lotta nieminen's concept and design of the University of Art and Design Helsinki's weekly calendar for 2007. In collaboration with Jenni Erkintalo, Emil Bertell, Fredrika Biström, Sami Perttilä and Päivi Tuominen. 2006
I've been finding myself increasingly disinterested in album artwork and posters and web design and it's books that I most often go "Oooh" at.
I wonder if it's because it's perhaps the final remaining media that we still walk into a shop and browse for. When was the last time anyone bought an album because they liked the looks of the sleeve? It's been a good few years for me.
that's quite an interesting take, stuart. i think you could well be on to something there.
i quite like newspaper design, too. though, they all tend to get very samey - as one forges ahead, others follow, and then they all go and spoil it with ads and shit anyway.
book covers, pretty permanent, and often on display in your homes - not much else is (other than furniture and art, but those already hold loftier positions in 'design').
Stuart said...Book cover design is what it's at (dude)!
I've been finding myself increasingly disinterested in album artwork and posters and web design and it's books that I most often go "Oooh" at.
I wonder if it's because it's perhaps the final remaining media that we still walk into a shop and browse for. When was the last time anyone bought an album because they liked the looks of the sleeve? It's been a good few years for me.
I love book cover design too. I think one of the things I like about it, is that as books become historical, in either a major or minor way, you also then get to see them re-imagined by a designer.
peak said... I love book cover design too. I think one of the things I like about it, is that as books become historical, in either a major or minor way, you also then get to see them re-imagined by a designer.
It's weird isn't it, this rigidity of design as regards to albums and the reinterpretation allowed by books. One can be seen as a triumphant re-contextualising and the other is seldom seen as anything other than sacrilege.
Between the striking bold design by the legendary Massimo Vignelli, the photography by equally heroic Herbert Matter, the iconic graphics also by Matter, the oversize format (11½” x 11½”) plus the amazing content, this hardback catalog/book is a real beauty.
PenguinTo mark the 70th anniversary of the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Penguin Classics have published a stunning new hardback series of his works. The series comprises of his five generation-defining novels; The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Last Tycoon and The Beautiful and Damned as well as Flappers and Philosophers, Fitzgerald’s collected short stories.
These sumptuous new editions are all beautifully styled with art deco patterning on elegant foil jackets, each complete with matching bookmark.
The design team at Penguin chose 6 tattooers to help them with the project. The chosen artists include Duncan X, Han van de Sluys, Judd Ripley, Lynn Akura, Russ Abbott and Valerie Vargas.
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lotta nieminenn (did the logo)
pierattt'd
shepard fairey redsigns a couple of book covers
Illustrator Jim Tierney redesigns Jules Verne, complete with hand-lettering for his student thesis project.
lotta nieminen's concept and design of the University of Art and Design Helsinki's weekly calendar for 2007. In collaboration with Jenni Erkintalo, Emil Bertell, Fredrika Biström, Sami Perttilä and Päivi Tuominen. 2006
I've been finding myself increasingly disinterested in album artwork and posters and web design and it's books that I most often go "Oooh" at.
I wonder if it's because it's perhaps the final remaining media that we still walk into a shop and browse for. When was the last time anyone bought an album because they liked the looks of the sleeve? It's been a good few years for me.
Nicko's last post is very inspiring.
i quite like newspaper design, too. though, they all tend to get very samey - as one forges ahead, others follow, and then they all go and spoil it with ads and shit anyway.
book covers, pretty permanent, and often on display in your homes - not much else is (other than furniture and art, but those already hold loftier positions in 'design').
Penguin Books Flickr Set
Hans Schmoller, Romek Marber and more...
also, related: 2011 is the 50th anniversary of Penguin Modern Classics
knoll exhibition catalogue paris 1972 design
Between the striking bold design by the legendary Massimo Vignelli, the photography by equally heroic Herbert Matter, the iconic graphics also by Matter, the oversize format (11½” x 11½”) plus the amazing content, this hardback catalog/book is a real beauty.
Penguin UK has redesigned the covers of six British classics.
The design team at Penguin chose 6 tattooers to help them with the project. The chosen artists include Duncan X, Han van de Sluys, Judd Ripley, Lynn Akura, Russ Abbott and Valerie Vargas.
ludicrously awesome book cover designs for f. scott fitzgerald books by london-based designer sinem erkas
and more - http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/redesigning-the-bible-with-a-typographic-twist/3038519.article
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A book owned by Harvard University has been bound in human skin, scientists believe.
Des destinees de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s.
Writer Arsene Houssaye is said to have given the book to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, in the mid-1880s.
Dr Bouland then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female mental patient who had died of natural causes.
http://www.designweek.co.uk/we-like/penguin-book-cover-iamges-that-recall-the-publishers-subversive-past/3039049.article
huge collection of quite cool covers - https://www.flickr.com/photos/23473719@N08/with/8382477738/