Titanic
Book design, cartography and illustration for Seafarer Books / Rowman & Littlefield
Book design, cartography and illustration for Seafarer Books / Rowman & Littlefield
The 2012 centenary of the Titanic disaster may at times have seemed to generate bulkhead-to-bulkhead media fixation on the story, but this account is of particular interest. John Lang, a former Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents in the UK, and a professional seaman with long career both in merchant shipping and in the Royal Navy, has used his experience to re-examine the evidence presented to the original Inquiry, and to report on it in the manner of a present-day accident report. Focused on the central questions, why did the collision with the iceberg occur, and why did so many people die, he considers the manifold contributory causes with a fresh eye. Celebrity passengers have little place in this story, but he reconsiders dispassionately whether the captains of the Titanic and the Californian (the nearest ship at the time of the collision) were as culpable as posterity has held them to be, given the practices and standards of the time.
The design brief, for Seafarer books (UK) and Rowman & Littlefield (USA), included the cover design and illustration, the page layout and a series of maps, charts and diagrams.
The design brief, for Seafarer books (UK) and Rowman & Littlefield (USA), included the cover design and illustration, the page layout and a series of maps, charts and diagrams.
