as Glister is concentrated (contains less of water). You can wet it underneath the tap to get the required quantity. Thus, one tube of Glister lasts for 2-1/2 to 3 months for a family of 4 @ single use per day.

Not recommended for children below 2 years unless the doctor okays. Also not recommended for people having teeth which are supported only by the tartars. Furthermore, persons having ceramic filling should not use this as the filling gets disturbed.

I would strongly recommend this to anyone to try it out for at least one month with open mind.

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A lot of myths exist in relation to bleeding gums. You could have observed that brushing as well as flossing too much might instigate the gums to bleed, and possibly using oral treatments such as teeth whitening procedures could result in this problem. Just seeing that your gums bleed any time you’re brushing or flossing, however, does not mean that they are literally the reason of your bleeding gums.

Bleeding gums can be because of several concerns, even teeth whitening products. However, they are apparently often a result of plaque which forms upon your teeth, chiefly around the gum line. Brushing and flossing are actually imperative, and actually help eradicate this plaque. On the other hand, for quite a few people, brushing and flossing, even if together with typical expert cleanings, are not adequate enough. Whether you see yourself still getting bleeding gums even though your oral health ritual is extensive, you may be one amongst countless people that need an antibacterial product to more completely take out the bacteria which is lurking in the mouth.

Anti-bacterial solutions tend to be essential as they’re the ones which help in controlling oral bacteria. Products including teeth whitening

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The number of dental implant treatments increases annually. Dental implants are manufactured by competing companies. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis have shown a clear association between pharmaceutical industry funding of clinical trials and pro-industry results. So far, the impact of industry sponsorship on the outcomes and conclusions of dental implant clinical trials has never been explored. The aim of the present study was to examine financial sponsorship of dental implant trials, and to evaluate whether research funding sources may affect the annual failure rate.

A systematic approach was used to identify systematic reviews published between January 1993 and December 2008 that specifically deal with the length of survival of dental implants. Primary articles were extracted from these reviews. The failure rate of the dental implants included in the trials was calculated. Data on publication year, Impact Factor, prosthetic design, periodontal status reporting, number of dental implants included in the trials, methodological quality of the studies, presence of a statistical advisor, and financial sponsorship were extracted by two independent reviewers (kappa = 0.90; CI95%

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Diagnodent is another product of science and technology that focuses on finding and treating tooth decay. Diagnodent is a tool that can even detect decays so small that they are not even visible yet. With this, small and starting dental problems are treated early and prevented to turn into severe health issues that require complicated and even more costly procedures.

Since diagnodent is new to the public, people have a lot of questions about it. The following are the more frequent ones being asked, enlisted below with the answers.

No, diagnodent does not include procedures that will make a patient experience pain. It features a similar energy level to a laser pointer. The laser beam or energy emitted by this tool is completely harmless to the tissues around inside the mouth.

First, the tool should be calibrated. Second, teeth should be clean. Teeth are scanned using the laser beam emitted by this tool which is harmless. The cavities are identified by the read-out in digital form produced by the countertop unit. The degree of decay within the tooth is defined by the amount of fluorescent the machine detected.

- How long does this dental procedure technique take?

Scanning will only take a few minutes, and that’s just it.

- What does the tool actually measure?

Diagnodent measures the fluorescence within a tooth. When the laser beam is used to scan teeth, a two-way optical hand piece quantifies the reflected light energy from the laser. Diagnodent is used with a specific wavelength. Using this, a healthy clean tooth will reflect very little fluorescence (or none at all) and the fluorescent signify readings on the display.

- What are the benefits of diagnodent to a dental patient?

Decays are detected earlier. This will keep new decays from developing into more complicated dental problems. This will reduced the amount of money one will need in keeping his or her oral health in good condition.

- Is it effective with composite resin restorations?

No. Composite resin restorations fluoresce.

- Is it effective with amalgam?

Diagnodent will provide an accurate reading when used with caries at the margin.

- Can diagnodent be used on primary teeth?

Yes. Diagnodent is both accurate in detecting decays in permanent and even primary teeth.

- What are the disadvantages of the conventional dental methods?

Traditional techniques in finding and treating decays are not that much effective in detecting decays. These methods may even not detect 50% of the decays.

- How long has this technology been around?

Europe has been using this device for quite a few years now. The FDA recently approved the dentists of using laser-using tools for detecting cavities in the United States.

- Where do most tooth decays start nowadays?

Today, these mostly start in areas that are hard to see. They start in valleys and canyon-like parts of the surface of the teeth.

- Why are pit and valley cavity detection given more importance today than before?

The use of fluoride in toothpastes and water has strengthened the teeth enamel. Teeth have become more resistant to damage. However, the pits and valleys are not much protected.

- Why are conventional techniques like x-rays not effective in seeing the cavities in the pits and valleys?

Pits and valleys are hidden from direct views of the dentists. Even with the use of x-rays, these parts are hidden from the direction where the images are taken from.

- With today’s presence of diagnodent, are x-rays still important?

Diagnodent is for finding cavities on the teeth surface we use for biting. X-rays are tools for finding cavities on the roots and in between teeth.

- Why should we be concerned with sides of our teeth that we cannot see?

Decays progressed. They are not always detectable, especially at the start. Even while decay is still a mild problem, it will progress and may penetrate inward. If not given attention, this will eventually lead to decays that destroy teeth from the inside out.

- Why are dental probes not enough to find cavities in pits and valleys?

Probes may appear too large to detect the certain cavities. It may be due to the location of the cavity or it may be because the cavity is newly formed and too small. Detection of cavities in pits and valleys is difficult also because tooth surface usually appears intact.

The above answers the questions most frequently asked. If still unsure, it is best to consult with a dentist who has experienced using diagnodent.

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A semi-casual Tony Blair stares out from the cover of his autobiography, The Journey, which is due to be published this September.

Dressed in a black open-necked shirt, his piercing blue eyes lock onto the passer-by like laser-guided missiles.

The image portrays a self-confident, middle-aged man who – if we didn’t know better – could be anything from a successful European lawyer, a member of a 70s prog-rock band or a perma-tanned TV personality.

All careers that might well have crossed the ex-prime minister’s mind at some point during his life.

And the choice of this image, the styling and the crop is not flippant. Hours, days and quite probably weeks will have been spent choosing the cover image for a book that pundits think will be the biggest-selling political memoir since Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street Years.

Never-judge-a-book-by-its-cover is a cliche that has at its root an anti-superficiality message. But the truth is that publishers and authors do want us to judge a book by its cover, otherwise they would simply produce books wrapped in block colours to denote a genre.

At a talk I recently attended by Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer, he explained that not only did he personally source and choose the cover image for his new book, The Museum of Innocence, he also rolled up his sleeves, switched on his computer and spent many hours on Photoshop to create what he felt was the perfect visual metaphor for his novel.

Book cover design is an artistic practice that goes back centuries and includes the illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages.

But it is in the 20th Century with the emergence of the professional graphic designer in concert with mass-market publishing that the visual language of book cover design has found a place in everyday life.

One pioneer was the great publisher Allen Lane, who founded Penguin. Design writer and critic, Phil Baines, wrote an excellent illustrated book published in 2005 called Penguin by Design.

It shows and tells a compelling story of modern graphic design, which really only got truly underway at Penguin when they acknowledged the importance of cover design by appointing Germano Facetti as the full-time Cover Art Director.

But even before that Penguin had the aesthetic sensibility to employ the great modernist typographer and designer Jan Tschichold to help them bring some design rigour to their books, which were already well known for their distinctive branding.

The ensuing Penguin Book covers now have a significant part in the history of graphic design.

And as from the 17 April the publishers Faber and Faber will be mounting an exhibition at London’s V&A museum where they will, “put on display items from its historic archive in a display describing its dedication to book design.”

It will be interesting to see what the future holds for book design as we move towards a digital age in book publishing. It is easy to imagine a digital version of the book cover with a groovy 3D image that animates like a movie.

But then again, Stefan Sagmeister sort of did that with his Booth-Clibborn editions book in 2001. That was a good cover.

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