Company:
student work
Year:
2025
Duration:
1 week
As part of a typography course assignment, I recreated the cover of Rome: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert (1985 edition). The objective was to produce an exact reproduction of the original cover, focusing on typographic accuracy, spacing, hierarchy, and overall layout.
I focused my attention on the typepography noting the key details that made it unique and different from other roman typefaces. For this project I used Adobe InDesign. After researching I sourced a typeface that closely matched the original, Cooper* by Owen Earl, to accurately recreate the typography in the large text areas. I then reconstructed the hierarchy and carefully adjusted spacing, alignment, proportions, and took into consideration the images and logo to replicate the original publication as closely as possible.
Overview
Design Process

Recreated dust jacket of Rome: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert (1985 edition), reproduced as a typography and layout reconstruction exercise using Adobe InDesign.



















Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original (1985)
Recreated in Adobe InDesign
Original cover design belongs to the publisher. This recreation was produced as an academic typography exercise.









