John Gall is the art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He redesign Vladimir Nabokov's book covers which I think is a really new and clever way of showing book covers and maybe a fresh idea for our poster project.
"Nabokov was a passionate butterfly collector, a theme that has cropped up on some of his past covers. My idea was also a play on this concept. Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects. Each box would be filled with paper, ephemera, and insect pins, selected to somehow evoke the book's content. And to make it more interesting for readers — and less daunting for me — I thought it would be fun to ask a group of talented designers to help create the boxes.
Here's who I asked: Chip Kidd, Carol Carson, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah, Rodrigo Corral, Martin Venezky, Charles Wilkin, Helen Yentus and Jason Booher, Peter Mendelsund, Sam Potts, Dave Eggers, Paul Sahre, Stephen Doyle, Carin Goldberg, Michael Bierut, Barbara de Wilde, and Marian Bantjes. The results are shown here. I hope you enjoy them." by John Gall
Here's who I asked: Chip Kidd, Carol Carson, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, Megan Wilson and Duncan Hannah, Rodrigo Corral, Martin Venezky, Charles Wilkin, Helen Yentus and Jason Booher, Peter Mendelsund, Sam Potts, Dave Eggers, Paul Sahre, Stephen Doyle, Carin Goldberg, Michael Bierut, Barbara de Wilde, and Marian Bantjes. The results are shown here. I hope you enjoy them." by John Gall
2 comments:
Very cool. I was just thinking of doing something like this for a print I made. Using the little pins to hold it up. I was inspired by an episode of Dirty Jobs where Mike was fooling with dung beetles.
I saw this as well this week. They are gorgeous and very inspirational, especially for our final project. Thanks for posting!
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