Thursday, 11 February 2010

A Book That Looks Like a Device Trying to be a Book

I like the circularity of this design: it's a book that looks like a device that's trying to be a book.

 

(Spotted in this photo of The Bookseller Crow's window display, and it fooled me at first (surely they're not selling Kindles, I thought to myself.). You can also buy it as a ebook, so you can read a fake of a real book on your fake imitator of real books.)

UPDATE: The ever-wise Alan Trotter informs me that the designer is Olly Moss.
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9 comments:

  1. Cara Sheppard11 February 2010 at 20:07

    Ha! Fantastic!

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  2. veritas11 February 2010 at 21:29

    my LORD. the cover is actually, heaven forbid, BETTER designed than the American one. that is rare...

    what an amazing cover.

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  3. Alan12 February 2010 at 03:08

    It's cool, isn't it? The designer's Olly Moss, who did those excellent video games as book covers based on Romek Marber's Penguin grid.

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  4. Anonymous12 February 2010 at 17:58

    It LOOKS like tasty reading indeed. Is it? Such a clever cover is a hard match for any text that follows it.

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  5. JRSM12 February 2010 at 23:50

    I have to admit I haven't read it--or even seen it in a shop yet. But I am intrigued. And Alan, thank you for the link--I'll add the info to the post. And it is much better than the US cover, isn't it?

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  6. gen_a13 February 2010 at 07:02

    veritas speaks the truth (strange that!). I got a copy of the US version and it's ugly as hell.

    The book itself definitely lives up to the hype surrounding it. Very timely stuff. A humanist call to arms.

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  7. StuckInABook14 February 2010 at 13:03

    I love this idea!

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  8. Levi Stahl28 February 2010 at 14:48

    This is a book that has been saved for me by the reviews: enough interesting, thoughtful people have described it well that I will probably read it--and it's a book I would never have touched had I based my decision solely on the title and subject; I would have assumed it was another fogeyish rant about how technology sucks. I mean, I'm not much of a tech guy despite the blogging, but I also don't need people telling me again and again that the telephone/radio/movies/tv/the Internet are going to ruin everything--but this book seems to be much smarter than that. In other words, good job, review community!

    And, yes, that cover is awesome.

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  9. JRSM28 February 2010 at 16:55

    I know what you mean--I too assumed it was a on-enote rant, but it seems to be a lot more thoughtful and nuanced.

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