The Casual Optimist

Books, Design & Culture

August 27, 2010
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Something for the Weekend

Hornby Cover Versions — Some rather beautiful student work by Barcelona-based graphic designer Lucía Castro (although my inner-bookseller gets very twitchy at the thought of those soft off-white covers!). (via Cosa Visuales) Full of Refusals — Tom McCarthy interviewed for … Continue reading

June 17, 2009
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Midweek Miscellany, June 17th, 2009

Claustrophobic and Irrational — I love these elegantly understated designs by Rodrigo Corral and Christopher Brand Jason Ramirez for Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley books published by W.W. Norton. A Strategy For Authenticity — Don Linn, prolific Twitterer and publisher at The … Continue reading

March 24, 2009
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1/3 Alligator: The Book Cover Archive Q & A

Lauded and linked to by everyone from The Guardian newspaper to the New Yorker blog (not to mention the really important folks like Drawn!,  Kottke, We Made This,  and Veer)  the dazzling The Book Cover Archive is — as the … Continue reading