Penguin Great Stars series design by Stefanie Posavec

(discovered via The Book Design Review)

spotted John Gall’s new book cover design for The Book of Fathers (published by Other Press on October 13, 2009). From a distance browsing in Posman books, it instantly caught my attention. Up close the subtle special effects help to make this design truly unique amongst those books placed next door on the shelf. The collage art (which is embossed) is by Nicole Natri (cover image via n a k n)

Reply Paid by H. F. Heard c. 1944,
cover art by Gerald Gregg
(discovered via PopKulture on flickr)

The Main Title, 1948
“Experimental layout by Jan Tschichold and Erik Ellegaard Frederiksen.”
(via davidgeorgepearson on flickr)

Stacks of paperbacks from the 60s and 70s (via schemacoma on flickr)

The Reader is Warned cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer c. 1945 
(discovered via pietschreuders on flickr)

c. 1965, Cover design by Keith Burns
(discovered via mjkghk via flickr)

I first discovered Jenny Grigg’s work in Fully Booked, and found her work brilliant. Thanks Faceout Books for sharing her behind-the-scenes process for the Peter Carey series in Australia .

bauldoff:

I really like this tissue paper book cover series by Jenny Grigg!

Found on the super FaceOut Books blog, which features the process and challenges of book cover design projects by interviewing the artists behind them.

paperback cover designs by Emma J. Wallace for Orion’s Future Classics

I’m always amazed when a designer is able to pull off cover designs sans titles and author names on the front. I think this is a lovely and refreshing looking series.

(discussion on her process via FaceOut Books)

lovely cover designs on victorian Yellowbacks
from 1850—1900 (via abebooks)

If anyone has any supplemental information on this exhibition, or knows in what year the AIGA decided to do away with a separate paperbacks exhibition….please leave a note.

fredseibert:

design:related - AIGA Paperbacks U.S.A. 1959/1961

just for fun, penguin-esque Harry Potter series redesign by illustrator M.S. Corley
(via buzzfeed)

70 Years of Penguin Design at the Shipley Art Gallery through May 31, 2009

Penguin 2.0 lets you personalize a message on the dedication page of a paperback edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Very cool idea. But is this that much better than some good old handwriting?