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the house of meetings by martin amis is on display at the museum's exhibition

Get inside the mind of Peter Mendelsund, the pianist who went from Tchaikovsky to Tolstoy and became one of the best book cover designers working today, with editor Zac Petit’s interview in Print‘s 75th Anniversary Issue. Brilliant book-jacket design autodidact Peter Mendelsund recently released two new titles of his own: Cover, a hefty monograph and look inside his Knopf work (from powerHouse Books), and What We See When We Read (Vintage), “a gorgeously unique, fully illustr

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an assortment of different colored cards with eye designs and words written on each one card

A couple weeks ago I saw an article about Peter Mendelsund’s new book on book cover design; and I scoffed. Now I just saw another article on Wired, shared by Tim Ferriss. Peter is obviously d…

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three books with different colored covers on the cover are lined up against a white wall

You're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but browsing the stacks of your local bookstore or public library, what makes you gravitate toward one one text over another? It could be the work of designers like Peter Mendelsund, whose new book "Cover" was released earlier this month.

a book with an eye on it and the title metamaphobia written in black

This week, we saw two alternate versions of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451 pop up on the Internet: one meant to be burned, and one meant to withstand burning at all costs. Though the cover we all grew up with is undeniably great, we…

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an image of some type of poster with different colors and shapes on it's sides

Simply put: I adore Vintage Classics. What is being sold on American bookshelves--I believe and witness--are an older line of production; recent but not the latest, which can be previewed on their website, linked above. But I'm positively in love with the cover designs; here are two themes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Minimalism F. Scott Fitzgerald: Lackadaisical From the Vintage Classics 2010 collection, I'm especially digging Vintage Hardy (simplistic lifestyle), Vintage Twain (carefree sketch)…

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