“Restyling the Classics: Don’t Judge a New Cover by the Old Book”

(via The Atlantic, left cover designed by Alfred Maurer,
right cover designed by Neil Gower)

Logobook

“The monumental archive Houplain amassed is the foundation of this ultimate logo reference guide, featuring approximately 7,000 specimens organized alphabetically, with information about the designers, year of creation, country, brand, and company. Moreover, the book includes an extensive critical essay on brand culture by French philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky, and an introduction by Ludovic Houplain explaining the creation process of the film Logorama, from its inception to its finalization.” —Taschen

book cover design by Dick Bruna, c. 1960

Vogue covers by Parisian artist André Edouard Marty

When I saw a post about “The Art of Vogue Covers,” my eye was first drawn towards the elegant composition and illustration on the July 23, 1930 issue. The seemingly sparse magazine cover makes wonderful use of white space, with subtle smoke travelling upwards to blend softly into the thick, hand-lettered Vogue masthead.

Above is another fashionable Vogue cover with full-bleed art of a woman painting. On this cover from August 1929, “Vogue” looks painted in cursive, with each letter linking to the next without hesitation, one continuous stroke of a brush.

Both covers are by André Edouard Marty. I’m slightly embarrassed that I was unfamiliar with the artist A. E. Marty until today.

(discovered via scans from The Art of Vogue Covers book via Miss Moss)

While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut, book cover design by Lynn Buckley

After Carin Goldberg’s strong, iconic branding system for Vonnegut classics in the late 1980s, it was likely an exciting challenge for a cover designer to repackage the backlist again. Lynn Buckley established a new paperback series design for the books in 2009, which extends to previously unpublished works.

The three volume, Vintage paperback boxed set for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, designed by John Gall, publishes on May 15th, 2012.

coverjunkie:

Metropoli (Spain)

New La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish newspaper El Mundo 

Ace art direction by Rodrigo Sánchez, read here about his favorite covers on this special Coverjunkie post and here about his exhibition at La Casa Encendida museum last year in Madrid

Vogue magazine cover from April 1944, illustrated by Salvador Dali
(via Modesquisse)

limited edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

“This limited edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 was a collaboration between Kristen Harrison here at The Curved House, Simon Rhodes of Harvill Secker (an imprint of Random House) and designer Stefanie Posavec. The edition was strictly limited to 111 copies signed by the author…” — The Curved House

(via typoretum)

“Happy Halloween from Jive Time Records. See what monsters were lurking in the dark recesses of our record bins.”
—Oldies but Ghoulies, same folks behind Project Thirty-Three

oldiesbutghoulies:

Ghostly Sounds (Power Records)

mid-century album covers designed by George Giusti

(via Aqua-Velvet)

from the desk of…Chip Kidd

Book cover designer Peter Mendelsund interviews Chip Kidd about his work space.

The Atlantic rounds up “A Visual History of Literary References on ‘The Simpsons’,” with help from the Lisa Simpson Book Club