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"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:46:25 +0000

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

- Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

Hello

Wed, 11 May 2011 21:02:00 +0100

In the mean time, please visit my other tumblr which occasionally features book covers, but mostly Sofia Coppola, Phoebe Philo et les garçonnes.

Photo

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:06:18 +0000

lower case is sexy.

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:13:57 +0100

*Click me; The top 5 rules of book cover design

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:50:00 +0000

*Click me; The top 5 rules of book cover design:

- by John Gall, the vice-president and art director of Vintage Books.

Penguin Modern Classics: Franz Kafka

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:09:00 +0000

- A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Vintage Classics: Italo Calvino

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:35:27 +0000

chinese book covers

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:59:00 +0000

it's snowing

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:50:00 +0000

have a cup of tea and rest. x

in penguin’s photostream: some very nice penguin covers...

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:12:00 +0000

in penguin’s photostream: some very nice penguin covers and spines.

The many, many curious cases of Benjamin Button

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:57:37 +0000

The many, many curious cases of Benjamin Button:

Many, many of them are horrible.

- the chronicle of American Dreams.

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:36:00 +0000

- the chronicle of American Dreams.

Vintage Yates

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:58:00 +0000

Some very vintage, beautiful covers - all images from the Advertising Archives.

‘One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century’ - Sunday Telegraph

Click here for the complete Vintage Yates collection.

To me,

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:38:00 +0000

good book covers are those that make you jump, make you marvel, make you smile; they would leave a big room for imagination and interpretation. Typography is important, colour is important, but the idea is of paramount. Somehow the current technology would become old, out-of-style, but the beauty of classic, groundbreaking designs will always remain.

My definition of Paradise...

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:26:00 +0000

The Book Cover Archive

Loving the Penguin Blog: Design that get you hiding under the covers.

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Loving the Penguin Blog: Design that get you hiding under the covers.

“Filled with inspiring images, Penguin by Design demonstrates just how difficult it is not to...

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:09:00 +0000

“Filled with inspiring images, Penguin by Design demonstrates just how difficult it is not to judge a book by its cover.”

click the image for large book-spread; powered by penguin.

Synopsis

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:05:00 +0000

By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book-cover design and the role of artists and designers in creating and defining the Penguin look… this is a distinctive picture of how Penguin has consistently established its identity through its covers, influenced by - and influencing - the wider development of graphic design and the changing fashions in typography, photography, illustration or printing techniques.

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