Out of Print is a cool business that sells T-shirts and other fashion staples featuring vintage book cover designs. Now, they are branching out into the realm of tablet covers and funding that endeavor through Kickstarter. This project, which seems like a no-brainer, will use the oldest book binder in the country and an MIT [...]
We’ve all heard that old adage about judging books by their covers, but Sunny Chanel did just that with her six-year-old daughter to charming effect. Chanel showed her daughter various books — Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, among others — and asked her [...]
These James Bond book covers were created by Michael Gillette for Penguin’s celebration of author Ian Fleming’s centenary birth year. They look great, unfortunately, they are also really expensive selling for $95 or $225 per print depending on the size. You don’t even want to know how much the print of all 15 covers above [...]
From The Daily What Geeks: Writers Erin Bowman, Sarah Enni and Traci Neithercott have created a series of alternate dust jackets to cover up books from some of literature’s most beloved sci-fi and fantasy books — and Twilight — while sending a “do not disturb” signal to anyone who might be considering interrupting your reading. Messages on the book jackets [...]
The covers of these Kafka books, from Schoken, are fairly superb. There’s this creepy, mind’s eye sort of thing running throughout all the books, with just a hint of the psychedelic. It’s almost as if the paranoia of the state is impugning the individual. But what elevates these editions, are, like all design, the little [...]
The concept of New Cover is simple: Matt Roeser is a graphic designer in St. Louis, Missouri., he reads books and designs new covers for them. And the covers are fairly awesome. What’s nice is that Matt isn’t mining the same “minimalist-retro” territory that other designers of this genre are mining. He’s got a lush, [...]
I don’t think I’ve tired yet of the trend for graphic designers to reinterpret modern pop culture touchstones in a retro bent. The latest example is courtesy of Steven Finch, who’s taken our beloved comic books and turned them into arty dimestore novels. [via]
London compnay, Tank Books, has really done a bang up job, not just with the selection of books, but also in their design to mimic the iconic flip-top cigarette package. The flip-top cigarette pack is one of the most successful pieces of packaging design in history. TankBooks pay homage to this iconic form by employing [...]
“JACKET+BOOKMARK” by Igor Udushlivy. Bookmarks that act as extensions of the book cover image. Simple, beautiful, and useful. Every book should be like this. [via]
Maybe it’s just me but my first thought when seeing this was the exercises in question were related to office sex. The book in question is from 1981. Either way, this is something I would expect to find in my grandma’s attic. [via Lucas]
