Franklin Mill | Makers of Bookjigs & Miro

Visual Inspiration with a theme of the written word: Book Covers, Book Design, Illustration, & Typography.

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Just plain Cool | Small sampling of work from illustrator Yehrin Tong, whose cover was featured in the last post.

Wow. Amazing stuff.

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Art of the Cover | The Casual Optimist picks 50 best cover designs for 2015. Some amazing stuff. Link to the full list here

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Jules Vern Art Print | French novelist Jules Verne is renown for his science fiction literature. His Voyages Extraordinaires are a compilation of tales set in an array of exotic locations, with many fantastical machines and inventions. By MUTI in South Africa. Buy the poster here.

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Art of the Cover | Some beautiful cover design / typography by Luke Lucas out of Melbourne, Australia.

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Book by its Cover | This installment includes two beautiful covers for Penguin. Dubliners was designed by Apfel Zet and Billy Liar by Tony Meeuwissen.

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Disney Character Oil Paintings - Created by Heather Theurer

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She was at Fantasy Con here in Utah and was the SWEETEST person.  I need to buy a print from her at some point… I wish I’d had the money at the time.

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The New Yorker Cover Story: Interesting read about Tom Gauld’s cover from The New Yorker blog here.

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So pretty!

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MY HOME LIBRARY:

Most recent purchase.

Artwork by the talented Kevin Stanton.

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I’ve only just found out about this but I’m so excited!

It’s a new Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) book about pirates, which is due out in February 2015. According to Neil Gaiman, it’s the ‘strangest, most brilliant offering yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket’. Find out more HERE

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Autumn is next week! And what better way to mark the changing seasons than with master macabre illustrator Edward Gorey? According to Flavorwire, Gorey oversaw paperback cover designs as an art editor for Anchor Books in the 1950s. Here’s a sampling of his work, but there’s lots more to look at over on flickr.

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CITIx60 Barcelona by Forma and Co

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Gorgeous Puffin in Bloom editions illustrated by Anna Bond from Rifle Paper Company! Beautiful artwork on those endpapers and cover, plus special bonus materials at the end of each book. Including, of course, a recipe for raspberry cordial.

We’re giving away a complete set of four to one lucky person who completes our MG/YA classics challenge this year!

Photographs by The Midnight Garden.

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Beautiful two colors book for Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. by Viktor Suszter & Lead82 & Daniel Nemeth & David Lencses & Zalán Péter Salát

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Art of the Book | This installment features some great print ads for Livraria da Vila, a Brazilian Bookstore, art directed by Marcelo Rizerio. Featuring classics Moby Dick and War and Peace.

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Art of the Book | a few illustrations for children's books by one of my favorite illustrators, Leo Espinosa.

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Currently reading and really enjoying this book.