Posts tagged book covers
Beautiful Books - The Folio Society - not only fantastic book covers, all editions are also illustrated!
Pictures below: “Pinocchio” by Grahame Baker-Smith, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Jonathan Burton, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Anna + Elena = Balbusso (winners of a Gold Award from The American Society of Illustrators).
The illustrations of Ida Bohatta (*1900; †1992) have accompanied me during elementary school. Any time we did well we got stamps in our booklets. For 10 collected stamps we got a little illustrated card called “Fleisskärtchen”. I loved those cards. Pictured are her books on the four seasons, printed in 1941.
A german article on a (long passed) exhibition of Buchkunst für Kinder in Wien 1890–1938: Jugendschatz und Wunderscherlein | kultur-online
“Vom Biedermeier zur Moderne” Beispielhafte Bilderbücher für Kinder, Sammlung Hans Ulrich Beerenwinkel Mettingen, Katalog 78, Winter 2010 Pdf (114 pages, with numerous illustrations)
Penguin book covers have again and again caught my eyes over many years and now I finally know, who is responsible for a large amount of them! Paul Buckley, executive creative director at penguin usa. Above: The Steinbeck Series, woodcuts by Andrew Davidson.
Also Penguins Classics: Cover art by Jillian Tamaki. Also found through lullafly studios. An article on cover art for “The Secret Garden” (1911) on Maria Celina’s blog.
Penguin Books Australia cover art by Daniela Jalengka Terrazzini. Found through lullafly studios.
As a child I loved the Narnia books. When I was about to get one for a little girl to introduce her to the same magic that I once experienced, I had to find out that the current German versions of the books look like shit.
What happend?? In a world with one gazillion superfluous graphic designers this is what you get?? Plus they left out any kind of illustrations?! Great work, that’s how to keep a classic alive, thanks.
On top beautiful designs from 1957-1960; middle left and right between 1977 and 1989; bottom left current issue (the one I had to buy - the cover features something that looks like an alien? words can’t describe it’s ugliness) and some other trashy designs between 2007 and now. All covers found here.
More Penguin Classics hardcovers, also designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
F. Scott Fitzgeralds works as Penguin Classics hardcover. Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
