Penguin Book Cover Design

October 24, 2006 10:08 AM

Penguin Books is an all too brief Flickr Photoset of Penguin Book cover designs from decades past. For those interested, this book is highly recommended.
posted by jonson (9 comments total)

More discussion.
posted by NationalKato at 10:29 AM on October 24, 2006

Deja vu. I was the first comment in NationalKato's linked thread - at the risk of repeating myself, "Penguin by design" is an awesome book. If you're a Penguinoholic like me, how can you be without?

/not employed by Penguin
posted by stinkycheese at 10:47 AM on October 24, 2006

Cool! I have some of those...and some they don't. My favorite covers of all are by Signet, like this 1984.
posted by taosbat at 11:55 AM on October 24, 2006

I was pleased when I posted the thread linked to by NationalKato that there were other Penguin lovers (so to speak) here - and even more pleased that some more pictures have been dug out. These are great - this is my favorite so far. (Although this one hasn't dated much, either).

On a different note, paging PenguinBukkake, paging PenguinBukkake...
posted by greycap at 12:01 PM on October 24, 2006

Those are great. I thought I was the only one who loved those retro paperback covers.
posted by jayder at 2:09 PM on October 24, 2006

What I would love to know is who the artists were. The artists who did these covers were brilliant.
posted by jayder at 2:18 PM on October 24, 2006

I love the Penguin Classics range; they look great together on bookshelf.
posted by oxford blue at 4:29 PM on October 24, 2006

Incidentally, the new Graphics Classics series of Penguin books is spectacular.
posted by pokermonk at 4:56 PM on October 24, 2006

Gorgeous!
posted by oxford blue at 6:15 PM on October 24, 2006