The Art of M. S. Corley: Harry Potter Redesign
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A redesign of the Harry Potter books in a classic Penguin Book style

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A new approach for the Harry Potter book's cover. Cool!Vector. Clean.

redesign of book covers for the rowling series, reimagined as 70's penguin PBs.

nice books binding

UPDATED EVERY MONDAY. This venue has been created to appreciate the practice of book cover design. This is not a blog to rip apart what we dislike—everyone has a different aesthetic. This is a blog about the challenges and outcomes

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The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to 1977.

obaly scifi knih, pěknej art

Rivermaya makes the list. O yey!

100 obscure and remarcable cd covers

Some CD covers feature heavily edited and airbrushed vanity photos of the musicians or recording artists. Thankfully, others are much more creative and work to create a cover image that reflects the mood, attitude or feel of the music it promotes. The most striking designs are those that capture both a buyer’s attention and the essense of the music. The CD cover art designs and concepts featured in this showcase present dramatic, quirky, unusual or unique artwork. This type of cover art can make a big difference when a little-known band releases an album. Captivating or iconic cover art can make a band instantly recognizable, which increases sales, which in turn boosts airplay and subsequently demand for the music. Mainstream marketing is rarely this attractive, and the wide variety of beautiful CD cover art makes browsing CDs an enjoyable experience that reaches far beyond the music.

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100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers

Here are some of the most controversial magazine covers of all time.

Site com todas as capas de revistas que Steve Jobs já figurou. Muito bacana.

Good Girl Art, usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for (mild erotic interest). The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie, or wicked temptress." The GGA designation seems to have originated with comic books and is usually applied to attractive sexy young women who are either in peril or are perpetrating the peril like my favorite gun moll on the right. So it is often politically incorrect but can also be empowering when at the right end of a gun. There are two Galleries where you will see some of my favorite GGA covers from early Paperbacks and Pulps. You can go directly to Gallery 1 or Gallery 2, or go to the Table of Contents, to see what is here. For those of you who

Good Girl Art, usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as "A cover illustration depicting an attractive young woman, usually in skimpy or form-fitting clothing, and designed for (mild erotic interest). The term does not apply to the morality of the 'good girl', who is often a gun moll, tough cookie, or wicked temptress."

in a sea of noise

The best in visual communication.

"We wanted to create a series style that would adhere to the nature of the content – eg its complexity – but employ a hands-on approach

Classic sci-fi novel covers torn down to the bare minimum: black and white goodness.

Love these.

I think I bookmarked this already but oh well...

"Sanda created each cover using A4 paper, with all the typography printed and placed on the structure by hand," Jones continues. "We then photographed each paper structure and, upon seeing the original black and white images, we didn't feel that any tweaking or further alterations were needed."

he Nation Magazine Cover Archive (NMCA)

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Amazing interface of vintage graphic design magazine covers. It smacks of stealing!

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Saturday Design Inspiration – 50+ Examples of Criterion Box Art- unstage - http://www.unstage.com/2010/06/saturday-design-inspiration-50-examples-of-criterion-box-art/

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Long regarded as some of the highest quality DVD’s available, the Criterion Collection is also known to release DVD’s with fantastic box art. For your Saturday design inspiration, here are 58 of the coolest Criterion Collection DVD box covers.

Saturday Design Inspiration – 50+ Examples of Criterion Box Art- unstage

Awesome graphic packaging design

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