SLIDESHOW: Bookshelf porn
Ellie Robins
Ready your bibs, you’re about to drool. Over at the Guardian there’s a slideshow of some of the most beautiful bookshelves money can buy. Problem is, none of us has… Read more »
Ready your bibs, you’re about to drool. Over at the Guardian there’s a slideshow of some of the most beautiful bookshelves money can buy. Problem is, none of us has… Read more »
Ever more options for the self-publisher: the new service GetBookCover allows self-published authors to buy an image, add their title and captions using an in-browser editor, and generate and download… 3 / Read more »
In Homer’s Odyssey, when Odysseus returns home at last to Ithaca, his faithful dog Argos struggles to greet him. There the dog Argos lay in the dung, all covered with… Read more »
Sometimes when you set out to design a new book, you get lucky and nail it on your first try. Other times, it takes a long process to reach a… 2 / Read more »
To celebrate the release of Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham, Ian Albinson has created a montage homage to Bass’s film title sequences. By the… Read more »
Starting a new series design is always a fun challenge—each book in the series needs to stand on its own, but the set should add up to more than the… Read more »
“There’s something about red books,” writes Donna Liquori in a Times-Union essay, “For the holidays, a pile of old red books really complements an evergreen bough on a table or mantle… Read more »
This year marks the centennial of William Golding’s birth, and to celebrate, his publishers in the US and UK are releasing centenary editions of Lord of the Flies with a new… 1 / Read more »