“How to Design a Cover in 1:55 seconds”

The Creative Director of Orbit Books, Lauren Panepinto, shows the time consuming process of designing a book cover in a time-lapse video and offers additional comments on the project.

book sculptures and photography by Paul Octavious
(discovered via swissmiss, photo above via Paul Ocatavious)

“Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance To Print”
(via NYT’s Bits Blog, images larger via Craig Mod’s “Books in the age of the iPad”)

introducing the new Penguin Classics: the RED series

“Penguin has collaborated with AIDS awareness fund (RED) and a team of designers to produce new covers for eight Penguin Classics. Each cover replaces the usual black band with red, employing a quote from the text of the book as the visual hit..”
—more on CR blog

(discovered via Creative Review, above design by Gray318)

Christoph Niemann’s I LEGO N.Y. book

discovery at the bookstore:

This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
by Marilyn Johnson

hand-lettering and illustration by Ross MacDonald
jacket design by Milan Bozic

Green Marker sticky bookmarks designed by yuruliku
(first discovered via noquedanblogs.com)

The poster for Diary of a Wimpy Kid made me laugh. A trailer for the film adaptation has been added on Apple trailers.

“Meet the kid who made “wimpy” cool, in a family comedy based on the best—selling illustrated novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, the first in a series that has thus far sold 24 million copies. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID chronicles the adventures of wise—cracking middle school student Greg Heffley, who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone’s life: middle school.” —synopsis on Apple

“First with the last news” illustration by TB Antoni, featured in the Graphis Annual 60/61
(discovered via sandiv999)

redesignrelated:

Jim Tierney has finished more illustrative designs for his ambitious Senior Thesis Project of redesigning Jules Verne book classics. We were impressed when we saw earlier versions of the cover designs. Now that the full packages are revealed (complete with interactive parts), we are blown away. Jim Tierney is working towards a BFA in Illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

photos of Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1962 Box Set
(via fantagraphics)

everybell:

Via ajourneyroundmyskull:

Carlo Farneti, book cover illustration for Carlos de Lazerme, La Veuve de Minuit. Found while putting together this post of Farneti’s Fleurs du Mal illustrations.

beautiful. a collection of spreads from antique Klinkhardt book c. 1890
(via :nike on flickr)

“…Soviet-era children’s book series features George Kovenchuk’s
1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky…”
(via A Journey Round My Skull)