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Seafaring Women
Seafaring Women is a broadsheet newspaper on the subject of female sailors, and is part of the project The Hidden Things in Plain Sight: Female Sailors and Stowaways conceived by Anastasia Palamarchuk & Rebecca Sittler, that looks at gender roles and the stigma of being female in a male dominated society.
Seafaring Women features content sourced from 19th/20th century ship logs and news articles…
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The Boy With The Tiger's Heart book cover
The Boy With The Tiger’s Heart book cover
Check out this brilliant illustrated book cover for Linda Coggin’s novel The Boy With The Tiger’s Heart by the talented Brussels-based designer/illustrator Levente Szabó. Want a copy? Buy one.
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Dracula, illustrated
“There was one great tome more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned.
On it was but one word, DRACULA.”
Check out this illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s classic, quintessential Gothic tale, Dracula.
This hardcover book, created by Nafis Adhikari, features an illustration style that subtly blends Victorina-era Gothic-revival with Manga, with Victorian-inspired floral…
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Contemporary Japanese Design
Check out this Japanese-design inspired publication by Joe Leadbeater, naturally titled Contemporary Japanese Design.
Related Post: The Two Generations
Joe’s taken elements of Japanese design and culture and produced a publication (that can be read in both English and Japanese) that mimics the style perfectly.
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Punased I (The Reds)
Punased I (The Reds)
Punased I (translation: The Reds), is a book by Jaak Valge that looks at communism activist and Estonia’s incorporation into the Soviet Union following World War II.
Designing by Tuumik Stuudio, type within the book is printed in red on white stock, with greyscale imagery printed onto PopSet poppy stock, giving these pages a striking, blood-red hue.
Finally, the book is bound in a gun-metal…
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Collector's Edition – Artist Cover Bomb Series
Collector’s Edition – Artist Cover Bomb Series
Collector’s Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics is a visual culture book about specialist music, book, magazine design by Stuart Tolley.
Following the success of Collector’s Edition, Stuart approached several respected and well-known creative artists and musicians and asked them each to produce a unique, one-off, hand decorated edition of the book.
These fantastic special editions are…
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Illustrated hand-printed books by Valeria Brancaforte
Illustrated hand-printed books by Valeria Brancaforte
One of the things I love about running this blog is the diverse mix of work I get submitted for consideration (want to be featured? Submit your own).
It ranges from modern designs with clean layouts and perfect typography, to rougher, more the more relaxed, expressive work , that’s a little ‘rougher around the edges’.
These books by Italian print-maker Valeria Brancaforteare a great example of…
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IRKUT Aircraft
Check out this promotional book for Russian aircraft manufacturer, Irkut, designed by TWET.
I love the textured illustrations throughout the book. I was expecting the interior to be very rigid and corporate, with lots of striking photography of aircraft, so the illustrations and illustrated type where something of a surprise (albeit a nice one).
Related Feature: SUER Catalog
Photography by Gelio…
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A conceptual hardback cover design for Chuck Palahniuk’s cult classic Fight Club. Drawing on the theme of chaos, the book is wrapped in a sandpaper jacket, with the title and author name screen printed onto the front.
When placed on a shelf between other books, the sandpaper cover will damage the other covers every time it is removed and replaced, allowing the reader themselves to “destroy something beautiful…”
http://www.paulmurraydesign.com/project/fight-club-hardback-cover
25 Hand-picked Free Fonts for Sci-fi Book Covers
25 Hand-picked Free Fonts for Sci-fi Book Covers
Ah, picking a typeface, possibly the most frustrating hurdle a designer will face when working on any design.
It’s not just a case of slapping on some text in any old font. You have to find that perfect one that that feels just right.
This is especially true when designing a book cover.
Everythingon the cover will give a potential reader a snap-judgement of the story inside, especially the…
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Lab Periodical
It’s always exciting getting a new submission in my inbox (here’s how to submit your own work), and when this work landed, I got very excited indeed.
Lab is a biannual periodical on the subjects of science, technology and travel, and features an engaging and striking design by Maxim Cormier and Chén Fan (be sure to check out their previous feature too – Designer Personal Agendas).
The cover…
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Jane Austen 'Tears' book cover series
Jane Austen ‘Tears’ book cover series
This wonderful series book cover designs for Jane Austen novels is a self-initiated project by London-based design Rebecca Richardson.
Wanting to create a series of covers that conveyed the emotion and romance that many of Austen’s novels touched upon, Rebecca took Austen’s writing and used it as the basis for the cover concept, setting quotes from each book in a hand-written style on a textured…
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A Scandal in Bohemia – letterpress book
A Scandal in Bohemia – letterpress book
These gorgeous, hand-bound books are part of an extensive letterpress project by designer and typographer Lucia Weilein.
Taking the first of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, Lucia set about creating 50 editions of A Scandal in Bohemia, with each copy of which utilising a variety of printing and finishing techniques, including setting each line of body copy one 20-pica line…
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Newds Photography Zine (NSFW)
Newds Photography Zine (NSFW)
Newds is a photography zine by artist Sal Nunkachov, unsurprisingly made up entirely of nude (yet tasteful) black and white imagery.
Some of the content is a little more daring than what’s featured here, so for the sake of those readers who may be viewing this post at work, I’ve kept the more ‘saucy’ content out. You can view these images and more on Sal’s Newds page though.
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SUER Catalog
Designed by Russian agency Reklamist, this impressive catalog for the SUER company, a developer of automated energy management systems, boasts some impressive visuals and finishing touches.
The catalog itself features a die-cut slipcase, along with an embossed cover, and vibrant visuals throughout.
What I really love about this design is the way the more graphic content seems to explode out of…
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New Eden – A Book Celebrating Great Game Enviroment Design
New Eden – A Book Celebrating Great Game Enviroment Design
New Eden is a book showcasing a selection of hand-picked computer game environments.
Each spread features a high-resolution in-game render of a different game environment, plus an iconographic key and a mini-map ‘HUD’ that denotes the genre and environment styles, such as ‘space’, ‘swords’, or ‘apocalyptic’.
Quotes from game designers are interspersed throughout, and the book is finished off…
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Star Maker
One of the real joys of running this blog is finding printed matter that really speaks volumes for the quality and tactile experience of reading analogue media.
This project by Daniel Siim is one such example that attempts to reconnect audiences with the physical experience of reading a printed book, as opposed to reading on an electronic device.
Taking William Olaf Stapledon’s 1937 novel Star…
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