These are a few of my favorite things..

Books & logos.
The combination thereof is almost enough to send me into a fit.

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In order of appearance:
- Alber, Book store, Eugen & Max Lenz
- Textbooks.com, Werner Design Works
- Trees For Life, Gardner Design
- Explosive Technology, Saul Bass
- Gotham Books, Eric Baker
- Simon & Schuster, Prejean Creative
- Imperial Books, Designer unknown
- Asian Arts Publishing Group, Tnop™ Design
- Fleming H Revell Publishing, Wages Design
- Educational Development Corporation, Designer unknown.

(You have no idea how hard it was to not rip off Werner Design Werks and that last one for the BCA non-existent logo. No. Idea.)

October 21st, 2009 by Pieratt

16 Responses to “These are a few of my favorite things..”

  1. JR says:
    October 21, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Wink’s mark for Target’s Bookmarked is another smart book-centric logo.

    http://www.wink-mpls.com/work.php?catXML=5

  2. Helen says:
    October 21, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    That Saul Bass logo looks suspiciously like double the ConEd logo. Suspicious of the ConEd, not Saul Bass.

  3. ian shimkoviak says:
    October 21, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    wonderful marks.

  4. adam gf says:
    October 22, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Love the Gotham Books logo. Very elegant and clever. Always the simplest of concepts well executed that work out best.

  5. TonyA says:
    October 22, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Agree, the Gotham Books one blows me away, but does it look to anybody else like the text is a little too far over to the left? Could be an optical illusion with where the words break… could be that I’m wrong!

  6. TonyA says:
    October 22, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Also judging by their Facebook page, Gotham Books logo has been updated and I think unfortunately they’ve taken a step backwards in terms of having trust in their audience’s intelligence.

  7. stefan hartwig says:
    October 22, 2009 at 11:35 am

    These are really lovely. I would like to thank Eric Baker for not using Gotham on the Gotham Books logo. Ha!

  8. Anne says:
    October 22, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    The Beacon Press logo is nice because it looks like a the rays shining out from a beacon and also an open book: http://www.beacon.org/ It’s not as Cool as some of these, though.

  9. LIsa Prejean says:
    October 23, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    We’re honored that you included the logo we created for Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions imprint with these wonderful marks. Thank you.

  10. General Projects Blog » Blog Archive » Books & Logos says:
    October 26, 2009 at 11:50 am

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  11. Monday Miscellany, October 26th, 2009 | The Casual Optimist says:
    October 26, 2009 at 8:09 pm

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  12. Stephen Coles says:
    November 10, 2009 at 12:54 am

    Umm, the “Trees for Life” logo reappeared here. Copy or original?

  13. NEUES VON FREUNDEN at in|ad|ae|qu|at says:
    December 7, 2009 at 3:19 am

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    March 23, 2010 at 9:36 am

    love this page!

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    May 10, 2010 at 5:28 pm

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