Emmanuel Polanco April 17, 2013

French artist Emmanuel Polanco has been involved in some pretty cool projects. From his clean book cover designs to designing the posters for the Royal Shakespeare Company to illustrating the booklet for the United States Postal Service’s Commemorative Edition of the Edgar Allan Poe stamp. His work leans surreal and offers a fresh perspective for these classic works. for the Royal Shakespeare Company 2011/2012 production of Measure for Measure cover of French Edition of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl…

The Smiths on the shelf April 2, 2013

It seems like the taking of one art form and reimagining and repackaging it as another is all the rage these days. Christoph Gowan is probably the best known artist in this genre for his ongoing series The Record Book.Now thanks to Standard Designs in London I get to see how my favorite band looks in books. They have transformed the four studio albums released by The Smiths into shelf candy. Wow!and if you like some…

Personalized Pulp March 6, 2013

Welcome to the PULP-O-MIZER where, thanks to Bradley W. Schenk, you too can join the annals of pulp cover history. Screenshot There are plenty of design and text options and if you’re happy with your creation you have the opportunity to merchandise the pants off it. Here’s what the t-shirt would look like: WARNING! This could be a time vampire, proceed accordingly. PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator Thanks to Booklicious for the lead

Fahrenheit 451 with a match March 4, 2013

Check out this cover design for Ray Bradbury’s classic, Fahrenheit 451. It was done for The Austin Creative Department by Elizabeth Perez. The match lives in the 1 and the spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface. A incendiary copy! Wow. For Perez it is actually a redesign of this earlier cover:

Bukowski in a bottle February 6, 2013

For his final project for a typography class Valentino Borghesi choose four books from the Bukowski canon and hand wrote the titles inside the shape of a different shaped bottle. The books: – Notes of a Dirty Old Man.– Tales of Ordinary Madness.– Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts.– Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. The bottles: -Whiskey -Rum -Wine -Absinthe More of Borghesi’s Charles Bukowski Book Series here