January 16, 2012
These stunning Michael Chabon covers are the work of Oregon-based designer Connie Gabbert. Although evocative in some way of faded ink, old-time letterpress, silkscreened posters and linocuts illustrations, interestingly these designs will never see actually see print themselves. Connie knew from the start that they would be e-books and would not go to press, but [...]
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November 9, 2011
Expanded Original — Geoff Dyer, author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, on Penguin Modern Classics and the paintings used on their covers: The use of different paintings meant each book was a “modern classic” in its own particular way. A side effect was that books I was reading for an education in literature [...]
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