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Noam Chomsky Series Design by David Pearson

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Designer David Pearson has created some rather nice typographic covers for the UK editions of Noam Chomsky available from UK publisher Pluto Press.

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In addition to the talented Mr. Pearson, Pluto Press’s design manager Melanie Patrick kindly let me know that the publisher is currently working with designers such as David Drummond, David Gee, Jamie Keenan, Dan Mogford, and Jarrod Taylor. You can see some of the results on their new Tumblr Pluto Press Covers, including this slick (ba-dum ching!) cover for the forthcoming Artwash by Mel Evans, designed by Mr. Keenan:

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Book Cover Design on Tumblr

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There is a Casual Optimist Tumblr as you know, but I don’t post a lot of new book covers there. Fortunately there are other Tumblrs that do focus on book cover design if that’s your thing. Here are a few that I follow:

 

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Book Covrs (pictured above: Trying Not To Try by Edward Slingerland; design by Gray318)

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Booketing (pictured above: One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper; design by Jim Tierney)

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CMYK  / Vintage Books (pictured above: The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman; design by Julia Connolly)

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HarperCollins Design (pictured above: Treachery by S. J. Parris; design by Alexandra Allden, illustration by Daren Newman)

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Penguin Design (Pictured above: The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck; design by Jim Stoddart)

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Random House Art Department (pictured above: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; design by Eric White)

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Verso Covers (pictured above: The Oil Road by James Marriott and Mike Mino-Paluello; design by Alex Merto)

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There are also several book designers who are on Tumblr in their own right. Here are some that use it showcase their work: Robin Bilardello, David Gee, Kimberly Glyder, Greg Heinimann, James Paul Jones, Oliver Munday, and Stephanie Ross. (Pictured above: The Tin Horse by Janice Steinberg; design by Kimberly Glyder)

Who am I missing? Let me know what book design Tumblrs you follow!

(Pictured top: The Quick by Lauren Owen, illustration by Jim Kay, taken from Vintage UK’s CMYK Tumblr)

Update:

Two I missed…

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Hey, Good Bookin’ (pictured above: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle; design by Timothy Goodman)

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Lovely Bookcovers (pictured above: Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan; design by Leo Nickolls)

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Design is Fine


Design is Fine. History is Mine, an eclectic design history blog compiled by Rea Riegel, a copy writer and lecturer from Germany, is one of my favourite new Tumblrs. Go take a look.

(Pictured above: Pierre Reverdy and Pablo Picasso Le chants des morts, 1948)

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Meanwhile, Elsewhere…

As is probably obvious, I spend a lot of time online clicking on stuff.

The things I bookmark, tag, and mentally store away that are (vaguely) about books end up here in one form or another.

But because I have eclectic interests, I bookmark a lot of photographs, illustrations, videos, and other things that just don’t have place on The Casual Optimist.

I’ve been mostly collecting these together in a digital scrapbook at Image Spark.

Image Spark has a really useful bookmarking plugin for Firefox so it’s easy to use and I really like it — despite it’s occasional  slowness.

But whilst Image Spark is great for me, I don’t think it’s so good for sharing.

I tried Tumblr and discovered I didn’t particularly like it (no offensive Tumblr — it’s not you, it’s me… Well, it’s a little bit you…), and so I have switched (at Ehren‘s suggestion) to Posterous which has a neat bookmarklet that makes it incredibly easy to post things when you see them.

So The Accidental Optimist is up and running. It’s just images and videos that I’ve stumbled upon. There’s links and tags but no commentary.

Inevitably there is some overlap with my Image Spark stuff but I don’t post everything to both, and I think the new blog will take on a personality of its own.

Anyway, like The Casual Optimist, it’s a work in progress, only it’s not about books (or anything really — which breaks about a bazillion rules of blogging).

Recent posts include a photograph of World War II airplanes in Texas, a bonkers animated music video by Mcbess and an Eric Gill quotation, so — as I say – eclectic. But maybe you’re interested? OK, maybe not…

(You can also find me — grumpy and misanthropic — on the Twitter if you care to)

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