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Something for the Weekend

October 8, 2010

More Than Words — Yves Peters takes a typographical look at the winners of British Book Design and Production Awards 2010 for FontFeed. The winners all look wonderful, but, as Peters notes, it is a shame that only the publishers are credited, not the designers of the books. An Archaeology of Business Cards — Penguin [...]

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Coralie Bickford-Smith’s Fitzgeralds

August 5, 2010

Not only does the talented Coralie Bickford-Smith, senior cover designer for Penguin Press, have a spiffy new website, she has also unveiled her stunning metallic cover designs for Penguin’s new editions of  F. Scott Fitzgerald. Coralie is now on Twitter, and you can read my Q & A with her here.

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Penguin RED

May 21, 2010

Penguin Press Art Director and designer Jim Stoddart talks about his design for the (Penguin Classics)RED edition of Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola: Penguin designers Coralie Bickford-Smith and Stefanie Posavec also talk about their designs for series. There’s more information about the videos and the (Penguin Classics)RED editions on the Penguin Blog and you can [...]

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Q & A with Coralie Bickford-Smith, Penguin Press

September 15, 2009

Coralie Bickford-Smith was one of the first book designers I mentioned on The Casual Optimist and her distinctive cover designs have featured regularly ever since. While Coralie’s work for Penguin clearly draws inspiration from the Arts & Crafts Movement and British inter-war illustration and design, it never seems trite or conventional. There is always an [...]

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Something for the Weekend, Feb 21th, 2009

February 21, 2009

Corpoetics — The text from the websites of  “well-known brands and corporations” remixed and rearranged into strangely engaging and enigmatic poetry by Nick Asbury (photo above from Ace Jet 170). I rather like the one taken from Scottish Widows: Here in an Edinburgh coffee house, their futures became history. Meet the latest widow. Copies of [...]

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