The Great Penguin Bookchase game
(discovered via Ace Jet 170:)

“Penguin designs should be seen beyond the bookshelf” (article via guardian.co.uk)

Penguin Great Stars series design by Stefanie Posavec

(discovered via The Book Design Review)

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

Penguin symbols c. 1963
(via davidgeorgepearson)

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

davidkaneda:

Marks Hits the Shops | New at Pentagram

Marks, Pentagram’s latest book, collects 400 symbols designed by our partners between 1962 and the present day. The limited edition of 1000 copies has been published by Laurence King Publishing and is identical to the book produced by Pentagram for its friends and clients, sans tote bag but with the addition of a fetching white belly band. The book is printed on French-folded bible paper, bound in a red, cloth-covered softback cover and includes five ribbons for bookmarking.

Penguin cover design by John Sewell c. 1967
(via mjkghk)

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

quite a funky Penguin paperback cover design
by Tony Meeuwissen c. 1969 (via mjkghk)

a new interview with Penguin UK cover designer
Coralie Bickford-Smith

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?

the brilliance of typographer Jan Tschichold

“The man who perfected Penguin’s classic paperback deserves to be remembered as one of the great designers of the 20th century.” — Richard Hollis, from article in The Guardian: Jan Tschichold: a titan of typography

(discovered article via a post made by Brian Slawson)