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Vintage Paperback Illustrations

January 19, 2009

What with the inauguration this week it seems awfully quiet on the publishing front right now. Maybe that’s just relative to the economic blitzkrieg that happened before Christmas or my twitchy unease about what horrible surprises 2009 might hold! In any case, I’m going to use the lull as an excuse to post a link [...]

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Penguin on Design

November 18, 2008

Refreshing classic creative texts: Creative Review talks to Penguin’s art director Jim Stoddart about the redesigned and reissued books in the ‘Penguin on Design’ series. The books include Bruno Munari’s 1965 book, Design As Art; Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 The Medium is the Massage; John Berger’s Ways Of Seeing from 1972; and Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay, [...]

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El Anden Thrillers

October 31, 2008

Perhaps TWO posts about beautiful book jackets in one day is too much, but I just adore these gorgeous covers by Cristóbal Schmal:

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Obsessive Cover Design

October 31, 2008

I normally have an aversion to white, grime-attracting covers (it’s the ex-bookseller in me), but I love, love, love this cover for Obsession: A History by Lennard J. Davis, designed by Isaac Tobin (as seen at  The Book Design Blog): It’s another great cover that doesn’t entirely rely on photoshop wizardry – the lettering was [...]

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