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    fleamarkets:

Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character by Alistair Cooke
cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer, c. 1940

    fleamarkets:

    Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character by Alistair Cooke

    cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer, c. 1940

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    redesignrelated:
book cover redesigns for Kurt Vonnegut backlist

There have of course been numerous other designs for the Vonnegut classics, but most of us specifically remember Carin Goldberg’s iconic series design from the late 1980s. Our beat-up copies of Bluebeard, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions were all in this packaging. Last week, while browsing around Spoonbill & Sugartown bookstore in Williamsburg, a new series design caught our eye on the table. We didn’t see reissues of many titles, including our personal favorites Bluebeard, and Breakfast of Champions. But we anticipate they are on their way.
The newly released and repackaged Vonnegut backlist nicely coincides with the hardcover release of Look at the Birdie (a previously unpublished short fiction story which was recently reviewed by Dave Eggers for the NYT Sunday Book Review). For the jacket design of Look at the Birdie, designer Lynn Buckley incorporates an original illustration by Vonnegut himself. This kind of collaboration is seen on all of the reissued Dial Press paperbacks.

We recognize the cover illustration on Mother Night from the interior pages of Breakfast of Champions. Please leave a note if you recognize the initial origins of any other cover illustrations. After spending a bit of time online, we didn’t uncover much background information on the new series design. Maybe we have to be patient and hope Faceout Books will get the behind-the-scenes story on this?
And, because we couldn’t help but include it, below are a couple first edition jacket designs. (original jacket design for Slaughterhouse-Five by Paul Bacon, jacket design for Breakfast of Champions by Robert Giusti)

    redesignrelated:

    book cover redesigns for Kurt Vonnegut backlist


    There have of course been numerous other designs for the Vonnegut classics, but most of us specifically remember Carin Goldberg’s iconic series design from the late 1980s. Our beat-up copies of Bluebeard, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions were all in this packaging. Last week, while browsing around Spoonbill & Sugartown bookstore in Williamsburg, a new series design caught our eye on the table. We didn’t see reissues of many titles, including our personal favorites Bluebeard, and Breakfast of Champions. But we anticipate they are on their way.

    The newly released and repackaged Vonnegut backlist nicely coincides with the hardcover release of Look at the Birdie (a previously unpublished short fiction story which was recently reviewed by Dave Eggers for the NYT Sunday Book Review). For the jacket design of Look at the Birdie, designer Lynn Buckley incorporates an original illustration by Vonnegut himself. This kind of collaboration is seen on all of the reissued Dial Press paperbacks.

    We recognize the cover illustration on Mother Night from the interior pages of Breakfast of Champions. Please leave a note if you recognize the initial origins of any other cover illustrations. After spending a bit of time online, we didn’t uncover much background information on the new series design. Maybe we have to be patient and hope Faceout Books will get the behind-the-scenes story on this?

    And, because we couldn’t help but include it, below are a couple first edition jacket designs. (original jacket design for Slaughterhouse-Five by Paul Bacon, jacket design for Breakfast of Champions by Robert Giusti)

    Obama     art     books     design     video    

    Designing Obama: The book published by Taschen (book party w/ Steven Heller, Spike Lee & Aaron Perry-Zucker will be held on November 4th at the Taschen store in Soho)

    bmdesign:

    Designing Obama…

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    vintage book cover, designer unknown(discovered via www.fulltable.com)

    vintage book cover, designer unknown
    (discovered via www.fulltable.com)

    books     covers     design     illustration     vintage     Alvin Lustig    
    dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig, c. 1943 (more via Scott Lindberg—I’m jealous of this collection, mine is much smaller)

    dust jacket design by Alvin Lustig, c. 1943 (more via Scott Lindberg
    I’m jealous of this collection, mine is much smaller)

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    Happy Halloween!(via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves, illustration by Richard Scarry c. 1968)

    Happy Halloween!
    (via Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves, illustration by Richard Scarry c. 1968)

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    Grain edit’s review of Graphic Design Referencedby Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit

    Grain edit’s review of Graphic Design Referenced
    by Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit

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    Open-air Library in Germany, designed by KARO(discovered via dezeen)

    Open-air Library in Germany, designed by KARO
    (discovered via dezeen)

    Emigre     typography     design     books    
     still on my wish list.
Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue


    still on my wish list.

    Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue

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    A Book of Scripts book cover (via telephonostereo)

    A Book of Scripts book cover (via telephonostereo)

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    workspaces for designers(via Creative Review, above “idea wall” from the Acrylicize offices)

    workspaces for designers
    (via Creative Review, above “idea wall” from the Acrylicize offices)

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