Six Red Poetry Books
As a follow-up to my earlier Six Pink Poetry Books post, I present: Six Red Poetry Books! Fiona Tinwei Lam, Enter the Chrysanthemum. Designer: David Drummond. Naomi Guttman, Wet...
View ArticleFaber Poetry Typographical Covers
I love these Faber and Faber Poetry books, designed by Justus Oehler of Pentagram. This series uses color so beautifully, setting up the rule of three colors (one for the background, one for the...
View ArticleThese Books Are Totally Glitchin’
This is an interesting idea for print-on-demand book covers and looks cool, too. Design student Michael Kosmicki created this series of covers as an entry in the 2009 D&AD Student Awards...
View ArticleFeedbooks Shows Free E-books Can Have Nice Covers
I started reading books on my iPod Touch a couple of months ago. One of the first things I downloaded (for Stanza) was a free version of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which I’d never read before....
View ArticleIllustrator Laura Carlin for the Folio Society
I’m gazing longingly at the Folio Society website, particularly this lovely clothbound edition of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, illustrated by Laura Carlin. Here’s an interior illustration:...
View ArticleWhen Publishing Is More Than Publishing
Publication Studio Makes A Book from Mike Merrill on Vimeo. I was reading the local newspaper this morning and came across an interesting article about a print-on-demand publisher called Publication...
View ArticleWhy NOT Judge a Book by Its Cover?
From an early age we are warned not to judge a book by its cover, but now that I am an adult, I question this advice. Why can’t we judge a book by the cover? Isn’t that why new books are displayed face...
View ArticleBorges’s Library of Babel
Back in April I posted about these beautiful novels published by Les éditions du Panama. The Paris-based publishing house went out of business in July. It’s a shame—they put out a lot of lovely books,...
View ArticleChildren’s Books . . . for Adults
[Image from Curious Pages] I stumbled upon a great blog called Curious Pages that features interesting children’s picture books. The subtitle for the site is “recommended inappropriate books for kids,”...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood U.K. Book Covers
Finally, a book cover that does justice to the work of Margaret Atwood! Beautiful. Too bad for us Americans that it’s the U.K. edition (here’s the U.S. hardcover: http://www.yearoftheflood.com/us/)....
View ArticleOut of Print but Not Out of Luck
Check out this interesting company that highlights “iconic and often out of print” book covers by putting the images onto T-shirts. The company is called, as you probably guessed, Out of Print, and...
View ArticleCrimes of the Art
Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson’s new show at Team Gallery in New York consists of a series of large black-and-white paintings based on appropriated images. One source image, it turns out, is a...
View ArticleHappy 75 Years to Penguin Books
First there was the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile and then the Peeps Fun Bus, and now there’s the Penguin Anniversary-mobile. The automobile, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of Penguin Books, will...
View ArticleCool New Poetry Book Covers
What is it with poetry book covers? They’re so often boring or ugly. I think a major reason for the ugly ones is simply that small presses can’t afford to hire a proper designer. And there’s an...
View ArticleBookstore Readings
Do you attend bookstore readings? I am fortunate to live in Portland, Oregon, home to many bookstores, including the venerable Powell’s Books. I could probably go to a bookstore reading on a daily...
View ArticleSmokin’ Books
If you like the idea of super compact books that will fit into your pocket but aren’t keen on reading books on a small digital device such as an iPhone, there is still hope! U.K. company TankBooks has...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Book Clubs
Book clubs are pretty amazing things. I don’t belong to one at the moment, but I would say 80 percent of my friends are members of book groups. I really believe there is a book group for everyone....
View ArticleNow THAT Is What I Call a Book Tour
There are probably plenty of writers out there who kind of dread book tours, but author Jim Lynch isn’t one of them, or at least he isn’t at the moment—he has found a way to combine pleasure with...
View ArticleNew Bookstore Fills Unique Niche
It’s supposed to be a bad economic climate for brick-and-mortar bookstores, and it seems booksellers are closing their doors left and right. It might come as a surprise, then, to hear about the...
View ArticleWho’s Got Bieber Fever?
I was going to write about Portland State University’s partnership with Hewlett-Packard and Lulu to create print-on-demand books, but then I came across this video. It may not be more newsworthy than...
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