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

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 [...]

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PKD Documentary

October 15, 2010

After mentioning Philip K. Dick earlier this week, it only seems appropriate to post A Day In The Afterlife, a 1994 BBC documentary about the author: (via Largehearted Boy | Open Culture)

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Midweek Miscellany

May 19, 2010

90 Covers — David McCandless talks about the protracted cover design process for his new book Information is Beautiful (via This Isn’t Happiness): Engage — Online literary magazine and short fiction hub Joyland – founded by authors Brian Joseph Davis and Emily Schultz — is launching an e-book imprint. Graphic Novels for Booksellers — A [...]

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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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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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