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Koji Suzuki | Vertical

by Dan on April 28, 2011

After watching Lauren Panepinto’s how-to video yesterday and talking with designer Jacob Covey about op-art book covers, I was reminded of Chip Kidd’s amazing designs for the Vertical editions of Koji Suzuki’s Ring books:

Vertical are apparently releasing Edge by Koji Suzuki this fall with a cover by Peter Mendelsund that sticks with the visual theme of the series:

The design is from a few years ago according to Peter (it still looks fresh to me), but clearly I should have nagged him for a better quality image rather than relying on the internet!

Update: Thanks to Peter for sending me a higher-res cover image for Edge. Beauty.

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If You Haven’t Saved By Now… | Lauren Panepinto

by Dan on April 27, 2011

Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director at Orbit, whose Making of a Book Cover video was such a hit last year, has made a new video about creating the graphic optical illusions she originally intended to use in the design of the Simon Morden’s Equations of Life trilogy:

The no less stunning final covers actually look like this:

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Something for the Weekend

October 22, 2010

Equations — Lauren Panepinto’s stunning op-art covers for a new trilogy of novels by Simon Morden, published by Orbit. From the Orbit blog: These online cover images truly don’t do the packages justice — each book has a single bright colour and in the printed version that will actually be a fluorescent ink. Spot gloss lamination [...]

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How To Design A Cover in 1:55 Seconds

March 9, 2010

Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director at Orbit Books, recently posted this entertaining “Making of the Cover Video” for Gail Carriger‘s Blameless (released in the fall) to the Orbit blog: Over 6 hours of my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing, all condensed down to a slim sexy one minute 55 seconds of cover design. Trust [...]

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