June 25, 2010
Radical book covers
by Kelly Burdick
For the past few weeks, Josh Macphee over at Just Seeds has been publishing a great collection of anarchist and radical book covers in a blog series called “Judging Books by Their Covers.” There are a handful of Norwegian-published anarchist titles here; a cool set of Portuguese modernist book covers here; some work by the designer Flavio Costantini here; and a strange set of covers from a series of books published by the Liberation Support Movement, a Canadian group that focused on African liberation movements in the 1970s, here, here, and here. All are well worth a look.
According to Macphee: “I’ve been really digging designing book covers of late, which has made me look much closer at all the other covers I come across and already have on my shelf.”
Kelly Burdick is the executive editor of Melville House.