Touring the Bat Cave
Chip Kidd's apartment.

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Ok, yes, but John in a fetal position's got to be worth something.

Best magazine covers of all time

Um, exqueeze me? No MAD? No CRACKED? No Dog Fancy? No Malahat Review? Some list.


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Undercover

John Updike on book covers.

“Modernism,” like “pornography” and “literary fiction,” is a term hard to define, though we all feel we know what it means—Apollinaire and Gertrude Stein, Bauhaus workers’ housing, the enigmatic and erudite complexity of “Ulysses” and “The Waste Land,” the startling distortions of Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” Book covers, however, with their ineluctable role as advertisements for the contents of the book, can scarcely attain the proud non serviam of high modernism: art for its own willful, bourgeois-baiting sake.


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Good thing it wasn't a winter scene...

I'm almost 100% positive that this must have been contracted to a secular book designer who just couldn't resist. That or else someone's unconsciously crying out for help.

A story sure to make this year's Golden Shuriken Awards.

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Oh my.

After You've Blown It
It'll be on the Web as a lesson for other book designers.

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>Das booken blitzkrieg

>Canadian book designers invited to compete in German design competition. >Ingrid Paulson is the best designer I've ever not met.

I blush. I just found this wonderful compliment. Thank you.

Typographic tours of London
This is worth the trip alone.

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Best book designer in Canada has to be Duncan Campbell at Coteau Books. He's also done the recent covers of grain magazine. Have a look at Spring 2005, the "if" issue for a wonderful example of his talent.

Das booken blitzkrieg

Canadian book designers invited to compete in German design competition. Ingrid Paulson is the best designer I've ever not met.


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When someone blows your cover

What happens when two books use the same stock image? Well, if they come to occupy the same space at the same time... ka-blammo! Of course, there's something even worse than finding your image on another book. (And speaking of judging books by their covers...)


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Judging books by their covers

The classics edition.


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Mondolithic takes on the Martians
One of my favourite websites is Mondolithic, a visual-arts site run by a couple of Vancouver artists. If you read Wired or science magazines, you've seen their work. Their latest project is the cover for The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives on the H.G. Wells Classic, an anthology of essays on the sci-fi, uh, classic. Looks good. Check out the galleries while you're on the site. Some fabulous stuff here, including one of my all-time favourites.

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No Country for Old Men cover
The Rake draws our attention to the cover design of the upcoming Cormac McCarthy novel.

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