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bits January 30, 2024 at 02:55PM

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The Daily Heller: Milton’s Paradise Lost and Found – PRINT Magazine

“Milton Glaser: POP by Mirko Ilic, Beth Kleber and me showcases more than 1,000 pieces from the mid-1950s through the mid-’70s, including hundreds of book covers and jackets, many forgotten for decades. Rather than closing the book on Glaser’s “pop” era, our book opened the doors to further lost artifacts, now found. Ilic has continued to uncover the covers of more than a dozen books that were completely unknown to us as editors, and probably forgotten by Glaser himself.”

I Feel Like Starting With Some Art

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French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux unveiled a vibrant, seemingly infinite room in Tokyo to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Bulgari’s iconic coiled jewelry designs. The 50th work in the artist’s 100 colors series (previously), “SERPENTI” reflects timelessness and eternity through elaborate repetition and eternity through elaborate repetition, gradient hues, and a mirrors that transform a single corridor into a never-ending view.

Reflecting the brand’s roots in Rome, Moureaux installed more than 347,000 Roman numerals from 1 to 100—or I to C—onto 100 large, transparent panels, which are cut out in the middle so visitors can walk inside. The numerals are meticulously laid out on a grid to create an endless effect, increasing and changing color the further one ventures into the artwork.

Adam PendletonBlackness, White, and LightMUMOK, Vienna

March 31, 2023 – January 7, 2024

Eric C. Wilder is a freelance cover designer. He, along with designer Cherie Chapman, is co-founder of Chapman & Wilder, a studio specializing in book covers, interior layout, and marketing across all genres. Here he takes us through his process for designing the cover for Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost.

This is a great cover:

morning computer 13sep23

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I love this Jürgen Klauke image.

Marvellous book cover surfaced by the legendary designer Mike Dempsey:

Science meets psychedelic color in the 2022 Evident Image of the Year awards. From the vibrant, feather-like crystals of a topical medicine to the shimmering scales of a Urania ripheus moth, the winning works unveil a slew of vibrant, microscopic wonders found around the world. This year’s top image comes from molecular biologist Laurent Formery, who documented the spindly, spiky nervous system of a young sea star. Reaching approximately one centimeter wide, the minuscule specimen glows with kaleidoscopic hues under a color-coded Z-projection.

FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: A Cover You Have To Cut

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This is fascinating. The book Forgotten Heritage: Uncovering Singapore’s Traditional Chinese Puppets comes in a fabric case that you have to cut and unfold to begin the book. There’s a video at this link.

This is the sort of thing that keeps physical publishing a living and growing thing: you can’t download that tactile, revelatory experience. That would be an object to delight in owning and reading. I bet you some people buy two – one to cut and one to keep intact, as they both have their joys.

MITKY ASTROMOUSE, An Insane Book Cover

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This is a book cover. I discovered it on a Book Cover Review post, and hunted for a better image than they had. The post by Erik Carter includes interior images and more details.

While the cover is an absolute failure of marketing, it’s an absolute triumph of aesthetics and form. Edelmann is most known for being the art director on Yellow Submarine (the ground-breaking psychedelic Beatles animated film), but he had a long career as an illustrator, cover designer and educator working on everything from a German edition of The Lord of the Rings to illustrations for the youth magazine twen. The cover Edelmann designed for Mitkey Astromouse is a block of text typed in Othello describing the story, shouting out the authors, and rendering the title illegible with a colourful rainbow scribble. It’s hard to imagine such a design existing in 2023, or even in the 1970s, and it’s no wonder that the book became an obscure curio instead of a top-selling smash.

It’s kind of fascinating. I’ve been thinking for a while about text on covers – there were a couple of interesting examples in 2022 — and here’s one that’s right out on the edge.

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