Book Cover Archive blog

Frankenfont

Eric Jacobsen — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:36:51 +0000

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 Times New Roman, and by the end of the book is nearly incoherent.

Magnifying glass not included

Eric Jacobsen — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:30:57 +0000

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 per square centimeter.

Also available: Faust, Das Kapital, and Macbeth as a spreadsheet.

Book design by the linear foot

Eric Jacobsen — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:45:39 +0000

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 discarded books. Be sure to see the slideshow for detailed shots.

* (Shame on the NYT for the lazy “___ a Book By Its Cover” headline.)

From the desk of Peter Mendelsund

Pieratt — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:11:13 +0000

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 of photos with captions over at fromyourdesks.com/

*Hat-tip to Peter Terzian

Pieratt — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:36:07 +0000

Pieratt — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:31:42 +0000

Pieratt — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:10:07 +0000

(apologies for the total lack of designer credits on this post.)

C O D E X

Pieratt — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:03:36 +0000

this would be a swell Halloween costume

Eric Jacobsen — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:44:12 +0000

From a Penguin Malaysia “Unputdownable” ad campaign, via This Isn’t Happiness

John Gall, The Design Bureau

Pieratt — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:09:17 +0000

“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 boys,”

Nice interview with a man at the top of his game. Most of it is related to the Nabokov series. If I were a famous book cover designer, I think I’d just flat out refuse to answer any questions related to e-books at this point. Nothing wrong with the topic, of course, but it must get intensely tiresome.

And for what it’s worth, having stopped by his office on a handful of occasions, I can attest to the fact that he really does dress this well.