I previously blogged about the forthcoming release of Penguin’s latest Great Ideas series. At the time, they were only giving us as preview of the first ten books, but Penguin have since unveiled all 20 covers in the set, and they look a little bit like this:
Once again, I’m hugely impressed by the work of [...]
For anybody not familiar with the Penguin Great Ideas series, it’s a series which brings together some of the most influential texts ever made, from the minds of the worlds greatest thinkers; from Confucius and Plato, to Darwin, Rousseau, Woolf and Orwell, to name just a few. They’re the kind of books that you would [...]
As far as I can tell, every classical music album comes with terrible packaging design as standard. A mix of horrendous typography, accompanied by generic photographs of instruments, composers, or in the worst cases, both. These are some of the most amazing, most celebrated pieces of music ever made, so why don’t they deserve good [...]
Illustration is an area of design that I have become particularly interested in over recent years, and one of the first illustrators that I really admired was Mr. Bingo, who became famous for his Hair Portraits, depicting people/characters by drawing nothing but their hair. The results are humorous, and I’d never seen anything quite like [...]