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Aug 06, 2010
Aug 02, 2010
Ladies and gentleman, Better Book Titles.
This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in merely seconds!
Thanks, Maris!
Jul 09, 2010
“ [A] book design should be inevitable — a book demands its own shape just as an oak sprouts from an acorn and a pine from a cone. A book is a body in which a story lives and breathes, and, like a body, it has a spine, is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, and it isn’t going to go on many dates unless it can hold up its end of the conversation. If it does find its way into our life, a book can also be a companion, and sometimes a life-changing one.
— Chris Ware on the art of book covers [via] cf: John Updike, who claimed he could not begin writing a book until he first imagined its spine, “You can, possibly, tell a book by its cover, but the cover isn’t the contents.” (via bobulate)
Jun 24, 2010
“On A Calm Shore” poems by Frances Cornford, with prints by her son Christopher, 1960
The book used two- and three-colour prints with unusual colour combinations such as light grey with rust red and an inky purple with caramel and lime. Many of the prints used black ink to provide detail and pattern while the coloured layer provided texture and depth.
The book was inspiration for Faber Books’ new poetry hardback series.
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin published Faber Books and illustrated by Michael Kirkman
From a beautiful set of hardback poetry books from Faber Books!!
Mar 09, 2010
Mar 02, 2010
Cover of THE SECRET AGENT by Coralie Bickford-Smith (via Creative Review - Penguin Classics team up with (RED) for typographic covers)
Somebody’s been reading A Humument…I like it.
Jan 05, 2010
Almost Silent by Jason
Fantagraphics is so smart for simply taking good, clean photos (and video!) of their books and putting them on Flickr. Why every publisher isn’t doing this totally baffles me.
Jan 04, 2010
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