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 Measurecover of French Edition of John Steinbeck's The Pearlcover for Fictive edition, 2006Illustration for “Thomas More, l'Utopie” Illustration for Howler magazine, first issue. “The play's the Thing. How soccer imitates art.”More at Polanco's website, In Melancholia
The Smiths on the shelf
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 of the other influential bands of that time Standard Designs also serves up some Joy Division and New Order.Previously on Book Patrol: Christophe Gowans: One for The Record Books
Personalized Pulp
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 generatorThanks to Booklicious for the lead
Fahrenheit 451 with a match
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
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 -AbsintheMore of Borghesi's Charles Bukowski Book Series here