This new ad campaign for Penguin Classics is lovely. (More here.)
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Book lust (a continuing series)
Concept design by Elizabeth Perez for Fahrenheit 451. “The book’s spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.” Very cool.
Categories: Books · Design Tags: book covers · book lust · graphic design · Ray Bradbury
1984 recovered
New cover treatment for Orwell’s 1984 by David Pearson. See all five of Pearson’s designs for Penguin’s George Orwell series here. (A bit more information is here.) The last image, with the title entirely cut out, was Pearson’s initial concept, rejected by Penguin for cost reasons.
Categories: Books · Design Tags: book covers · David Pearson · George Orwell
Graying Obama
New Bloomberg Businessweek cover, out today, imagines Obama’s appearance in 2016.
Categories: Design Tags: Barack Obama · magazines · politics
Marilyn
The official poster for the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Categories: Design · Movies Tags: advertising · Marilyn Monroe · posters
Ad of the day
Cool print ad campaign for the chamber orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker featuring expansive photos of the cramped spaces inside musical instruments. More images here. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
Categories: Design · Music Tags: advertising · posters
The Shape of Things to Come
Braun T3 pocket radio (1958) and first-generation iPod (2001) (not to scale).
The influence of Dieter Rams’ designs on Apple has been widely noted, for example here and here. A better view of the Braun T3 is here.
Categories: Design Tags: Apple · Dieter Rams · minimalism
Think Different, cont’d
Poster from Apple’s Think Different campaign (1998).
Categories: Design · Sports Tags: advertising · Apple · Muhammad Ali · posters · Think Different
Ali for Apple
Think Different 15-second TV ad, 1997
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Think Different, cont’d
Poster from Apple’s Think Different campaign (1997).
Categories: Design · Photography Tags: advertising · Amelia Earhart · Apple · posters · Think Different
Paul Rand for Ford
Proposed logo for Ford, designed by Paul Rand, 1966. Details here.
Categories: Design Tags: cars · Ford · graphic design · logos · minimalism · Paul Rand
Moby reimagined
Book cover concept by Matt Roeser (via nevver). Great.
Categories: Books · Design Tags: book covers · Moby Dick
You are what you read
Wonderful ad for a bookstore in Lithuania called Mint Vinetu. (Via Quipsologies.)
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