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Something for the Weekend

March 27, 2010

Sorry (again) for the late (and lack of) posting recently. This week, the BookNet Tech Forum in Toronto kept me out of the office and away from the blog. If you’re interested in the conference, the ACP‘s Sarah Labrie has a great round up of the main day here. But on to the links… Alexander [...]

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10+ Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration

February 22, 2010

“10 Websites for Vintage Books, Covers and Inspiration” is one of the most popular posts on The Casual Optimist, and here, at long last, is the promised follow-up: “10 Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration.” There are a lot of amazing photostreams with book sets – Covers etc, insect54, Kyle Katz, mjkghk, Montague, Paula [...]

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Dan Mogford’s de Bonos

January 28, 2010

Earlier this week, London-based graphic designer Dan Mogford kindly alerted me to a series of fresh Edward de Bono covers he designed for the Penguin UK: At the BPPA book cover panel last night, David Gee was lamenting publishers’ current predilection for blandly neutral Malcolm Gladwell-esque covers for certain kinds of popular nonfiction, and so [...]

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Under the Covers: Reviewing the Covers of 2009

January 27, 2010

Tonight is the BPPA‘s annual review of the best and worst book covers of the year. Sadly Alan Jones, Senior Designer at HarperCollins Canada, had to drop out at the last minute and is being replaced by Boy Wonder David A. Gee (interviewed here) and umm… me. No, I’m not quite sure what they were [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

January 20, 2010

Catcher in the Rye — Illustration and hand-lettering by Toronto-based Darren Booth (self-directed project). Darren has done a rather fine Lord of the Flies cover as well. The Catastrophist — Chris Hitchens on J.G. Ballard in The Atlantic: For most of his life, our great specialist in catastrophe made his home in the almost laughably [...]

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