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Join NOW!Over at Mother Jones, graphic designer Christophe Gowans reimagines classic rock albums as book covers. He says: “I got to thinking, well, what would those records look like if they actually were books, if the name of the album was actually the title of a novel or reference book?”
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Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz on their long collaborative career designing for artists like John Lennon, the Talking Heads, and more.
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Mark Danielewski talks about the “maddening energy of violence” and why he’s writing a 27–volume novel, starting with his first 850-page installment in the series, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May.
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Painter and letterer Hannah Haugberg discusses the art of designing custom guitar pedals.
...moreWe all have a few Penguin books on our shelves, with their characteristic splash of orange and that cute little black-and-white Antarctic avian. But how well do you really know Penguin’s cover design? On her graphic-design blog Design Context, Lizzy Gosney sifts through seventy years of the publisher’s history to find all sorts of surprisingly […]
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