Robert (Bob) Scudellari, 88, who was corporate art director at Random House in the 70s and 80s, died on June 3. Scudellari designed books jackets for John Cheever, Toni Morrison, Robert Caro, John le Carré, Anne Rice, and many more, as well as creating the overall design for Random House Modern Library and the black-jacket Library of America line. Erroll McDonald of Knopf said, “He was a lovely and hugely talented man renowned for his signature jacket designs, his enduring typographic branding of authors.”
