Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Big Head

Here's a beautiful set of covers for the work of Oliver Sacks, from Vintage US. The designs are by Cardon Webb. Click for enbiggening.



(seen first at John Gall's blog)
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7 comments:

  1. Meytal Radzinski26 July 2011 at 20:52

    I like that the placement of Sacks' name changed when appropriate, but the size remained consistent... quite neat.

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  2. Craig D.27 July 2011 at 12:11

    This is cruel. My OCD would make me buy them all that once for completion's sake.

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  3. Carin Siegfried27 July 2011 at 12:19

    This is so cool! I have seen a couple of these books but had no idea the cover designs all went together to make a bigger picture! I hope some creative bookstore has figured out a way to display them so customers can see this.

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  4. JRSM27 July 2011 at 15:29

    Biblibio: good point--consistency, but not so rigid that it wrecks each cover's own ideal design.

    They definitely cry out to be displayed like this. And I want all 6 too!

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  5. Craig D.28 July 2011 at 12:03

    I actually prefer something like this, with the picture forming on the spines, since you can actually see it when they’re lined up on a bookshelf:

    http://tal.forum2.org/images/70.jpg

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  6. JRSM28 July 2011 at 15:37

    Yes, that can work really well: see the Casanova spines here (http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2007/12/casanovas-spines.html).

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  7. Stuart Bache1 August 2011 at 13:46

    I absolutely adore these. I have the urge to buy them, then frame and position them on my wall.

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