November 5, 2010
I want to read this! It combines two of my favorite things in one awesome book cover: handlettering and matryoshka nesting dolls (as evidenced here)! So yes, I do judge a book by it’s cover. It also helps that the content seems very interesting.
Great illustration work by French artist Blexbolex for Ginette Mathiot’s I Know How To Cook.
via Design*Sponge
yes, prease.
On my wish list at the moment is, Charley Harper: an Illustrated History… only problem is the price tag of around$400 australian, hoping it will be slightly more affordable when they release a smaller sized edition in october.
I’m soooo excited about this new Victionary book, Design • Taste because it marries my two loves: design + food. Pre-ordering it on Amazon now!
via Designworklife
American photographer Thomas Allen constructs witty and clever dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks.
Lots more where that came from, take a look.
via Paintalicious
I love Kaptiza for their excellent set of stock illustartions and now they’ve released geometric, a (must-have) book featuring 264 pattern illustrations plus a CD packed full of realted fonts.
(via ffffound)
Book Cover Archive has recently launched with more than 800 covers to browse through.
Cover design for a fantastic 1960s vacation house plan book. (via The Mid-Century Modernist)
This is Where We Live by Apt Studio
Using more than 1000 books and three weeks of filming in stop-motion, the producers Apt Studio and working with Asylum Films made this beautiful film to commemorate the 25th anniversary of imprint 4th Estate. The film contains numerous in-jokes and references to the books it features, and everything, from the ships in port to the cinema in Soho to the man fishing in Central Park is made out of books, covers, pages and words. In the campaign’s website you can check photos of the making of.
