At night the books from the shelves of Type bookstore in Toronto come to life in a fun, stop-motion animated video.
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Entries tagged “covers”
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
Ghostly Sounds (Power Records)
vintage book covers on shelf transformed into stop-motion love story
Filmmaker Spike Jonze worked with handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan and director Simon Cahn to create Mourir Auprès de Toi. The end result is a beautiful stop motion animated short film set inside the Shakespeare & Company book shop in Paris.
“Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers…” —Nowness
There is a video that gives a peak behind the scenes of making Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side).
Can you spot the Alvin Lustig inspired dust jacket design on the book shelf?
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
book cover design by Josef Čapek for Perch by Emil Vachek
(rediscovered via 50 Watts via Čapek’s Bookshelf)
Final outcome for Interweb project- metaphor for the Kindle. There are 40 little books inside.
25 vintage book covers from Turkey (above Turhan 62 cover via 50 Watts)
Czech book cover designs by Vladimir Fuka, c. 1960s
(first discovered via bustbright)
