M.S. Corley redesigned the covers for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy (still haven’t read the third one yet, how’d that happen?) to resemble Penguin Classic covers. You’ll have to head over to his site to see his sublime work on the other two. I hadn’t realized that the first book was called The Northern [...]
In some instances you can judge a book by its cover. Or at least you can judge how much care and attention to detail went into putting a book together. Book cover art is a form that is often overlooked and little about the artists behind them are unknown. But like anything it too deserves [...]
George Orwell’s seminal novels 1984 and Animal Farm get redesigned covers courtesy of artist Shepard Fairey [OBEY]. If these covers don’t make kids want to read the books, I don’t know what will. Other than teachers forcers them to read them and love them and take umbrage against the state. From the Penguin Blog: This [...]
