Book Cover Archive blog

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.

Quick, someone use this on something. A collage of fireworks compiled from over 50 photos

Love this artist series from the Creative Superstore. Illustrations by Ed Templeton, Tim Biskup, Cleon Peterson, Marke Newton, Deedee Cheriel and Ramsey Dau.

20×200 will be selling a print by book cover designer (among other things) Stefanie Posavec later today.

A Literary Organism was first used in a project where I explored methods of visualizing the writing style of Jack Kerouac in On the Road. For this piece, I analyzed Benjamin’s essay for word count per sentence and by themes within its structure, and I did it all by hand. Some people knit, I enjoy the act of painstakingly analyzing text with a pen and a highlighter, as to me, the process of gathering the data is as equally important as the visual outcome.

The print will be available in a few hours, with a special coupon code embedded somewhere in 20×200′s mailing list.

The print:

Some more of Posavec’s work:

Have a nice weekend