One of the highlights of the upcoming movie poster auction at Heritage Auctions is this rare 14" X 36" insert produced for the 1931 film version of Frankenstein. How rare is it?: At last this great poster has surfaced! After 82 years of lying dormant, the Monster has finally arrived in the form of this amazing and stunning insert. For years, collectors have been searching for the lost poster sizes on this immortal and legendary horror classic but to date, only a few one sheets, a single six sheet, a partial half sheet and lobby cards have surfaced! This is the only confirmed...
A [Sad] Future For Bookstores
Check out this comic from Angela Liao over at twenty pixels. It begins with this preface: Reading text lists of titles and gridded book covers images can’t compete with the in-store bookstore experience. There’s something magical about browsing books with your head tilted sideways to read titles on book spines and seeing towering walls of books on shelves. People say that “print is dying” but I hope that some experiences will never change. Dear all bookstores, please don’t die! Neha Prakash at Mashable looks at the other side of the coin and sees it as the beginning of a high-tech makeover for...
Which book species are you?
Infographic by Laura E. Kelly and she shares her process here: The Making of an Infographic
Visualizing Potter: Graphic Art Inspired by Harry Potter
OK Potterities, time for a little eye candy. The Telegraph has gathered a healthy sampling of graphic art inspired by everyone's favorite wizard. Here's a taste of some of the graphic wizardry: This post originally appeared on Book Riot
Finn Dean’s illustrations for ‘Brave New World’ take top prize
Finn Dean has won this year's Book Illustration Competition. The annual event, co-sponsored by the non-profit House of Illustration and The Folio Society, invites artists and illustrators from around the world to focus their energies on illustrating the same book. This year over 500 entrants from 30 countries were asked to illustrate Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World. Deans winning set of illustrations will be published in a new Folio Society edition of Brave New World due out in September. h/t with more photos from the finalists at Creative Review