http://www.metafilter.com/tags/graphicdesign+books Posts tagged with 'graphicdesign' and 'books' at MetaFilter. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/87040/Its%2Dreal%2DYou%2Dcan%2Dtouch%2Dit <a href="http://remember-paper.com/">Remember Paper</a> is a blog with photos of interesting magazines, books, and other paper-based ephemera. NSFW. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.87040 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:49:17 -0800 art books design ephemera graphicdesign layout magazines pamphlets paper photography postcards printing You Should See the Other Guy http://www.metafilter.com/85229/Novel%2DGraphics <em>"A few months ago, I got an email from Paul Buckley, the wonderful art director at Penguin Classics, who asked if I wanted to illustrate a book cover for him..."</em> Illustrator Michael Cho <a href="http://chodrawings.blogspot.com/2009/09/penguin-classics-don-delillos-white.html">on designing a cover for Don Delillo's <em>White Noise</em></a> as part of the Penguin Graphic Classics series, in which prominent comic artists and illustrators create covers for literary classics. All the covers can be found in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbuckleydesign/sets/72157621852113991/">this flickr set</a>, including <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbuckleydesign/3799308303/in/set-72157621852113991/">Daniel Clowes’s <em>Frankenstein</em></a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbuckleydesign/3799308403/in/set-72157621852113991/"><em>Candide</em> illustrated by Chris Ware</a>, and Frank Miller's (kind of disappointing) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbuckleydesign/3799308633/in/set-72157621852113991/">cover for <em>Gravity's Rainbow</em></a>. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85229 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:29 -0800 art books chrisware danielclowes frankmiller graphicdesign illustration literature michaelcho penguingraphicclassics dersins http://www.metafilter.com/75582/Rebranding%2Dliterature <a href="http://www.bookninja.com/?p=4600">Cormac McCarthy as “gay porn.”</a> Literary site Bookninja holds a <a href="http://www.bookninja.com/?p=4584" title="Bookninja contest">contest</a> to rebrand literary classics with jarringly (but <em>hilariously</em>) out-of-place new cover designs. (Although actually the McCarthy cover looks ever-so-slightly Chippendal&#0235;sque. And does anyone remember <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/77139108@N00/" title="Actually DS Tie-In Games I Wanna Play">Nintendo DS Tie-In Games I’d Like to Play</a>?) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75582 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:43:38 -0800 bookninja books coverdesign graphicdesign joeclark http://www.metafilter.com/74783/Dust%2DJackets%2Dfrom%2DAmerican%2Dand%2DEuropean%2DBooks%2D19261947 <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:304473&amp;slabel=%255BCollection%2520of%2520book%2520jackets%255D&amp;sScope=images&amp;sLevel=1">Over 2500 dust jackets</a> of <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=157">American and European books</a> from the years <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgtitle_tree.cfm?level=1&title_id=304473">1926 through 1947</a>. Here are some that caught my eye: <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=304820&imageID=487676&parent_id=304480&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=48&imgs=12&total=101&pos=53&snum=">Burned Evidence</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=305846&imageID=492781&word=title_id_list%3A304473&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&lWord=&lField=&sScope=images&sLevel=1&sLabel=%255BCollection%2520of%2520book%2520jackets%255D&num=444&imgs=12&total=2511&pos=454">If You Know What I Mean</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=307426&imageID=1105894&parent_id=304495&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=108&imgs=12&total=123&pos=117">Ikaria</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=309322&imageID=1111808&parent_id=304507&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=48&imgs=12&total=125&pos=56&snum=">Murder for the Millions</a>, <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=305443&imageID=497936&parent_id=304484&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=60&imgs=12&total=100&pos=69&snum=">Dream of the Red Chamber</a> and <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=305696&imageID=492707&parent_id=304485&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=72&imgs=12&total=100&pos=77">A Farewell to Arms</a>. Finally, I can't help but link to <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=304711&imageID=490028&parent_id=304481&word=&snum=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=106&num=96&imgs=12&pNum=&pos=100">a German book about Russian book jackets</a>, the subject of an old <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/61219/Russian-Book-Jackets-19171942">post</a> by Alvy Ampersand. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74783 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:17:10 -0800 bookjackets books design dustjackets graphicdesign Kattullus http://www.metafilter.com/68684/Elegant%2DPelicans <a href="http://thingsmagazine.net/projects/pelican.htm">The Pelican Project</a> - six decades of Pelican book covers. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68684 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:56:15 -0800 bookcovers bookdesign books design graphicdesign layout pelican pelicanbooks publishing thingsmagazine dobbs http://www.metafilter.com/51812/Gallery%2Dof%2Dbook%2Dcovers "<a href="http://covers.fwis.com/">Covers</a> is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51812 Wed, 24 May 2006 13:36:20 -0800 art bookcovers books design graphicdesign dobbs