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Eye Catching Book Cover
Posted by achristophe in
16 Jan 2009 — 10:22am
16 Jan 2009 — 10:22am
This book is just a book about children's book cover designs. I think this book cover is eye catching. It caught my eye the second I seen it. The cover is basically a photogragh of different children's books. The artists of the covers wanted to use many colors to catch the eye. I think they were successful at doing so.
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16 Jan 2009 — 9:56pm
I haven't read this book, but the same author wrote another book previously (one I have read), called Front Cover, which is a nice collection/history of book covers from Great Britain and the U.S.
Typographica reviewed that one here.
18 Jan 2009 — 12:08pm
this is a cool cover...also great use of type to go along
with it...century schoolbook feel...
19 Jan 2009 — 11:37am
Is there really a children's book version of the Iliad?
19 Jan 2009 — 12:25pm
LOL! I remember reading a prose adaption of The Odyssey when I was in grade school...
22 Jan 2009 — 7:40pm
This Iliad and Odyssey is illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen and is, IMO, one of the greatest feats of book illustration ever accomplished. Unfortunately, the scans I made from this book all seem to be gone from my hard drive and I am on my way out.
There is a website that features some of the illustrations here. Unfortunately the site cannot show you the brilliant integration of images and text as they appear in the book. The lettering is also outstanding—they had to do this separately for all the languages (at least English, German, and French).
Edit: I found one scan of part of one of the illustrations from the German edition: