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Entries tagged “classics”
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)
slideshow of The Nabokov Collection (art directed by John Gall), a series of 21 new book covers from prominent designers including Helen Yentus, Chip Kidd, Marian Bantjes, Peter Mendelsund…
(via Design Observer)
Penguin 2.0 lets you personalize a message on the dedication page of a paperback edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Very cool idea. But is this that much better than some good old handwriting?
