I absolutely love these. They work as a series, with the limited palette, bold shapes, unflashy (but attractive) type and big fields of solid colour common to all. But then each author also gets their own identity within the series. The Kurkovs play wittily (and Saul Bass-ily) with the dinner-suit/penguin association, and the Derek Raymonds are just brilliant, reminiscent of old Romek Marber crime novel covers for Penguin.
I could kiss this publisher.
UPDATE: Kelly Blair did the Jakob Arjouni covers, and Christopher King did the Derek Raymond covers.
amazing. That last one with the paper woman is a terrific idea. The key with the bullet hole and the shattered plate—priceless, strong graphics. Who is doing these? They feel european.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Many of these are great.
ReplyDeleteBoth of Andrey Kurkov's Penguin books are great, and these new covers are very accurate. New translations as well?
ReplyDeleteWow, how bad do I wanna read "More Beer?" Thanks for these. Superhot.
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Death and the Penguin! And more Kurkov! Awesome covers, all of these.
ReplyDeleteThe Derek Raymond covers are lurid and clever. Love em.
ReplyDeleteMelvile publisher Dennis Johnson tells me that Kelly Blair did the Jakob Arjouni covers, and Christopher King did the Derek Raymond covers (I'll add this to the post).
ReplyDeleteThe Kurkov translations are the George Bird versions originally published in the UK. I'm not sure about the "Turk" books.