The Frankenfont Project is a limited edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein assembled from various PDF files found on the Internet. The book starts “coherently” in a mix of Helvetica, Arial, and Time...
This should have turned out tacky as hell, but I think jewelsmith Cheyenne Weil pulled it off: pulp scifi paperback inspired wedding bands.
Came across this peculiar item on Svpply. “How delightful,” I thought, “a smudge.” Not so. A closer look reveals an offset print of Homer’s Iliad, printed at a “resolution” of 30 words pe...
Thatcher Wine is a different kind of book designer. He’s an interiors designer who specializes in filling space with books. Projects include themes, custom dust jackets, and art projects built out of...
I’ve been in Mendelsund’s office a few times, and it is overwhelming. There’s so much amazing work laying around you’re not entirely sure what to do with yourself. See a bunch...
(apologies for the total lack of designer credits on this post.)
From a Penguin Malaysia “Unputdownable” ad campaign, via This Isn’t Happiness
“The re-working, dealing with all the feedback (some warranted, some moronic) ‘make this bigger’, ‘make this smaller’, ‘my psychic thinks it should be blue’—that is what separates the men from the bo...
I’m jealous of whoever winds up with this job. Working under Alex Camlin’s would be an experience. Learn more.
A bit old, but I hadn’t seen this one. Techno Tuesday is the most scathingly wonderful series I’ve come across in a while.
Have a nice weekend.
As you’d expect, I’ve got a search column on TweetDeck for “pieratt”. One of the few advantages of having a weird surname is that most related queries are relevant to my inter...
1928-2010
Important stuff here, folks. Though I don’t want to jinx anything by revealing too much, I’ll probably cast my vote on option #3. The homage to Lady Liberty is well considered, and the li...
I came into contact with Matthias while he was working with Gestalten, the publisher of art and design books, a couple of which I have some work in. Friendly and accommodating with an air of efficien...
A brief presentation that includes a children’s book, some reference stuff, and one piece of fiction (a Twilight knock-off) at 1:30 (courtesy of Engadget). Pretty but reminiscent of mid-ninetie...
We’re considering taking on an intern. Anyone interested? Tasks and responsibilities would include: helping organize the queue of covers, helping find and post work to the site, helping respond...
A handful of exceptionally odd and interesting work in Erin Ikeler’s Flickr stream. Can’t always tell what’s original collage and what’s a found object, which adds to the appe...
More book-art, courtesy of Collider for the Surry Hills Library in Sydney: More pictures and a hat tip to Nerdski.
Life:Size is an art project by Roland Tiangco wherein he is reproducing “everything in our world” at 100% scale. The first volume is an anthropology bookshelf. It includes folds and perfo...
Love this simple book graphic featured in the latest issue of Matériel. Graphic by Steven Reimuth (I’d link to his site but there’s nothing on it.)
I’ve just posted a few thoughts on whether or not it is legitimate to feature advertising the Book Cover Archive. If this topic is of interest to you, head over there and let me know what you t...
I admit I shed a mental tear when YouWorkForThem announced they were killing off its book section for good, so I rejoiced a bit when they released the Book Archive this morning. A massive collection ...
Online Universities(.com) has a post about their favorite covers of all time. Lots of the usual suspects with a few classics interjected here and there.
By Way Shape From, 2006
Lovely new site. Talented SOB.
We added a “random” function to the Archive last week. I have to say that it is pretty glorious.
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