Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Penguin paperback cover designs victoria and albert museum. Jul 26, 2016 edited by penguin creative director paul buckley, classic penguin. How a penguin book designer got her job literally, darling. May 31, 2005 the orange spines that adorn the covers of this book are readily recognizable to any reader. The secret of penguins enduring paperback covers is all in the rigorous geometry, a wise choice of illustrators and that wonky hand. Penguin modern classic edition of virginia woolfs to the lighthouse. Weve compiled a selection of the penguin science fiction series to show you. First up, an interview with daniela medina, who designs book covers for penguin random house, a global publishing company. The idea of a collection of postcards featuring classic penguin book covers is, on the surface of it, a fine idea. Etsy has thousands of handcrafted and vintage products that perfectly fit what youre searching for. Youll see three book covers from each decade, and for each question you just need to name the book you think the cover belongs to. How penguin classics books became design icons books. Its weird how you get used to things and after staring at the empty frames night after night for such a long time, we hardly even noticed them anymore.
Jul 30, 2014 hillary kelly is the digital media editor at the new republic. The fundamental rule of all readers is to never judge a book by its cover, but ilhether we spot a gorgeous book in someones hands or displayed in a bookstore, the cover piques our curiosity. Penguin were exceptionally successful in setting up a system, not only to produce their paperback novels, but also for the design of their covers. Seven hundred penguins is another great book that shows an amazing collection of 700 book covers do not grab my images and repost them on your flickr page. Twenty alan aldridge book covers voices of east anglia. Apr 16, 2017 20 stunning editions of classic books youll want to add to your library. Penguin used a simple colour scheme, two solid bands of colour sandwiching a band. The original threepanel penguin covers and the subsequent minor variations are beautiful examples of design. In 1935 allen lane stood on a platform at exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journey to london.
The history and cover art of science fiction published by penguin books from 1935 to the present day. The majority of our favorites, however, feature the more psychedelic artwork from the late 1970s. Nineteen eightyfour by george orwell, with a shepard fairey cover illustration for its 2008 edition. Cover to cover delivers 288 pages of literary eye candy. Apr 04, 2016 a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic penguin book jacket. For serious literature to pander to us with cosmetic allurements would be somehow tacky, uncool. White maas saga by eric linklater, 1963, with an illustration by john griffiths. Find classic covers of your favourite penguin books, or explore contemporary designs created by awardwinning designer coralie bickfordsmith, each featuring a motif or image inspired by the book. The 22 most iconic book covers of all time buzzfeed. Book covers presented at cover browser are republished within a fair use context. Green covers were generally for crime novels, cerise or pink to some was travel and adventure, dark blue were biographies, red for drama, purple for essays, and yellow was for miscellaneous titles that did not fit into any of the above categories. See more ideas about vintage green, vintage and vintage penguin. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation, inc.
A brief history of penguin book covers by lizzy gosney issuu. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially british design in one box. The days of a much enjoyed weekly trip to the library, when i had the time to devour books. Classic pelican book covers in pictures books the guardian. A3 prints of four debut doctor who stories as penguin books might have published in the late 1960s. The official home of penguin books usa, publishers of bestselling fiction, nonfiction, classics, and childrens books. Over the years penguin produced many gorgeous covers and a few clunkers, and author phil baines curates a collection that includes both. Home labs random about this is the sister site of vintage ad browser.
Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately. Penguin has produced a number of rather striking book covers over the years. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Tschicholds work included the woodcut illustrated covers of the classics series. Oct 19, 2017 penguin were exceptionally successful in setting up a system, not only to produce their paperback novels, but also for the design of their covers. One of penguins strategies was to implement standardized designs for book covers. The art of illustration flourished at penguin during the 1960s and 70s under a series of art directors whose tastes in cover design were more graphic than typographic. Examples of fonts in use tagged with penguin books. The covers chosen range from the early 1960s when penguin began deviating from their traditional colorcoded designs all the way through to the 2000s. Thanks to facettis pictorial covers, penguin classics became visual icons of 1960s and 70s britain.
Weve rounded up some unique and breathtaking book covers that are sure to catch your eye and. An internationally acclaimed artists largest exhibition to date will open this month. Discover all the extraordinary items our community of craftspeople have to offer and find the perfect gift for your loved one or yourself. If cover to cover were nothing but reproductions of classic penguin covers over the years, it would be a book id want to spend a few hours with. Unfortunately, most of the covers included here are rather dull in design. Both bibliophiles and design buffs will be enthralled by the book, which features hundreds of stunning covers paired with commentary by the artists. Penguin books was founded in 1935 by allen lane with the purpose of inexpensively producing high quality, but affordable, paperbacks. Penguin used a simple colour scheme, two solid bands of colour sandwiching a band of white, as very general way of identifying the genre of the book. Only a true bookworm can beat this book cover quiz. How penguin classics books became design icons books the. At this time, penguin book titles were using a mixture of type size, weight and kerning. Penguin book covers inspire artist for york exhibition the northern.
The art of illustration flourished at penguin during the 1960s and 70s under a series of art directors whose tastes in. Youll see three book covers from each decade, and for each question you just need to. The images on the wrapping paper are a selection of penguin book covers. Penguin series design the art of penguin book covers. The book collections are housed in the national art library and include around books published by penguin.
Avid readers of voices of east anglia may remember that weve previously covered the work of psychedelic artist and designer alan aldridge in our post titled the man with kaleidoscope eyes here we take a look at aldridges book cover designs and artwork that he created during his time working for penguin. Thanks to facettis pictorial covers, penguin classics. High quality penguin books inspired canvas prints by independent artists and designers from around the world. See more ideas about nostalgic books, books, childhood. More than 75 years on, theyre as popular as ever, with some book jackets even making it onto tshirts, deck chairs, mugs and posters. Oct 28, 2006 his crime, in rieus eyes, was to replace the spartan jackets with a reproduction of a painting, chosen to reflect the theme of each book. Launched in 1935, penguin books aimed to bring serious softcovers to. But as it turns out, and even better, cover to cover tells the stories of dozens of the classic penguin covers from the past decade. The highcontrast art by chip kidd, who has also designed cover jackets for bret easton ellis, dean koontz, david sedaris, haruki marukami and others, was also carried over into marketing for the. There are some real gems included, but frankly far too few. Independent art hand stretched around super sturdy wood frames. Book cover designbook design poster designgraphic designvintage penguinscience magazinepenguin books.
Oct 30, 2012 penguin book covers through the years in pictures. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. Penguin classics has commissioned a series of cover illustrations. Okay, apart from the me loving your art part and the question about you doing other cover art, ignore my prior ask. One of penguin s strategies was to implement standardised designs for book covers. Oct 12, 2018 only a true bookworm can beat this book cover quiz.
Browsing for inspiration this morning, i came across this set of beautiful vintage psychology book covers by the ever so great publishing company penguin. By the mid 1960 s, this evolved in to a simpler girlish style, typified by the likes of british models like twiggy and jean shrimpton. Penguin book covers through the years in pictures books. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. See more ideas about penguin books, book cover design and book design. By the end of the 1960s penguin was in financial trouble, and several. They seem to be very popular art at the moment and penguin book cover art is definitely better than having empty frames. Hillary kelly is the digital media editor at the new republic.
The italian designer facetti was the head of penguin design from 1962 to 1971 and initiated the classic and timeless style of the 1960s. Just use a bunch of leftjustified helvetica or something. The orangeandcream design harks back to the covers used by penguin in the 1930s and again in the 1950s and 1960s. Two defining images early classic 1960s and late london look.
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